Birth & Midwifery in Hungary
RESOURCES FOR PARENTS AND PRACTITIONERS

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Midwifery Today Country Contact*

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Andrea Noll and Nóra Schimcsig

Andrea Noll is a board member and international contact coordinator for the Hungarian Association of Midwives, www.midwives.hu. She is also Midwifery Today's country contact for Hungary. Andrea is currently in the process of translating Anne Frye's Holistic Midwifery into Hungarian. She is founding co-editor of Bábák, szülésznok, the Hungarian Association's midwifery magazine. She's currently studying at the Maternidad La Luz midwifery school in El Paso, Texas. On her graduation and return to Hungary (planned for March 2005), she will be the first modern-age midwife of her country with out-of-hospital training.

Nóra Schimcsig is a doula, HBCE, activist and mom. She speaks English, German fluently besides Hungarian.

Birth/Midwifery

Hungarian Association of Midwives http://www.midwives.hu/
Web site of Andrea Noll http://www.nandu.hu
Alternatal Foundation advocates undisturbed birth, specializing in homebirth. http://www.birth.hu
Hungarian Nursing Association http://www.apolasiegyesulet.hu