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	<description>Betsy Melancon, Certified Professional Midwife: Helping People Out</description>
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		<title>Lillian Rose, Vaginal Breech Birth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2006 23:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Story by Bobbie Rae Jones &#8220;I was in the thirty-sixth week of pregnancy and the baby had not turned. She was in a frank breech position. This was my first baby, and I had talked with many people and read a lot of information. Normal procedure for a baby in breech presentation delivered in the [...]]]></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>
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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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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2003 16:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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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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