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		<title>Ina May&#8217;s Guide to Childbirth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ina May Gaskin is sometimes called the Grandmother of modern midwifery. Her book, Spiritual Midwifery, was the authority for aspiring midwives in the 70s, 80s and 90s. The book is divided into two sections; birth stories and information for practitioners. Thirty years later, her new guide is set up the same way but now includes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midwifery Model of Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2004 23:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Melancon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pregnancy and childbirth are normal life events, not medical conditions. A woman&#8217;s body is perfectly designed to give birth. This process works best when interference is kept to a minimum. It is our cultural conditioning, fear, poor health habits and intervention in normal birth that make birth difficult often requiring more intervention, including surgery. Perfect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diary of a Midwife</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2003 12:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1976, Juliana van Olphen-Fehr had her first child in a hospital. Influenced by Frederick Leboyer&#8217;s Birth Without Violence, she and her husband tried to have as natural a childbirth as possible under the circumstances. However, the attending physician performed an episiotomy, not because of any medical necessity, but just because it was hospital routine. [...]]]></description>
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