Afua Hassan Afua Hassan, Midwife, at The Birthing Place, joins us for Black History Month. We talk about some of our Houston midwives – Alberta Jordan, Margaret Smith, Mercy Inyang, Ayanna Ade – and the contributions they have made to … Continue reading →
Midwives of African American Descent – Houston Afua Hassaine, MW; Stephanie Palacio, CNM; Angeline Chambers, PhD, APRN, CNM; tells about African American Midwives and a Houston group MAD-H (Midwives of African American Descent – Houston) … Continue reading →
Titi Otunia, CNM Midwives in the Hospital – Womens Specialists of Houston … Continue reading →
Dr. Patricia Olenick, CNM, is a nurse-midwife and registered nurse of over thirty years of experience with birthing families in a variety of settings, from free-standing birth centers to major academic hospitals. She is currently faculty with the graduate school … Continue reading →
Ellen Cohen worked as a midwife in New York City hospitals for more than two decades, delivering some 1,400 babies. She participated in research that led to the first breakthrough in preventing mother-to-child transmission of the AIDS virus. She is … Continue reading →
Camilla May, Midwife, Evidence Based Care … Continue reading →
There’s been a new birth on the island! It’s a Birth Center! The midwives of Galveston Birth Center: Lourdes Resendez and Jaymee Jamison Boughton. … Continue reading →
The midwifery journey of Andie Wyrick, CNM and Jami Hain, CNM. … Continue reading →
Maureen May, CNM, PhD, began her career with an Associates Degree of Nursing from San Jacinto Community College. In her nursing rotation the observed births at Jefferson Davis Hospital and saw midwife attended births at the hospital birthing center at … Continue reading →
Bethany Roger – she was raised in Lubbock, Texas and is a second year Master’s student in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Houston. Her thesis is about the use of Midwifery locally. She also created a short ethnographic film project … Continue reading →