A decade of polarity.

© www.sarawickham.com This article first published 2007 Practising Midwife 10(3):44. Republished with permission for personal use only. Page numbers do not correspond to the original. Please do not reproduce/reprint without prior permission, thank you. Having known for a while that The Practising Midwife was celebrating her tenth birthday year, I had been thinking about writing a special article for this column. I started by checking back to see what interesting things had happened around the time of TPM’s birth. Amidst other important world events, Bill Clinton denied that he “had had relations with that woman”, the film Titanic won 11 Oscars, the US Federal Drug Administration approved Viagra and Geri Halliwell announced her departure from the Spice Girls. Few of these things, however, have made a significant impact on midwifery practice, so what has changed about midwifery and birth in the past ten years?