Dr. Nils Bergman

Dr. Nils Bergman, MD, MPH, PhD, embodied passion starts with “skin-to-skin” contact of mother and baby. He is from South Africa, where he qualified in Cape Town, then worked as a Manama Mission doctor in Zimbabwe. With midwife Agneta Jurisoo, he developed and implemented Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) for premature babies. Since then, the ongoing …

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Cathy Daub

Cathy is a pediatric physical therapist who is founder, designer, and president of BirthWorks International. She is author of Birthing in the Spirit- a human values approach to childbirth, and Doulas of Love and is co-author of the BirthWorks Childbirth Educator Manual, and the Doula Journal Workbook. Cathy has taught childbirth education and doula workshops …

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Henci Goer

Henci Goer is an award-winning medical writer and internationally known speaker. An acknowledged expert on evidence-based maternity care, her first book, Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities, was a valued resource for childbirth professionals. Its successor, Optimal Care in Childbirth: The Case for a Physiologic Approach, has won the American College of Nurse-Midwives “Best Book of …

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