The Virtual International Day of the Midwife is this wonderful concept in which midwives and interested hangers-on all over the world can join together electronically. For 24 hours speaker after speaker presents work, takes comments and questions and thoughts on a live chat, and a world of midwifery is united. I was invited to present my work on "Risk" and the presentation was recorded. I encourage you to look through the program, see which presentations are of interest.
To go to the general home page, click here.
To see my presentation, click here.
Showing posts with label midwifery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label midwifery. Show all posts
More on Risk
The Midwives Alliance of North America just published its studies on 'statistical outcomes' of Home Birth
“Outcomes
of Care for 16,924 Planned Home Births in the United States: The
Midwives Alliance of North America Statistics Project, 2004 to 2009“.
in the Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health, and Lamaze
International's blog 'Science and Sensibility' asked me to write
something about home birth and risk. The comments, no surprise, quickly
veered off into stuff about selfish mothers risking their babies
lives to have scented-candle-births, and people shouting statistics of
risk at each other.
Oh well....
If you missed the link to my piece in the above, click here.
Midwifery, Nutrition, and Public Health
I've been teaching in Maternal and Child Health, under the discipline of Public Health for a while now, and continually bothered by the direction much of public health has taken. It seems to me much of the field is about public education on matters of health and medicine, and an enormous push to get more people to more medical services more regularly. That's not what I thought public health was supposed to be about. When Ruth Deery and Lorna Davies sent me their volume on nutrition in pregnancy and childbirth and asked me to do a foreword, it gave me a moment of clarity on how we ought to be doing public health and how clinicians ought to be doing public education. And it reminded me how much I love midwifery.
Read my foreword to Ruth Deery and Lorna Davies, editors, Nutrition in Pregnancy and Childbirth, Taylor and Francis, forthcoming, here.
Read my foreword to Ruth Deery and Lorna Davies, editors, Nutrition in Pregnancy and Childbirth, Taylor and Francis, forthcoming, here.
Midwifery Skills: On Expertise and Craft
Ever since my first Food Studies conference, I've been struck by the similarities between artisanal food makers and midwives. And jealous of how successful the food people have been, compared to the birth folk, in making their world-view understandable to the general public. Here's the start of my attempt to do that, published in the British MIDIRS, midwifery information and resource services.
To read MIDIRS's Facebook post about this article, click here.
To read the article itself, click here.
Human Rights in Childbirth: a conference in the Hague.
For those who care about midwifery and home birth, the Netherlands has stood as a beacon of sanity, a light in the darkness, a ray of hope. When all over the world midwives lost the power of an independent profession and became some kind of nurse or physician-extender, Dutch midwives remained Midwives. When all over the world, women moved into hospitals for birth, Dutch women stayed home. The story is more complicated (all stories always are) but over and over again, those of us arguing for home birth and for midwives turned to the Netherlands. And we still do, but.... it's getting a bit precarious over there. The home birth rate is down and dropping, the midwives are finding the appeal of shift work and turning over all the complicated cases to the doctors, the doctors are pushing for more control, the women are watching the same television as everyone else and expecting to be in agony and rescued by epidurals. As midwives around the world face various forms of state-control, dramatically shown in the recent case of Agnes Gereb who was arrested for doing home births in Hungary, we turn, yet again to the Dutch, and hope they rise to the occasion.
To learn about the conference, click here.
To read my contribution to the conference, click here.
To learn about the conference, click here.
To read my contribution to the conference, click here.
Talk: Splashing in New Waters: Beyond Second Wave Feminism
The first-ever joint conference of the Midwives Alliance of North America, the Canadian Association of Midwives and the American College of Nurse Midwives took place in Niagara Falls in November 2011. I was present at the first-ever MANA conference (still have the t shirt!) and have been at most of the ones since. It is one of the great honors and joys of my life that I was invited to do a plenary presentation at this meeting. Talks are flexible, things come up, and I never could or would give a written-out version of a talk. But here's the gist of what I had to say.
Talk: Midwives as Artisanal Workers
I've been working on this paper over the past year, presenting versions of it to the Japanese Midwives Association, to the Canadian Association of Midwives and to the Midwives Alliance of North America. This is an abstract, just something to get us started on rethinking how we talk about midwifery.
Click here to view paper.
Click here to view paper.
Seminar: Midwifery Practice, Education and Artistry
Seminar at University of Technology Sydney (UTS) for midwives, professionals, researchers and educators involved in maternity care.
Speakers: Barbara Katz Rothman and Holliday Tyson
View full leaflet for the UTS event here.
Speakers: Barbara Katz Rothman and Holliday Tyson
View full leaflet for the UTS event here.
Article: Daughters of Time
Article by BKR originally written for the book Paths to Becoming a Midwife: Getting an Education (1998). It also appeared in the journal Midwifery Today, Issue 49 (Spring 1999).
Read the article here.
Read the article here.
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