Birth Professionals

NZ Midwifery Build Strong Partnership Flier

Please adapt this flier for your own practice.  Every pregnant woman is in partnership with her maternity provider whether the...

2015 New Zealand Maternity Report

Has The New Zealand Midwifery Model Of Care Failed? .. No … Ah … There’s An Easy Gap To Fill

Facebook is SO interesting. Only a few people read our post on A COUNTRY WITH MIDWIVES, CHOICE, INFORMED CONSENT AND...

Has The New Zealand Of Midwifery Care Failed … Yes … Ah … No .. There’s a Gap That is Easy To Fill

Facebook is SO interesting. Only a few people read our post on A COUNTRY WITH MIDWIVES, CHOICE, INFORMED CONSENT AND...

New Zealand … A Country With Midwives, Choice, Informed Consent, and Home Birth … What Could Go Wrong?

While so many have and continue to struggle for political change in maternity care, let’s look at a country that...

Why Midwifery Alone Can Not Solve Childbirth Issues

All these posts are attempting to do one thing … grow a Skills-based approach to all pregnancies and every birth....

Birth Choices And Birth Plans Have Failed Maternity Staff

In the US birth staff used to be exclusively obstetrical nurses. Now there are Nurse Midwives. In most other modern...

Birth Plans And Birth Choices Have Failed Midwives

Regardless of how you feel about childbirth issues: home vs hospital, natural vs medical the majority of expectant families would...

Birth Plans And Birth Choices Have Failed Obstetricians

How does The Choice-based childbirth trend impact obstetricians? That’s an interesting question. There’s a marriage between all doctors and patients/clients/consumers....

How Midwives Can Help Grow A Self-Learning Skilled Birthing Population

In the last few posts and this one we’ve discussed the role of those dedicated women (mostly women) who love...

How Doulas Can Help Grow A Self-Learning Skilled Birthing Population

Most expectant families are not interested in or know about the history of childbirth trends in the US or in...

How Childbirth Educators Can Grow A Self-Learning Skilled Birthing Population

n the 1960s/70s the newly formed childbirth education/preparation classes were all centered on teaching Lamaze breathing and relaxation techniques. Then...

Choice-based Childbirth Fails Too Many Midwives

Before the next post why many choices -few skills fail babies, I want to ask you to envision these scenarios...

Midwives Can Lead BirthingBetter The Way To A Powerful Change In Childbirth

Growing a skilled birthing population What is a Skills-based childbirth trend and why do we absolutely need one?  Since the...

Birth Professionals Are Frustrated With Childbirth Too!

There’s an imbalance in childbirth.  Everyone knows that and you as a Doctor, Obstetrician, CNM or Direct Entry Midwife and...