Tagged: Midwifery

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WHO Year of the Nurse and Midwife: Review of A Midwife’s Tale

Surely no discussion of midwifery and Mormons would be complete without a nod to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s classic A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary 1785-1812.  The dates alone should signal...

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Birth/Rebirth: The Call of Midwifery

Guest Post by Sara Sara, a native of San Francisco, is currently living in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is working as a midwife’s apprentice as she completes her specialization at the Midwives College...

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Birth/Rebirth: Welcome baby, you are home.

One of the first times someone asked me to recount my daughter’s birth, I started to speak, and then without meaning to, I started to weep. It was difficult to remember something that was...

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Women and the Power to Heal

by Jessawhy Less than two weeks ago, my sister gave birth to her first child, a beautiful baby girl. Although I have three sons of my own, I’ve never witnessed a birth (not even...