Archive Jan. 9, 2010: Women's Healthcare Around the World

The pictures above are from the Mountain Midwifery birth center I had the privilege of visiting during the American Association of Birth Centers conference in December. The Denver, Colorado birth center is run by a dynamic midwife and business man couple who are passionate about wellness and empowering women during their pregnancy and birth experiences. The conference provided me with valuable insights into the inner-workings how a quality birth center should actually begin!

UK

MIDIRS a UK-based educational charity that requested midwife student submissions- Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing then sent out an email to its students and I sent in a submission- they were gracious enough to publish it in their January edition. Please feel free to check out the story entitled ‘Peace-bearer- A birth story from Bucharest, Romania’

http://www.midirs.org/development/MIDIRSEssence.nsf/articles/3BDF38D83C0C651D80257689004EA228

Bucharest, Romania

The first potential planned home-birth (that I know of) may be coming up around the corner. A qualified midwife and I have agreed to attend a healthy, first-time mom in her home when she gives birth. This mom will also have the support of her best friend who is a midwife student in Bucharest and her husband. I will update you as soon as those rushes begin...