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		<title>Interviewing Your Home Birth Midwife</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2011/09/interviewing-your-home-birth-midwife/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desirre Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interview Questions  Why are you a midwife?  What is your training? Are you certified? If yes, with whom and why? If no, why not?  Are you licensed in the state of _____?  What is your scope of practice?  Are there any circumstances (physical, emotional, and/or spiritual) would you not take a woman as a patient? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wish List In 2011</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2011/01/wish-list-in-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 13:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desirre Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A clean slate. A fresh start. Hope and dreams reactivated. Passions toward change are stirred. All of this by the calendar rolling over from one year to the next. It is not just  anew year though, it is a new DECADE to set precedent in. To make a mark. Oh the possibilities and opportunities that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grateful For My Birth(s) Carnival</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/11/grateful-for-my-births-carnival/</link>
		<comments>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/11/grateful-for-my-births-carnival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 03:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desirre Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prepforbirth.com/?p=1496</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am so thankful to all of the submissions I received for this Why I am Grateful for my Birth(s) blog carnival. I have found no matter what a woman can learn something and be grateful for something in every birth experience no matter how difficult or wonderful. Enjoy these quips and please go to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s a doula to do?</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/10/whats-a-doula-to-do/</link>
		<comments>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/10/whats-a-doula-to-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 16:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desirre Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prepforbirth.com/?p=1354</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is such a deep chasm and fracture within the doula community regarding in-hospital and out-of-hospital birth. On the one hand there are those who say anything goes in supporting women and their choices. On the other, there are those who say no doula should support a woman in the hospital environment because it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That Pesky Due Date</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/09/that-pesky-due-date/</link>
		<comments>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/09/that-pesky-due-date/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desirre Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[postdates]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prepforbirth.com/?p=1273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Women and babies are not made with a pop out button like some Thanksgiving turkeys indicating being done. That pesky due date becomes such great topic of debate. It can lead to unnecessary interventions (such as induction, provider change because of regulations or cesarean), emotional unease (I am broken, this baby is never coming, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for video clips or pictures of labor support</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/04/looking-for-video-clips-or-pictures-of-labor-support/</link>
		<comments>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/04/looking-for-video-clips-or-pictures-of-labor-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prepforbirth.com/?p=1170</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am looking for some short video clips or pictures of pairs (couples or labor support pairing) to use in my in progress on-line childbirth class series. General, activities or positions needed: Birth ball use Knee-chest Squatting Hands and knees (modified and traditional) Belly lift Rebozo use Slow dancing Labor walking Swaying Leaning Birth stool [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Does Pushing Feel Like? Many perspectives.</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/04/what-does-pushing-feel-lik/</link>
		<comments>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/04/what-does-pushing-feel-lik/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desirre Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prepforbirth.com/?p=1088</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Women often ask me what does pushing feel like. As an educator and doula it is probably one of the more challenging concepts to address. Some of the imagery can be quite vulgar.  &#8220;Push like you are pooping.&#8221; Do women REALLY want the image of pooping out their babies?! Or the imagery puts pushing in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology and the Prenatal &#8220;Diet&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/02/technology-prenatal-diet/</link>
		<comments>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/02/technology-prenatal-diet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desirre Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prepforbirth.com/?p=1022</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In westernized countries, television and the internet have almost completely replaced the generational teaching and learning found in the &#8220;circles&#8221; of the past. Women would gather over sewing, quilting, canning, and life events including pregnancy and childbirth. They offered support, told their stories, spoke of family life, shared their everyday knowledge, wisdom and expertise while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Affording the Birth You Want</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/02/affording-birth-you-wan/</link>
		<comments>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/02/affording-birth-you-wan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desirre Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[birth]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prepforbirth.com/?p=986</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many times over I have heard something similar to &#8220;If only my insurance would cover the childbirth class, doula, that provider or birth location. Then I could have the birth I really want for me and my baby.&#8221; That statement sadly says to me that women are settling for a provider, birth location, type of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building Your Birth Support Team</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2009/11/building-your-birth-support-team/</link>
		<comments>http://prepforbirth.com/2009/11/building-your-birth-support-team/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desirre Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prepforbirth.com/?p=880</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As practice through the ages and evidence shows, support during the birth process can be greatly beneficial to both mothers and babies. It is not about having an experience. It is about healthier emotional and physical outcomes for mothers and subsequently for babies as well.  Putting together a support team is not as simple as [...]]]></description>
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