The web is abuzz with news of the rising rate of home births. Increasingly women are electing to stay home for three major reasons: perceived safety, a desire to avoid medical interventions, and a previous negative hospital experience. There is also a lot of discussion about the need for more trained midwives, qualified to attend [...]
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The challenges to safe motherhood vary depending where in the world you live. In some areas the challenge may be to get adequate nutrition or clean water; in other areas, it may be to prevent infection; and in still other locations it may be trying to avoid pregnancy before your body is ready or getting [...]
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There is no sensation known as pain. Sensations are nerve impulses that travel from the body toward the brain. Touch, sight, hearing, taste and smell are the major physical sense categories. Pain is a combination of sensations and emotional content supplied when the brain notices sensations and routes them through parts of the brain that [...]
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The first stage of labor, dilation, and why it is painful and important.
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