Recent Blog Posts

View Post: New Interview with Ricki and Abby on pregnancyandbaby.com
The ...
18 hours ago ...
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View Post: The Mommy Blawg: FDA raids Miami birth center; Placentas, medical ...
3 Jan 2009 by The Mommy Blawger  
Birth center staff were allegedly dehydrating and encapsulating placentas in a process that resulted in placentas from various birth mothers becoming commingled. Midwife Shari Daniels denies the allegations, according to news reports: ...
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View Post: Reimbursement for Birth Centers: Ask Congress to Act Now
2 Dec 2008
We've written before about the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services — the federal agency that runs Medicare/Medicaid — refusing to pay the federal percentage of Medicaid payments that states might make to birth centers. ...
View Blog: Our Bodies Our Blog - http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/

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View Post: Nurse.com - Illinois Mothers Can Choose Freestanding Birth Centers
8 Dec 2008
She had hoped to deliver her own baby in a birth center; however, that child has now turned 20, and Ferguson, a certified nurse midwife (CNM) with Eire Family Health Center in Chicago, has yet to see such a center open in the state. ...
View Blog: Nurse.com News - http://www.nurse.com/

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View Post: Legislative Alert: American Association of Birth Centers ...
16 Dec 2008 by kgjames  
We are making progress with education of the House and Senate about the need to add the birth center facility to Medicaid covered services! But, many Representatives and Senators have not yet had a call from you or your clients. ...
View Blog: The Trial of Labor - http://labortrials.wordpress.com/

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View Post: Orgasmic Birth?
Pregnancy
Babies Online The Blog ...
View Blog: The film, available for sale now, chronicles the birth stories of 11 different women. Births include home births, water births, and all-natural, mid-wife assisted births in hospital-affiliated birthing centers.

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View Post: Citizens for Midwifery: Grassroots Network: ACTION ALERT for Birth ...
15 Dec 2008 by CfM Molly  
I know we are all really busy, but below is a really important ACTION ALERT from the American Association of Birth Centers (AABC) to help Birth Centers. Your 3 phone calls are a gift you can give to mothers and families that costs you ...
View Blog: Citizens for Midwifery - http://cfmidwifery.blogspot.com/

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View Post: U.S. Birth Centers in Danger of Closing - Strollerderby
17 Dec 2008 by Miriam Axel-Lute  
For many pregnant women, birth centers provide just that. For low-risk pregnancies, they are a comfortable, calm, non-hospital atmosphere in which to give birth. They often have pools, and kitchens for family members to cook in. ...
View Blog: Strollerderby - http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/default.aspx

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View Post: motherocker: (My Personal) Thoughts on Homebirth
5 hours ago by stef  
Some states have Birth Centers as an option. These are freestanding facilities where a child can be born under care in a non-hospital setting but there is prepared convenient transport available to a medical facility should it be ...
View Blog: motherocker - http://motherocker.blogspot.com/

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View Post: Midwives Deliver
RHRealityCheck.org
15 hours ago ...
View Blog: http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog

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