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"My Vagina Fell Out": Woman Shares Health Horror

Sphere | Buck Wolf | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Birth, Vulva, Prolapse, Uterus, Pregnancy, Plastic Surgery, Hematoma, Cystocele, Child Birth, Health, Urethra, Reproductive Health, Women's Health, Rectum, Vaginal Prolapse, Stds, Std, Vagina, Placenta, Rectocele, Bladder, Labia Reduction, Living News

Allison Henry isn't the first to suffer from a horrifying medical condition that few women talk about. But her case was particularly bad, and she's ju...

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Afghan Midwives Step Up To Fight One Of World's Worst Maternal Mortality Rates

CNN | Posted 08.23.2009 | World

Read More: Maternal Death, Midwives, Afghanistan, Foreign Affairs, Midwife, Afghan Midwife, Child Birth Rate, Afghan Women, Maternal Health, Afghan Women's Rights, Child Birth, Afghan Midwives, Health, Maternal Mortality, Advocacy, Women's Rights, World News

The war in Afghanistan may no longer be forgotten but the true victims always are. Women and children in the landlocked Asian country have continuous...

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Labor of Love: A Midwife's Memoir

Joe Antol | Posted 02.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Cara Muhlhahn, Birth, Labor of Love, Pregnancy, Child Birth, Midwife Memoir, Midwives, Books, Oregon, Living News
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For Muhlhahn, birth is a transformative and poetic experience for the mother. But perhaps she forgets that it is first and foremost a transformative experience for the child.

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State Trooper Gives Traffic Ticket To Woman In Labor

The Boston Globe | Stephanie Ebbert | Posted 01.04.2009 | Home

Read More: Birth, State Trooper Ticket, Child Birth, Pregnant Woman Ticketed, State Trooper, Boston, Home News

All too often, the congested roads of Greater Boston conspire with the vagaries of childbirth to leave a mother-to-be in a car on the roadside at one ...

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