Midwife

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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How To Save Our Nation's Budget and Start Nurturing American Families

Shaana Keller | Posted 08.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Children, Health, Midwife, Hospitals, Childbirth-Death, Childrens Health, Babies, Maternal Health, Health Care, Maternal Mortality, Childbirth, Living News
Shaana Keller

In the United States today, more than 95% of our pregnant moms deliver in a hospital setting. Yet, for normal pregnancies, science has proven that it is safer to use a midwifery model of care.

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Women Document Childbirth, Share On YouTube

nytimes.com | Malia Wollan | Posted 07.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Health, Women, Youtube, Babies, Pregancy, Health, Midwife, Childbirth, Living News

By her eighth month of pregnancy, Rebecca Sloan, a 35-year-old biologist living in Mountain View, Calif., had read the what-to-expect books, taken the...

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