ThinkBirth

 Our ABC is investigating giving birth in Australia! Despite Australia having one of the lowest maternal and infant mortality rates in the w...

The emotional work of being with women is immense and what we see and come to embody is that birth is now a battle ground, leaving bruis...

I was alerted by a friend on facebook, to this article Bystanding Behaviour in Midwifery, about the way midwives don't stand up for wom...

My last meeting with the lovely midwifery students I've been working with in Papua New Guinea is this morning.  Pacific Adventist ...

I always enjoy Maria Popover's links and articles. Her Blog  has fascinating and often obscure articles which are relevant to my inter...

Birth is amazing. Women's embodied wisdom about birth is brilliant and babies ability to be born is stunning. Both geniuses come toget...

YouTube - OB patient There is a rash of these mini movies. Clever, 'funny' (?) and short. Humour is a great way of getting a mes...

An article on the Bioethics Forum highlighted the way that medical jargon and a 'scientific' approach can be used to obscure ethical...

Trust, Power and Agency in Childbirth: Women’s relationships with obstetricians. This great article by Monica Campo, a feminist sociologist...

In the latest New Scientist (19th May 2010), an article by John Casti , Senior Research Scholar and a futurist ( castiwien@cs.com ) based at...

When I did my midwifery training in the 70's, the Cardiff Infusion pump was used to induce labour. The women were placed flat on their b...

The shocking deaths within the last six months of two child brides from the Yemmen ,one from s exual intercourse related haemorrhage five da...

Writing Speeches For The Government MYLES PETERSON February 21, 2010 Midway through last year I was...

On the 18th February, 2010 in 14 locations across Australia, 1000's of people rallied to register their protest at the Rudd Government p...

Founders of British obstetrics 'were callous murderers' | UK news | The Observer "They are giants of medicine, pioneers of ...