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Birthing Choices: Health Care Providers & Birth Locations
The nine months of pregnancy are filled with choices and decisions. These include decisions about exercise, clothing, prenatal care providers and birth location. Pregnancy and the childbirth are...
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Assisted Delivery
Near the end of the pushing stage, it might become apparent that mother and baby need a little extra help in the delivery. After ensuring that the anesthesia is working, the health care provider will...
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Home Birth
For centuries giving birth at home was the norm. By the 1900′s increasing numbers of women started having their babies at hospitals. As our understanding of anatomy, modern medicine, the mechanics’ of...
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Water Birth
Water birth is the process of giving birth in a tub of warm water. Some women choose to labor in the water and get out for delivery. Other women decide to stay in the water for the delivery as well....
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Birth Center
Find a Birth Center in Your Area What should you expect from a birth center? Relaxed and warm atmosphere The option of returning home shortly after the birth A team of health care providers that can...
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VBAC: Vaginal Birth after Cesarean
If you have experienced a cesarean delivery, you are not alone. In November 2005, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the national cesarean birth rate was the highest ever at...
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