Ecstatic Birth Nature's Hormonal Blueprint for Labor
This material has been further expanded as Undisturbed Birth Mother Nature's hormonal blueprint for safety, ease and ecstasy. ~
Medicaid Birth Center Reimbursement Act Introduced
Reps. Susan Davis, Gus Bilirakis, Lois Capps and Rob Wittman Introduce Bill to Protect Health Care Services for Pregnant Women and Their Newborns ~
Ob-Gyns Issue Less Restrictive VBAC Guidelines
Vaginal birth after cesarean is a safe and appropriate choice for most women who have had a prior cesarean delivery ~
Too Many C-Sections: Docs Rethink Induced Labor
The rise in cesarean-section deliveries in recent years has been characterized by some as a key indication of the over medicalization of childbirth. While the procedure undoubtedly saves lives and leads to better health outcomes for. . . ~
Welcome Home, Baby
After falling out of favor, home births are now on the rise in the United States ~
The Real Risks for Cesareans
The risks for birth by surgery have also come under discussion. Maternal risks include a higher overall death rate, rehospitalization for wound complications and infection, placenta accreta and percreta.... ~
Caution urged on inducing labor
Doctors are being advised not to induce labor for non-medical reasons prior to 39 weeks into a pregnancy under revised guidelines released today by the nation's association of obstetricians and gynecologists. ~
A Gentle Way of Birthing
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Home-birth advocates push for change in laws
With health care costs high on the national agenda, advocates of home births are challenging the medical and political establishments to give midwives a larger role in maternity care and to ease the state laws that limit their out-of-hospital practice. ~
Midwives Deliver
Some healthcare trivia: In the United States, what is the No. 1 reason people are admitted to the hospital? Not diabetes, not heart attack, not stroke. The answer is something that isn't even a disease: childbirth. ~


Did you Know... After a successful debut at the Tribeca Film Festival, The Business of Being Born was released in January 2008 in NYC, LA and SF. It is also available at Netflix. It is now available for purchase on DVD
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Kellie Moeller has been a CNM (Certified Nurse Midwife) since 1989. She has assisted families and caught babies in over 800 births.