A woman's confidence in her ability to cope appears to influence her experience of labor pain more than any other factor.

An in-depth review of the literature reveals strong support for redefining the second stage of labor and decreasing the duration of time pregnant women are instructed to push.

What is the optimal maternal position in the second stage of labor?

In 2003, I had the privilege of attending the Cochrane Colloquium in Lyon, France. This is the annual meeting of the Cochrane Collaboration, an international, non-profit organization which makes available up-to-date, reliable information about the effects of interventions used for prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation in health care.

Summary of a presentation by Leah Albers, CNM, DrPH ath the 46th ACNM Annual Meeting

The pregnancy test is just the first in a long line of tests that inhabit the world of pregnancy.

in response to the debate on "Good Morning America"

The Art of Doing "Nothing" Well: What Makes Midwives Different. Results of a Delphi study by Holly Powell Kennedy, CNM, PhD, FACNM

Documentary from October 23, 2000 on PBS.

Does it really matter how we are born and what happens to us around the time of birth? Coming from me or any midwife, this is of course a rhetorical question. Of course it matters.