Birth & Midwifery in Russia
RESOURCES FOR PARENTS AND PRACTITIONERS

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Midwifery Today Country Contact

Veronika Maslova

Veronika Maslova is a family doctor and homeopath who has been practicing homebirth midwifery for 15 years. Her greatest life passion is gentle, undisturbed births. Veronika is convinced that knowledge and information give women and families strength to make their own choices. She works at Russia's first Center for Traditional Midwifery (http://www.center-akusherstva.ru/), founded by her friend and fellow midwife, Tamara Sadovaya.

Besides being doctor and midwife, she enjoys teaching other midwives, doctors and parents about normal physiology, natural ways of giving birth and living. For that she participates in Midwifery Today conferences, reads books, journal articles and Web sites in different languages and shares this knowledge with parents and colleagues. She has translated several homeopathic books from English into Russian. Together with her colleagues from the Wonderful Child Parents' Center, Veronika developed the first Russian-language Web site on midwifery called Akusherstvo Segodnya at www.midwifery.ru.

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Birth/Midwifery

• Akusherstvo Segodnya—Russian-language informational and educational Web site for childbirth practitioners and parents
• Moscow "Sadovoy" Center for Traditional Midwifery—Russia's first midwifery center based on the midwifery model of care. Our staff includes midwives, homeopaths and osteopaths as well as obstetricians and pediatricians. Languages spoken by staff members include English, French and German. We provide ultrasound, lab work, educational and exercise classes.

Parenting/Breastfeeding

• Theresa Yaroshevich—offering Mommy Milk Meet-ups with other nursing and expecting moms
• Moscow Wonderful Child Parents' Center
• Moscow Rojdestvo Parents' School
• Moscow "Mam-studio" Future Parents Club—in the big Moscow Family Center Mir Detstva
• Moscow Vozrojdenie Family Center
• St. Petersburg "Kolybelka" Center for Parenting Culture—prepares families for healthy and conscious conception, for natural gentle births (including waterbirth). Yoga, fitness, aquatraining, singing in chorus. Postnatal care, breastfeeding support. Breastfeeding moms club. Swimming and exercises for babies. Groups for babies and children early development. Has English-speaking staff.
• Barnaoul "Rastem Vmeste" Center for Family and Childhood—prenatal classes, psychological support, exercises and dancing, aquaerobics for future moms; groups for children
• Toliatti Center for Healthy Family—Web site and prenatal class "Pavushki" (old Russian name for pregnant women); dancing/fitness/swimming for future moms and for mom and baby
• Oranjevaya Mama—the Russian-language Web site for natural, harmonious, joyful and happy parenting. Information on slings, natural childbirth, breastfeeding, communication, sleeping together, etc. The authors are teachers, psychologysts, anthropologyst, midwives and moms who shares their experience. The Web site's mom Marianna speaks and writes English.

Education

• International School of Traditional Midwifery (Moscow)—provides seminars and educational programs for midwives with well-known specialists from all over the world, international conferences, translation and publishing of books on traditional midwifery. Look for information on www.midwifery.ru.
• Michel Odent in Russia—the project of International School of Traditional Midwifery that includes organization of seminars, translation and publishing of Michel Odent's books and running this Russian-language Web site dedicated to his works, books and articles.
• The Russian Birth Project, Midwifery Internship & Orthodox Christian Service Mission—Offering 10-week Midwifery Internships in a maternity hospital in St. Petersburg, Russia