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How to prepare when birth is imminent. On waiting... My dearest friend Anadi was due this past week. Baby has other ideas, as they often do...

Bonding With Your Baby: an imperative for the 21 st Century Deliberate, mindful bonding with your baby is no longer a warm, fuzzy, feel...

I got the call to meet one of my ladies at a hospital across town early one morning. She had all the signs of early labor: sporadic contract...

I cannot take credit for this chapter’s title. It was coined in the 2 nd half of the 20th century in England, and later quoted in Materna...

…where we often have little or no control, where we are wading into uncharted territory, where the rules might change at any minute, and w...

What a midwife should not do: A lesson in destroying bonding. I was in midwifery training, doing my internship on the Texas – Mexico b...

I have dedicated my next book called,  PUSH! The Sequel  to the brave, revolutionary young families of the Muntele Rece district of Cluj-Nap...

I didn't write this one, but everyone should read it once. It is priceless. by Emily Perl Kingsley, 1987 I am often asked to desc...

The Hutterites are an interesting group of folks, cousins to the Amish, and Mennonites, ...well, sort of. All three can be lumped into ...