Continuity the key to contentment. (Midwifery).
The saying that a mother never forgets her midwife may well be true in the light of a recent project conducted at Flinders Medical Centre (FMC). The pilot program run by FMC and the University of South Australia - which enabled mothers to see the same midwife...

Service improves indigenous outcomes. (Midwifery).
More Victorian Aboriginal women are using maternity services to deliver better birth outcomes for both themselves and their babies, according to Victorian Health Minister John Thwaites. Mr Thwaites said the first statewide evaluation of the Koori maternity services in Victoria program which provides support to women in...

George W. Bush: can't live with him, can live without him.
There's hardly an issue, environmental or otherwise, where Bush administration rhetoric isn't almost diametrically opposite to its actual policies and practices. deed, when it comes to appearance versus reality, Bush has taken Orwell's 1984 to a whole new level. Almost nowhere is this more true than in...

Stands up for birth.
For centuries, women have been active during labor. Upright postures and movement throughout labor are often a woman's natural choice. It is only in recent history that medical practice has resigned women to static, reclined positions in labor. With this approach, slow and painful labors, cases of celphalopelvic disproportion,...

March 15 Panel to Focus on Family Planning.
PHILADELPHIA, March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Congressman James C. Greenwood (R-PA) will be one of the panelists at a special program sponsored by the YWCA of Philadelphia and the Women's Rights Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association, in cooperation with the Population Resource Center, on Thursday, March 15,...

Letters to the editor.
Email us! The ANJ welcomes letters via email. Contributions of no more than 300 words should be sent to: anj@anf.org.au Not all perioperative areas are like this After reading 'Unfriendly environments discourage newcomers', (ANJ, July 2002, p.4)1 would like to reassure the writer that not...

Exhibition to mark midwifery centenary.
ONE HUNDRED years of midwifery registration, regulation and education will be marked by a year-long exhibition at Archives New Zealand in Wellington. A collaborative venture with Victoria University's Graduate School of Nursing and Midwifery, the exhibition will open next month and will focus on significant changes in...

Toward a New Foreign Policy.
Sound population policies focus not so much on discouraging reproduction but rather on access to critical services that make reproduction health, y, safe, and intentional for all people. This requires universal access both to information and to a range of choices and means for planning pregnancy, supplemented by a...

Regional Notes.
MOUNTAIN REGION Report submitted by Deanna Finney, Regional Director. On September 9-10 the Idaho Childbirth & Parenting Educators organization sponsored a workshop featuring a few local practitioners and, on a national level, Penny Simkin. The emphasis of the workshop was "More Than the Birth of...

Midwives Under Fire.
Quick! What is the world's oldest profession? The answer is almost certainly midwifery. By providing comfort, care, and safety for other women during the natural processes of pregnancy and childbirth, wise women known as midwives have been an integral part of women's health services from the beginning of recorded...