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Natural Childbirth

To Induce Or Not To Induce - Is That The Question?

Amie Newman | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: RH Reality Check, Pregnancy, Women, Midwifery, Natural Childbirth, Reproductive Rights, Childbirth, Living News
Amie Newman

Are there "good" reasons for inducing labor through medical intervention? It's a loaded question for which different providers may give you different answers.

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What's So Scary About Home Birth?

Amie Newman | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Rights, Out-of-Hospital-Birth, Natural Childbirth, Reproductive Rights, RH Reality Check, Women's Health, Reproductive Health, Motherhood, Home Birth, Midwifery, Childbirth, Cpms, Cnms, Living News
Amie Newman

The Today Show presents homebirth as an option to be feared, but that's only because the unknown is often a scary venture. If you listen to women's experiences, It doesn't have to be that way.

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Natural Home Childbirth: Amazing!

Grant Cardone | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Ama and Childbirth, Natural Childbirth, Birthing Techniques, Angelina Jolie, Epidurals, Child Birth Rate, Babies, Grant Cardone, Living News
Grant Cardone

In the US today, only 1% of all deliveries are done at home. The AMA obviously did a great sales job of convincing the US population away from natural childbirth an into the hospital.

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Extreme Birth, Indeed

Jennifer Block | Posted 05.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Ricki Lake, Birth Center, New York Magazine, Midwives, Natural Childbirth, Cesarean Section, Erykah Badu, Obstetrics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Home Birth, New York City, Evidence-Based Medicine, C-Section Rate, Living News
Jennifer Block

Routine maternity ward monitoring, inducing, and anesthetizing have added up to millions of unnecessary cesarean sections: a hospital childbirth system gone insane.

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Orgasmic Birth: The Natural Reality Behind The Hype

Lee Stranahan | Posted 02.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Orgasmic Birth, Women and Media, Children, Health, Natural Childbirth, Orgasms Childbirth, Documentary, Home Birth, Living News
Lee Stranahan

Orgasmic Birth certainly is a grabber of a title. Those aren't two words normally found close together in a sentence. In our culture, other adjectives are more common such as Painful Childbirth.

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More Babies Being Born At Home

NYTimes.com | Julie Scelfo | Posted 12.15.2008 | Style

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Recently, though, midwives and childbirth educators say, a growing number of women have been opting instead for the more intimate and familiar surroun...

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Is Natural Childbirth Passe?

abcnews.com | Susan Donaldson James | Posted 08.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Birthing Techniques, Natural Childbirth, Childbirth, Living News

Pregnant with her first child, Julie Speier prepared to deliver with the help of a midwife at a New York City birthing center. But in June -- three we...

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