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90How to deliver a baby at home (emergency situation)
Delivering a baby at home, unassisted, can cause fear in the most courageous heart, but really, it needn't. Birth is a very natural process and, in most cases, not a medical emergency. Unplanned homebirth, even unplanned CAR birth, happens all the time with happy results all around.
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82Health Care Provider Options for Childbirth: Obstetricians, Family Practitioners, and Midwives
Expectant mothers today have more choices than ever when it comes to pregnancy and childbirth health care. This article looks at the basic philosophies and options available. Midwifery Model of Care vs....
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81Childbirth - in like a banana, out like a pineapple!
“Granny! Auntie Daf!” Fenella called out again. The blood wasa steady trickle dripping into the toilet bowl.Her Granny and Auntie Daf hurried to the toilet, and bothcrowded around Fenella in the tiny...
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81Working Women: It's Nothing New
Many people assume that women did not start working outside the home until the late 1960s or the 1970s. Not true. I'm not talking about Rosie the Riveter or all the women who worked at aircraft factories and...
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82Pregnant, Now what? - Looking for a midwife, and ante-natal care
You are pregnant! Now what? So you've just had a positive pregnancy test? Congratulations! Firstly, sit down and take the news in. It's a big change in your life, and a surprise however hard you've been...
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73How to Prepare for Natural Childbirth
As I planned this hub, I had to make a decision: I could either make this personal and express my feelings throughout the hub in a subjective manner, or I could be entirely objective and pass on information...
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75How to Pick A Doctor
This is an important time in your life and your baby's and you will need to have help from a health care professional for the next 7 months or so. Isn't it important to choose someone you can work with? Try to...
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77Stillborn Babies
What happens when pregnancy goes wrong ? have you had a still born child or know someone that has. In the UK 1 in 3000 children that are born are stillborn. Going through a still birth labour can be terrible and the after effects remain with you for life.
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712 Blue Lines
On Thursday 17th December 2009 I arrived home from work at 4:30pm and found my wife in the Kitchen with a great big cheesy grin on her face, I asked her what was going on and she handed me a small plastic...
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70The Miracle of Waterbirth Part II
June Lily Cox When I found out I was pregnant in October 2007, I was VERY excited. I had been using an IUD as our chosen form of contraceptive and we had decided that that we were ready to try for another...
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