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Question CPD

Birth As We Know It

The Business of Being Born

Interview with Ricki Lake ("Business of Being Born")

Interview with Ricki Lake II

The Right to Breastfeed

A Birth Video Collection

Interview with Jennifer Block

The Baby Book

Birth Reborn

Birth Without Violence

Birthing Normally

Childbirth at Home

Childbirth with Insight

The Continuum Concept

Creating Your Birth Plan

Crying Baby Sleepless Nights

Diaper Free!

Encyclopedia of Childbearing: Critical Perspectives

Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Year

The Family Bed

Feed Your Kids Right

Heart and Hands: A Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth

The Home Birth Book

How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk

Let's Have Healthy Children

Making Love During Pregnancy

Mothering the Mother

The Nurturing Touch at Birth: A Labor Support Handbook

The Pregnant Woman's Comfort Guide

Pregnant Feelings

Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care

Article about Pushed

Book Review of Pushed

Sharing Birth

Silent Knife

Spiritual Midwifery

Take Charge of Your Child's Health

Understanding Diagnostic Tests in the Childbearing Year

--Diabetes tests, ultrasound, amniocentesis, non-stress test, fetal scalp sampling, newborn jaundice, and much more.

When Men are Pregnant

When Survivors Give Birth

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Womanly Art of Breastfeeding

Articles

Articles on Pushed.com

"The Active Management of Labour"

"The All-Fours Maneuver for Reducing Shoulder Dystocia During Labor"

"An Update on Breastfeeding"

"Anthropological Perspectives on Global Issues in Midwifery"

"The Bristol Third-Stage Trial"

"Bottle Feeding or Breastfeeding?"

"Cesarean Birth in a Culture of Fear"

"Choosing Caesarean Section"

"Circumcision--An Impact on Your Son's Life"

"The Clock, the Bed, the Chair"

Cord Clamping,& the importance of delaying it

"Crying for Comfort:Distressed Babies Need to Be Held"

"C-Sections, Breastfeeding and Bugs For Your Baby--What the doctor probably won't tell you" (click on "Pregnancy and Birth")

"Cue Feeding: Wisdom and Science"

"Cytotec Induction and Off-Label Use"

"Ecstatic Birth: Nature's Hormonal Blueprint for Labor"

"8 Infant Sleep Facts Every Parent Should Know"

"Foetal Heart in Second Stage"

"Fish Can't See Water: The Need to Humanize Birth"

"Gestational Diabetes: The Emperor Has No Clothes"

"Getting a Good Night's Sleep: Another Perspective"

"Getting What You Want for Your Birth Experience"

"Greed vs Health: Which Will Win?"

"Healing the Trauma: Entering Motherhood with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)"

"Home Birth--Why It's Necessary"

"Hospital Births and Academic Performance: Is There a Connection?"

"If your baby is breech"

"Kangaroo Care: Why Does It Work?"

"Leaving Well Alone: A Natural Approach to the Third Stage of Labour"

"Lessons from a Homebirth Practice"

"Let the Baby Decide: The Case Against Inducing Labor"

"The Maximin Strategy in Modern Obstetrics"

See full article here.

"Media Release: LLLI Responds to AAP Policy Statement on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome"

"Medically Unnecessary Cesarean Section Births"

"Medications Used in Labor: Their Effects on Mother and Newborn"

"Midwifery Guidelines Response" (Dr. John Stevenson)

"Misoprostol (Cytotec) for Labor Induction: A Cautionary Tale"

"Oral Aversion in the Breastfed Neonate"

"Pacifiers: Yes or No?"

"Pain in Labour: Your Hormones are Your Helpers"

"Questions about Prenatal Ultrasound and the Alarming Increase in Autism"

"Reinstating Women's Time in Childbirth"

"Sleep Training: Not for Breastfeeding Mothers"

"The Safety of Home Birth: The Farm Study"

"Separated at Birth" (Circumcision and sexual satisfaction)

Similarities between infant male circumcision and FGM

"The Technocratic Body: American Childbirth as Cultural Expression"

"The Technocratic, Humanistic, and Holistic Paradigms of Childbirth"

"Technology in Birth: First Do No Harm"

"The Third Stage of Labour"

"Three Surprise Breeches"

"Treating Group B Strep: Are Antibiotics Necessary?"

"Trusting Birth Even More"

"Ultrasound: More Harm than Good?"

"Ultrasound Scans--Cause for Concern"

"Ultrasound: Weighing the Propaganda Against the Facts"

"Unveiling Ritual Mutilation"

"The Use of Male Circumcision to Prevent HIV Infection"

"Using Homeopathy in Pregnancy"

"Vaccination Statistics"

"We Can Improve Primal Health"

"What Every Midwife Should Know About ACOG and VBAC"

"What is Elimination Communication?"

"When Research is Flawed: Critiques of Influential Research Studies"

"Why Midwifery?"

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