By: James J. McKenna, PH.D. Throughout human history, breastfeeding mothers sleeping alongside their infants constituted a marvelously...

By: Julian Whitaker M.D. A few years ago, James McKenna, PhD and Anthropologist at Pomona College agreed to share parental duties with...

There is a caveat to the push for increased Vitamin D: Don't forget magnesium. ​ A review published in The Journal of the American...

By: Anne Sommers Dr. Sears, a practicing pediatrician in San Clemente, California, has authored several books on parenting, including the...

By: Anne Sommers M.O.M. (Mothers and Others for Midwives) a quarterly magazine was fortunate to interview Dr. Robert Mendelsohn...

By: Anne Sommers Prenatal Care. Customarily blood work is done at your early prenatal appointments. Your hemoglobin (the oxygen carrying...

“The credentialing process for CPMs is the only educational route that requires homebirth experience to achieve certification; no CNM or...

I recently visited the Rosicrucian Museum in San Jose and was appalled at their “birth room” exhibit, a recreation of what a birth place...

“I'm educated to be an artist and a teacher and I am called to midwifery.” (Maggie Bennett) One of the purposes of this blog is to inform...

When I read the following article this morning I was very impressed with the author's historical context. "Einstein risked arrest for...