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Published April 2, 2009 at 6:11 p.m.

home that afternoon after receiving assistance with breastfeeding and was visited by midwives for the ... measures like better education about hygiene and breast feeding, and more training of skilled birth attendants ...

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Would You “Freebirth?”

Published March 31, 2009 at 12:31 p.m.
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Apparently there’s a new trend -- growing in England, but spreading stateside, too -- of “freebirthing,” giving birth at home, completely unassisted. No drugs, no doctor, no midwife, no medical support at all. A new documentary on Discovery Health, Freebirthing , tracks three women who chose to go it alone and deliver their baby outlaw-style (freebirths were originally called “outlaw births”) against the advice of nearly everyone around them ... read more ...

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