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Barbara Harper is a leading voice for childbirth and maternity care reform, an author, educator, midwife and internationally recognized expert on the use of warm water immersion for labor and birth. She became a registered nurse in 1975 and has worked in obstetrics, pediatrics, cardiac, neurosurgical intensive care and as a holistic nursing specialist. In …
Nancy Wainer is a Certified Professional Midwife who attends home births and who has been present at over 2100 births. She trains student midwives, teaches childbirth classes, is the author of two (soon to be three) books on Birth in the USA. She coined the term VBAC and her work is being archived at Harvard …
Dr. Moberg is recognized as a world authority on oxytocin. Her research takes place at the famed Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and at the Swedish university of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, where she is Professor of Physiology. The author of over four-hundred scientific papers, Dr. Uvnas Moberg lectures widely in Europe and the U.S. Her …
Jan Tritten is the founder and editor-in-chief of Midwifery Today magazine and a midwife who was in active practice from 1977 to 1989. She became a midwife in 1977 after the powerful homebirth of one of her daughters. Her mission is to make loving midwifery care the norm for birthing women and their babies in …
Heloisa Lessa PhD, is an autonomous midwife attending home and hospital births in Rio de Janeiro and a birth activist. She trained with indigenous traditional midwives. She organized several birth conferences in Brazil and abroad and is an international speaker. She is the founder of a multidisciplinary team of midwifes and obstetricians caring for women …
Lewis Mehl-Madrona holds an M.D. from Stanford University and is currently a research assistant professor in the Native American Research and Training Center at the University of Arizona college of Medicine in Tucson. He is boarded in family practice, geriatrics, psychiatry, and is board eligible in emergency medicine. He has been helping his patients find …
Phyllis Klaus MFT, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist and social worker. She teaches and practices at the Milton H. Erickson Institute in Santa Rosa, California, and in Berkeley, California, providing psychotherapy, hypnotherapy and counseling to individuals, couples, families, children and groups. She has worked with the concerns, both medical and psychosocial, of pregnancy, birth and …
Jean Sutton is a mother, grandmother and midwife with a family background in farming and engineering. As a teenager, she worked as a nurse-aid in a rural maternity hospital, in her first year witnessing over 200 babies being born! Even after becoming a general nurse, she stayed in maternity care, and after several women in …
Raymond De Vries, PhD is Associate Director at Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine at University of Michigan, USA as well as Professor in both Departments of Learning Health Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology. Additionally, he’s a visiting Professor of Midwifery Science at CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, University of …
Renowned expert Elizabeth Davis is a midwife, reproductive health care specialist, educator and consultant for over 35 years. She is internationally active in promoting pregnant person-centered birth, with expertise in midwifery, organizational development, reproductive rights, birth trauma and intuition. She travels widely lecturing and offering workshops, fulfilling her mission of sharing an integrated view of …
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