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		<title>Planned Home Births Better for Mom</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Melancon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 2000 study of home births in the US and Canada concluded that planned home births attended by certified professional midwives resulted in lower rates of medical intervention than their low risk counterparts at hospitals. For example, in the hospital 33% of the women received episiotomies compared to 2.1% of the women who began their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Home Birth Safe?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2003 17:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Melancon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: Is home birth safe? A: When people ask this question, they are usually asking, &#8220;Can having a baby at home be as safe as having a baby in a hospital?&#8221; The answer is yes, even more so. Study after study has shown that midwife-assisted births have a lower mortality rate than physician-assisted births in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Give Birth at Home?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the better question is &#8220;Why give birth in a hospital?&#8221; Pregnancy is not a sickness; childbirth is not a disease. In the United States, unnecessary medical intervention in the natural process of childbirth has resulted in correspondingly high incidence of infant injury and mortality compared with European nations, such as Denmark and France, where [...]]]></description>
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