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  • What a selfish, dangerous web the home-birth lobby weaves.

    Don't believe the propaganda about births at home | Barbara Ellen 2011

  • They were more than nervous about the home-birth idea and conflicted about living with a baby.

    So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011

  • They were more than nervous about the home-birth idea and conflicted about living with a baby.

    So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011

  • With the closure of St. Vincent's Hospital Friday, New York City's home-birth movement finds itself without a home.

    Midwives Out in Cold 2010

  • You'd think that between Erykah Badu's home-birth twitter and Ricki Lake's film success and the New York Times coverage that we'd moved beyond dissing home birth as fringe -- "extreme."

    Jennifer Block: Extreme Birth, Indeed 2009

  • But after raising her to a teetering pedestal, crowning her "the fearless -- some say too fearless -- new leader of the home-birth movement," Goldman shoots her down.

    Jennifer Block: Extreme Birth, Indeed 2009

  • The piece, by Andrew Goldman, tries to be a character study of Cara Muhlhahn, the home-birth midwife and now memoirist featured in Lake's film The Business of Being Born.

    Jennifer Block: Extreme Birth, Indeed 2009

  • But the evidence as to the safety of planned home-birth and midwifery care is clear and getting clearer everyday.

    Amie Newman: What's So Scary About Home Birth? 2009

  • You'd think that between Erykah Badu's home-birth twitter and Ricki Lake's film success and the New York Times coverage that we'd moved beyond dissing home birth as fringe -- "extreme."

    Jennifer Block: Extreme Birth, Indeed 2009

  • You'd think that between Erykah Badu's home-birth twitter and Ricki Lake's film success and the New York Times coverage that we'd moved beyond dissing home birth as fringe -- "extreme."

    Jennifer Block: Extreme Birth, Indeed 2009

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