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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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Erykah Badu Twitters Her Home Birth
Welcome to the world Twitty Milk! Erykah Badu gave birth to her third child on February 1st. Not only did Erykah Badu opt for a home birth in her Brookyn dwelling, without any painkillers, but she and her boyfriend twittered the whole thing. Now that’s some major league multi-tasking. At the end of the birth Badu blogged "I can't believe it's...
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Today Show Says: Doulas Get in the Way
Despite having been exceedingly happy with my own home birth, I know birth location is a very personal choice. When I have friends who are planning to give birth in a hospital, I don't go home-birth evangelical on them. I just have three words: "Get a doula." A doula, or labour assistant, is a trained birth attendant, but not a...
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If You’re Not Birthing at Home, You’re Irritated With Women Who Do
Seems like you can't swing a freshly born placenta without hitting another story on home birth these days. Take this recent one in the New York Times about the growing number of women who are planning home births around NYC.The article is especially notable to me for a couple of reasons: none of the couples say they wanted a home birth for spir...
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Homebirth Baby Dies — Who’s To Blame?
A newborn baby died last week after a woman refused a recommended induction at hospital and attempted a freebirth (birth without registered care professional in attendance). Doulas and a midwife were called but arrived too late to save the baby, who was stillborn. The baby died last Sunday three days after the mother presented at Nepean Hospital....
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Independent Midwives The Answer To Cope With Baby Boom?
Australian birth rates are booming, and to handle the demand, the federal government is looking to expand midwifery care, giving licensed midwives more access to insurance, prescribing rights, and ability to get paid through public health subsidies even if they aren't working directly under a doctor's supervision. Read more...
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Only 43% of British Mothers Offered Home Birth! Outrage!
Here in America, we know things are a little different across the pond. British nannies have a certain something, their weather lacks a certain something, and there's that whole royalty business.But sometimes we forget just how deep the differences can go. Take maternity care. In fact, in order to avoid a rose-colored-glasses look, take what bu...
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