Our Nelson Charitable Trust, Common Knowledge Trust is inviting 100-150 NZ midwives to participate in a unique 2-year training of the benefits of growing a skilled birthing population for all families, every birth … no matter where the birth takes place, who is...
We love our NZCOM midwives By now all of you know New Zealand is the ONLY country in the whole-wide-world with a 24/7 continuity of care Midwifery Partnership. Our Nelson-based Charitable, Common Knowledge, has worked in New Zealand since 1996 to grow a skilled...
Update: August 2019: The below Give-A-Little Fund-raising is closed. We hope you’ll still support our Trust’s efforts by clicking the above ‘donate’ button and help us grow a global skilled birthing population. The Concept is global. We need...
This post is for childbirth nerds who have a fascination with childbirth histories. We are where we are because we’ve done what we’ve done. Childbirth trends are very new because modernity is very new. Our modern world is very different from our many...
Birthing Better skills developed in the early 1970s when three skills-based childbirth methods had been well known in the US from the 1950s: Grantly Dick-Read, Lamaze, and Bradley Method. These methods focused on three specific goals: Natural birth Pain-free labour...
Learn from the Brant Study 1961 NZ Brant childbirth study In 2015 I found a notation referencing this important and obscure NZ study in The Trouble With Women. The study was hard to track down and am so glad I succeeded. When I read the full study, I could now tie...
