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Home birth – Springer and Van Weel

Safe in selected women, and with adequate infrastructure and support birth is an event of great importance in family life. Although pregnancy and delivery are, under healthy conditions, normal social...

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Home birth figures low in North Wales

THE number of mums giving birth at home is lower in North Wales than in the rest of Wales, figures released last night show. But those choosing home delivery rather than opting for a hospital maternity...

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Birth charity says the NHS is right to encourage home births

Edinburgh charity the Birth Resource Centre told Dunedin Napier News it believes NHS plans to encourage home birth in the Lothians are a good idea. As birth rates rise the new Maternity Services...

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Scotland: Pregnant women are urged to give birth in their own homes

MOTHERS-to-be are to be encouraged to stay away from hospital in an effort to more than double the number of home births in the Lothians. Pregnant women living furthest from the ERI and St John’s in...

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Is Homebirth for You?

Today in the United States, at the end of the twentieth century, advances in science and technology account for many positive changes in our quality of life. Yet more and more women from all walks of...

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Our ‘high risk’ Chapelfields home birth was a success

NEW mum Rachel Bridgeman successfully gave birth to her second son Alfie at home on November 17, despite being classed as “high risk” following a caesarean section. The 35-year-old mum-of-two from...

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Calmness key to home birth

EMMA PEARCE, 29, runs a baby and maternity clothing company called Butterfly Babies, and is mum to daughter Tiegan, six, and son Cadan, three. Both her children were born at home in Roath, Cardiff....

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Home Birthing Discussion

A discussion on the topic of Home Birthing and licensing midwives in North Carolina and other U.S. states with Russ Fawcett and Jennifer Block.

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Kaplan Study Guide Suggests Banning Home Birth is Constitutional

Via a tip from a friend of the National Advocates for Pregnant Women, we learned that Kaplan review materials (created to help law students preparing to take state bar exams) suggest that a state ban...

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7 Tips for Creating a Calm, Joyous Homebirth

As cesarean and induction rates in hospital climb to astronomical levels many women are turning to homebirth. When interventions become excessively high, the risk/benefit ratio of being in a hospital...

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More moms choose to give birth at home

If Samara Hines had health insurance, she’d deliver her baby in a hospital, away from the demands of her five other children and with help from nurses for the new little one. But Hines’ husband is...

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Peterhead mums unite for home birth support service

EXPECTANT mums who have their hearts set on giving birth at home are to benefit from the launch of a new support service next month. Peterhead mothers Amber Sebold and Charlie Paris have united to help...

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Obs bleating as they get scared for their pockets

OBSTETRICIANS have stepped up their counter-attack against a push to give midwives a bigger role, claiming dire consequences will result if a federal review recommends allowing midwives to practise...

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Ingo Rademacher Talks Names, Labor, Vaccines and Breast Milk

Soap star Ingo Rademacher and his fiancée Ehiku caused quite a stir with CBB readers when they announced that they had named their now 5-month-old son Peanut Kai. After learning of the pregnancy, the...

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Homebirth=Empowerment

It’s not a secret that I had a homebirth with my daughter last August! But why do people feel the need to make nasty comments about it, like it’s a bad thing? What’s with the negativity people?...

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(Video) Home Birth: DIY Labor and Delivery

We first met Katherine and Todd through LocalHarvest.org as our closest Community Supported Agriculture provider. We quickly became interested in their story as small farmers trying to make a living...

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A Homebirth Story

Yesterday morning at about 2:00am I got the call. It was the call I had been waiting for for about two weeks. She said “Hannah, my water just broke and I am having really strong contractions.” I said,...

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A TRADITIONAL BIRTH: No birthplace like home

Brannan Sirratt stepped into Birthroot Midwifery’s prenatal meeting room with husband Jacob and toddler son Nate in tow. Escaping a chilly February day, the family got warm hugs from Maria Chowdhury...

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Bill seeks to create state board of midwives

Sens. Wayne Johnson, R-Cheyenne, and Charles Scott, R-Casper, have co-sponsored a bill they say will make it easier and safer for women to give birth at home. Currently, it is illegal for certified...

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Home Birth Safety Act

The legislative season has started in SD again, so much of my computer time is taken up with following and promoting and defending the Home Birth Safety Act. Last year, the state passed a bill that...

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