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Questions to Ask When Hiring a Doula

by Tom Henderson, Posted Jan 31st 2010 10:00AM

Hiring a doula? Here are questions to ask. Credit: mahalie, Flickr Kelly Anderson gave expectant mothers oranges and tins cans with the lids removed from both ends. "Now push the orange through the can," she told the women, giving them an idea ...
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Signs of Labor

by Sandy Maple, Posted Nov 11th 2009 5:00PM

Knowing the signs of labor can help prepare for delivery. Credit: Getty Images
Knowing the signs of labor can help a pregnant woman feel more comfortable and confident as she approaches her due date. A woman's body begins preparing for delivery ...
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Orgasmic Childbirth?

by Sandy Maple, Posted Mar 25th 2009 2:00PM

Here's something you don't hear very often during childbirth: "Oooh, that feels so good!" Generally that is because the mother-to-be-is either unconscious, writhing in pain, or numb from the waist down. But according to a new documentary, childbirth ...
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More New York Moms Choosing to Birth at Home

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Nov 14th 2008 5:02PM

Wow. Here's a loaded topic! Want to have your baby at home? Home birth is a process that has been eschewed--well, OK, to use the word from a recent New York Times article on the subject, "condemned"--by the American College of Obstetricians and ...
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Mamaloo's amazing birth story

by Nadine Silverthorne, Posted Jul 12th 2007 11:34AM

If you don't read Momcast, you might recall Susan Wagner writing about ParentDish reader and frequent commenter Mamaloo live-blogging her birth. On a slow day at the office, I decided to check back in and find out what happened. Lo and behold, a ...
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$40,000 reward to stop female circumcision in Britain

by Sandy Maple, Posted Jul 12th 2007 9:05AM

More common in Africa and the Middle East, the practice of removing a young girl's clitoris and other parts of her genitalia is spreading to other countries as immigrants make their way west. In Britain, it has become such a problem that the ...
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Doctors warn: freebirthing is dangerous

by Nadine Silverthorne, Posted Jun 22nd 2007 11:57AM

Freewheeling, freebasing -- these are terms I've heard of. Freebirthing? Not so much, until I came across this article warning women against freebirthing, a.k.a. birthing without the supervision of a doctor, midwife or doula. I had no idea modern ...
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Midwife goes to jail after stillborn birth

by Rachel Mosteller, Posted Dec 17th 2006 1:01PM

A Wisconsin midwife has been sentenced to six months of jail plus probation due to a baby being born stillborn in a home birth. According to this article, Helen Dentice, who is 52, started working with a couple one month before the delivery of their ...
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Interesting article on homebirthing

by Rachel Mosteller, Posted Oct 26th 2006 11:35AM

Choosing the environment in which to give birth is an extremely personal experience for any woman. For some, the hospital is the only way. Others think of birthing centers as the ideal. Then there are the ones that labor at home. I didn't know much ...
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Doulas on the rise

by Stefania Butler, Posted Jan 11th 2006 8:01AM

From the tipline: A doula trainer and mentor, writes that as 2006 begins, she is "seeing more young mothers (and some men!) seeking training and certification as doulas so they can give back to their community. These women will be volunteering ...
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