This article discusses the culture of childbearing. Explores how medicalization has becomes the ritual of birth in North America. Explores how women are reclaiming their bodies in birth.
In this article film-maker Laura Alper talks with interviewer Sue Kaiser about the challenges and changes she experiences while making her first women's health film. Laura Alper co-directed the film "Is it hot in here?" a film about women's experience of menopause.
This article discusses the various ways to use knowledge to prevent or achieve conception; The Rhythm Method; Natural Family Planning (NFP); menstrual and ovulatory cycles discussed in detail; Cosmic Birth Control is introduced.
International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS
Discusses treatments to reduce transmission during pregnancy and strategies to reduce transmission during delivery. Also discusses breastfeeding and HIV transmission.
Finds that HIV-positive and at-risk women of childbearing age may benefit from counseling interventions sensitive to factors that influence infected women's pregnancy decisions.
Provides physicians with an overview of the health care issues faced by women with disabilities as they cope with the specific challenges of pregnancy, labour, birth, and parenting.
Forms a collaborative effort among a broad spectrum of maternity service providers. Provides guidelines for identifying and designating "mother-friendly" birth sites including hospitals, birth centers and home-birth services.
Provides comprehensive listing of articles and fact sheets on all aspects of pregnancy, childbirth, and having a midwife or doula attended birth, written by midwives, doulas, nurses and other health care professionals.
