Records, 1975-1998 (ongoing) (bulk 1975-1998).

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Records, 1975-1998 (ongoing) (bulk 1975-1998).

Records include publications, video and audio tapes, and teaching manuals for childbirth education and childbirth assistant training, conferences, and workshops; books and articles on home birth and midwifery; Michigan Midwives Association newsletters; financial records; and professional papers of Rahima Baldwin Dancy, 1980s-1990s.

7 linear ft. (7 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7608829

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966

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Margaret Louise Higgins was born in Corning, New York, on September 15, 1879, the sixth of eleven children and the third of four daughters born to Anne Purcell Higgins and Michael Hennessey Higgins, a stone mason. Her two elder sisters worked to supplement the family income, and financed her education at Claverack College, a private coeducational preparatory school in the Catskills. After leaving Claverack, Higgins took a job teaching first grade to immigrant children, but decided after a short ...

Baldwin, Rahima, 1949-

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Informed Homebirth/Informed Birth & Parenting.

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Health care organization. National, non-profit, educational organization based in Ann Arbor, Michigan (now in Fair Oaks, California) founded by Rahima Baldwin Dancy, 1977, as Informed Homebirth. In 1983, name was changed to Informed Birth and Parenting. Mission is to provide parents with information about alternatives in birth, parenting, and early childhood. Provides information and referrals, childbirth preparation classes, books and videos, seminars and conferences, c...