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Nisa with her new son Theo
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Alice, welcoming Evrett
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Annie with Grace
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Mindy helping at Rex's birth
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Homebirth Resources
Suggested Reading:
"Born in the USA" How a Broken Maternity System Must be Fixed to Put Women and Children First by Marsden Wagner, M.D., M.S
Why Homebirth? by Jill Cohen, associate editor, Midwifery Today
Birthing From Within by Pam England, CNM and Rob Horowitz, PhD
Homebirth, The Essential Guide to Giving Birth Outside of the Hospital by Sheila Kitzinger
Birth Reborn by Dr. Michel Odent
The Five Standards for Safe Childbearing by David Stewart, PhD
Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin
Special Delivery by Rahima Baldwin
Lying-In: A History of Childbirth in America by Richard W. and Dorothy C. Wertz
Brought to Bed, Childbearing in America, 1750-1950 by Judith Walzer Leavitt
The American Way of Birth by Jessica Mitford
"Mother and Child were Saved": The Memoirs (1693-1740) of the Frisian Midwife Catharina Schrader translated by Hilary Marland
A Midwive's Tale, The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on her Diary, 1785 - 1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Mothers and Midwives, A History of Traditional Childbirth by Janet Issacs Ashford
Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deidre English
In Labor, Women and Power in the Birth Place by Barbara Katz Rothman
Making Midwives Legal; Childbirth, Medicine and the Law by Ramond G. DeVries
Pursuing the Birth Machine, The search for appropriate birth technology by Marsden Wagner, MD
Increasing Access to Out-of-Hospital Maternity Care Services through Self-Regulated and Nationally Certified Direct Entry Midwives by the American Public Health Association
Childbearing Policy within a National Health Program: An Evolving Consensus for New Directions a project of the Women's Institute for Childbearing Policy, 1994, (a collective position paper by the Boston Women's Health Collective, the National Black Women's Health Project, the National Woman's Health Network and the Institute for Childbearing Policy
Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities, A Guide to the Medical Literature by Henci Goer
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