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Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington And Other Celebrity Homebirths
One thing that had been sorely missing from homebirth advocacy was a celebrity spokesperson. Then Ricki Lake and her documentary, the Business of Being Born came along. Suddenly, it seemed, home birth was taken out of the patchouli saturated communal tent and brought into mainstream our living rooms, where they were sitting in blow-up kiddie pools...
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Homebirth Effectively Made Illegal By New Laws
It seems that homebirth will be effectively made illegal in Australia soon, after the draft Health Practitioner Regulation National Law, released last week, stated that a midwife cannot be registered unless she has insurance. Many in the homebirthing community have no issue with registration and insurance for independent midwives — the probl...
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Brits Seek Home Birth—Even When They Shouldn’t
A study published in the British Medical Journal finds that some British women are unhappy enough with the hospital care they have received, or expect to receive, that they are seeking home birth options even when they have medical complications that would make it risky. The report notes carefully that home birth is as safe as a hospital for low...
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A Really Graphic Homebirth
Actor/writer/artist Christen Clifford has joined with cartoonist David Heatley to bring you the cartoon version of her daughter's birth. At home. Not a single lit candle or Enya-pumping iPod appear in any frame. But there is a butternut squash. And this: Read more...
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Home Birth: A Right Or A Must?
I wasn't surprised to read Melanie Reid's assumption that home birthing mums are all sandal-wearing hippie freaks (OK, I added that last part). It's the way a lot of people look at women who decided to deliver a baby at home. That's not to say I agreed with her. But even with her narrow description of the type of woman who decides to give birth...
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They Say: Home Births ‘As Safe As Hospital’
Homebirthing has been big news lately, with the Australian Maternity Services Act under review and the tragic death of a baby during a planned freebirth last week. The case for legal access to homebirthing may be bolstered though, with new research from the Netherlands finding no difference in death rates of either mothers or babies in 530,000 b...
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Maternity Wars
Rachel Day may not yet know the gender of her child, but on the place of birth, there are absolutely no doubts. The mother-to-be is adamant she will give birth at home. “It's about being comfortable. Being in hospital just doesn’t appeal to me. [Pregnancy] is a normal physiological process and I believe it’s really important to be in an envir...
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Placentas Washing Up In American Sewer
A public health administrator in Illinois, USA, is asking that whoever is dumping fresh born plancentas into the local sewage system to, you know, stop it. For the third time, workers at the local water treatment plant found afterbirth caught in a filter designed to keep large foreign objects (including human organs!) out of the treatment facili...
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Society Doesn’t Support Home Birth. Or Does It?
As the economy continues into the toilet, there seems to be a growing push to consider increasing the use of midwives (both hospital and home birth, nurse-midwives and certified professional midwives) as a way to cut down health care costs. Of course, it's being met with a predictable backlash from doctors screaming about how dangerous home birt...
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