Are Certified Professional Midwives properly trained?

The statistics for Certified Professional Midwives, CPMs, are excellent in comparison to Certified Nurse Midwives, CNMs, who also have superior statistics. And all midwives have excellent statistics compared to physicians when each profession helps low risk women. Direct entry midwives prepare for a test by either apprenticeship or by a nationally recognized college. Before qualifying […]

The ethics of intuition

Clare and I were talking today at Kat Man Do on Grand in St. Paul (eat there, its spicy and delicious!). When a mother calls me to help with her birth, I occasionally get a premonition of how it will go. Not in detail, but enough. It might be a split second view or a […]

March 9th March

Better Birth. Lower Cost. Join the Minnesota Better Birth Coalition Facebook group. We’ll be marching to our state Capitol by noon on Monday, March 9th, 2009 with signs and strollers and slings. Several birth, postpartum, and early parenting groups are united for bringing about cost saving legislation that will improve birth outcomes for mothers and […]

Riverview

My comadres are at the Riverview watching the inauguration on the big theater screen. My comadres are my two midwife partners, Emme Corbeil, CPM and Clare Welter, CNM. Emme took this photo of the full house at Riverview. I’m home working on a new and upcoming website, MinnesotaBirth.com (not on line yet), and waiting for […]

Happy New Year with Orgasmic Birth!

20/20 started the New Year right with Debra Pascali Bonaro presenting Orgasmic Birth. I hope the benefits to the nation are as great as they have been locally since Debra was here on Sept. 25, 08 to present her film at the Riverview Theater to a very nearly full house. Congratulations to 20/20 for getting […]