It’s amazing to watch the way she uses her hands to massage, assess, palpate…turn a breech baby. A midwife’s greatest tool is her hands. I wonder how many of the women I see in the clinic come from traditional midwifery practices like this. American midwifery must seem very different to them. At it’s heart, I think the respect and tenderness and kindness to pregnant women remains the same, but we could learn so much from traditional practices like this.- Belly Tales
2.02.2008
Angelina The Midwife
I have just found some AMAZING vids on YouTube about traditional midwife, Angelina Martinez.
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Great videos! Thanks for posting.
Thank you for those videos. I am a midwifery educator and am 'collecting' resources like these to show my students. thanks a lot Sarah
I would love to view these but when I clicked on them it said the videos are no longer available. Do you know where I can find them? I did a search on You Tube and it turned up nothing. Thanks!
that is really odd - they still play for me... hmmm.... Try clicking on the Menu link in the bottom right corner of the video box and see if you can access it directly.
Strange... I had tried a few times and nothing. But after seeing your comment here, I went back and tried again and voila! They played! REALLY good videos! Practitioners here should take notice. I would LOVE to have her as my own midwife. I love what she does with the wrap (wrapping it around hips and legs and such) and then lifting those body parts up off the floor. I am not sure exactly what it does, but it looks super comfortable and probably helps to align things. Oh to be able to follow her around for a few days!
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