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World Health Organization. “North American and European consulting groups: WHO Report On Health Promotion and Birth.” Geneva, 1986.
Ibid.
Eva Abraham-Van der Mark, Successful Home Birth and Midwifery: The Dutch Model (Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1993), quoted in “Statement on Home Birth,” California College of Midwives, last modified March 1999, http://www.collegeofmidwives.org/collegeofmidwives.org/prac_issues01/homebrthstate.htm.
Wen dy Stueck, “Home Birth: A Labour of Love Few Canadian Parents are Pursuing,” The Globe and Mail, Dec. 18, 2013, http://www.the-globeandmail.com/life/parenting/home-birth-a-labour-of-love-few- canadian-parents-are-taking/article16050641/.
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National Aboriginal Health Organization. Celebrating Birth: Aboriginal Midwifery in Canada. Ottowa: National Aboriginal Health Organization, 2008, http://www.naho.ca/documents/naho/english/midwifery/celebratingBirth/Midwiferypaper_English.pdf.
National Aboriginal Health Organization, “Midwifery and Aborginal Midwifery in Canada,” May 28, 2004, http://www.naho.ca/documents/naho/english/midwifery/DP_aboriginal_midwifery.pdf.
British Columbia First Nations Leadership Council, “First Nations Health Blueprint for British Columbia,” June 15, 2005, http://www.fns.bc.ca/pdf/HBprintBC150705.pdf.
Dena Carroll and Cecilia Benoit, “Aboriginal Midwifery in Canada: Blending Traditional and Modern Forms,” Canadian Women’s Health Network 4, no. 3 (Jul 31, 2001):6. Reprinted with Permission.
Reprinted with permission from Libby Roderick and Turtle Island Records.
Photograph of “Stacey, Baby Ruby, and Maureen” taken by Mary Jane Howland: www.maryjanescamera.ca.
Reprinted with permission from Kirsty Elliot and Leaf Press, True (Lantzville, BC: Leaf Press, 2011), [page 55].
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chopsticks_(PSF).jpg.
Reprinted with permission from Doula Services Association, http://bcdoulas.org/.
Image courtesy of WikiCommons, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Shasti.jpg.
Photograph of “Christopher, Melissa and Tessa Star” taken by Elisha Manson.
Reprinted with permission from Kirsty Elliot and Leaf Press, True (Lantzville, BC: Leaf Press, 2011), [page 52].
Previously published in The Similkameen News Leader (2010) the Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy (2011), and Performing Motherhood (2014).
Reprinted with permission from the Native American Encyclopedia, http://nativeamericanencyclopedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ Map-showing-traditional-territory-of-the-Klahoose-people.png.
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Suzanne D. Colson, Judith H. Meek, and Jane M. Hawdon, “Optimal Positions for the Release of Primitive Neonatal Reflexes Stimulating Breastfeeding,” Early Human Development 84, no. 7 (2008): 441-49.
Albrecht Peiper, Cerebral Function in Infancy and Childhood (New York: Consultants Bureau).
Image courtesy Wikicommons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrea_Solario_-_Madonna_of_the_Green_Cushion_-_WGA21602.jpg.
Image courtesy Wikicommons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cassatt_Mary_Baby_John_Being_Nursed_1910.jpg.
“Nutrition: Exclusive Breastfeeding,” World Health Organization, [last modified 2014] http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/exclusive_ breastfeeding/en/.
Photograph of “Cleo and Dad” taken and reprinted with the permission of the photographer, Alicia Elliott: www.liquidlight.com.