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The Well-Woman Checkup
The Well Woman Checkup (Unedited Prerecorded Program) What is the experienced care provider looking for when she's doing those urine strips, palpating the uterus and taking blood pressure / pulse? This presentation dissects the prenatal checkup and explores the rationale behind each routine … [Read More...]

Childhood Vaccination: Questions All Parents Should Ask
The issue of childhood vaccinations is quickly becoming "the" health issue of the 21st century. As the number of children with autism, juvenile diabetes, allergies, asthma, learning disorders, ADD/ADHD and other chronic illnesses reaches epidemic proportions, parents (and scientists) are becoming … [Read More...]

Afterbirth: Cord Clamping and Other Third Stage Issues
Featuring the normal processes that happen immediately after birth (third stage) for mother and baby, Sarah J. Buckley examines the impact of interventions such as cord clamping and Pitocin injections, and offers suggestions for optimizing this time for mother and baby. This program includes a … [Read More...]
Recorded Programs (Series)

The Intact Boy
Medicalized (non-religious) circumcision, an invention of English-speaking physicians, is in steep decline everywhere in the world — except for the United States. Join Marilyn Milos, RN; Ronald Goldman, Ph.D.; Gillian Longley, RN, BSN; and Miriam Pollack in a critical examination of the practice of infant male circumcision in North America.
Gentle Birth: The Science and the Wisdom
Sarah J Buckley, MD, family physician, mother of four and author of the internationally-acclaimed book Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering will present Gentle Birth: The Science and the Wisdom, a series of lectures on the natural processes of birth, and the impact of interventions in pregnancy and birth on mothers and babies. These ground-breaking lectures, based […]
Essentials of Maternal-Infant Care
Join Gloria Lemay, celebrated traditional birth attendant and childbirth educator, in a series of 12 online programs for professionals and students who wish to expand their knowledge and skills, and delve into issues that arise repeatedly in clinical practice. This series is also valuable for parents who want to be fully informed about their choices […]
Resources
How Circumcision Affects Sexuality
Circumcision is a primal wound that causes pain and trauma to an infant’s penis–his organ of pleasure and procreation. Initially, circumcision … [Read More...]
Women and Child Abuse
Simkin, Penny and Klaus, Phyllis, When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects of Early Sexual Abuse on Childbearing … [Read More...]
Transforming the Legal Profession & the Legal System
Glendon, Mary Ann, A Nation Under Lawyers: How the Crisis in the Legal Profession is Transforming American Society. Harvard University Press, … [Read More...]
Informative, Accurate & Supportive Books and Other Resources
Arms, Suzanne, Immaculate Deception and Immaculate Deception II Baker, Janine Parvati, Prenatal Yoga and Natural Birth Block, Jennifer, … [Read More...]
Health Care System (General)
Illich, Ivan, Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemisis: The Expropriation of Health. Marion Boyars (1975). “People need no bureaucratic interference to … [Read More...]
Legal Ethics
Bell, Derrick, Ethical Ambition, Bloomsbury (2002). Professor Derrick Bell, the first African-American tenured law professor at Harvard Law School, … [Read More...]
Tubal Ligation
www.tubal.org … [Read More...]