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Midwifery Education: Trauma or Transformation?
In the early 1990’s, two events prompted me to revise my goals as a midwifery educator. First, a prominent California midwife and dear friend who, after considerable legal harassment, felt forced to become a nurse-midwife, shared her bitter experience of retraining. She was so …
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Intuition and Birth
An excerpt from Orgasmic Birth: Your Guide to a Safe, Satisfying, and Pleasurable Birth Experience, by Elizabeth Davis and Debra Pascali-Bonaro, Rodale Press: New York, 2010. "I love and respect birth. The body is a temple, it creates its own rites, its own prayers...all we must …
Blood Mysteries
Excerpted from:The Women's Wheel of Life by Elizabeth Davis and Carol Leonard Blood Mysteries | Menarche Rite | Order Mystery is defined as that which is beyond understanding, that which baffles or perplexes, that which is profound and known only by revelation. When we …
The Sexuality of Pregnancy & Birth
An excerpt from The Rhythms of Women's Desire: How Female Sexuality Unfolds at Every Stage of Life by Elizabeth Davis, Hunter House Publishers, 2013 The First Trimester | The Second Trimester | The Third Trimester Birth as a Sexual Event Chapter Four: The Sexuality of …