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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>Picking Your Care Provider &#8211; Interview Questions</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2011/07/hiring-ob-midwife/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desirre Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being an active participant in your pregnancy and birth journey begins with choosing your provider. You can begin the search for the right provider fit prior to becoming pregnant, in early pregnancy or anytime before your baby is born. So much of how your pregnancy and birth unfold are directly related to your care provider [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in the job?</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2011/07/whats-in-the-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 23:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desirre Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; I wonder if most of us really know what the scopes of practice are for the providers we may choose  for pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and for the baby.  Keep reading to see if you really know what the jobs encompass. As you go through the list I would like you to [...]]]></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>Posptartum and the Great Abyss</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/11/postpartum-abyss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desirre Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prepforbirth.com/?p=1503</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The postpartum period is a critical time for the health, attachment and emotional adjustment for both mother and baby. It has become the expected norm that women are left with very little medical or care provider support/assistance in handling the many norms, transitions and stumbling blocks that present in the first 6 weeks postpartum with [...]]]></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>Why Childbirth Education?</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/11/why-childbirth-education/</link>
		<comments>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/11/why-childbirth-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desirre Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prepforbirth.com/?p=1484</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I sit here and ponder Why childbirth education is important?. I am an educator because I think it can be a vital piece to the preparation puzzle prior to welcoming a baby.  I use the word &#8220;can&#8221; versus &#8220;is&#8221; due to the fact that all educational offerings are not created equally. It is known that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Carnival &#8211; Grateful for Birth Experiences Due 11/23</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/11/blog-carnival-grateful-for-birth/</link>
		<comments>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/11/blog-carnival-grateful-for-birth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desirre Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prepforbirth.com/?p=1458</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I invite you to participate in Preparing For Birth&#8217;s upcoming Blog Carnival set to appear on Thanksgiving morning. Topic: &#8220;Why I am grateful for my birth experiences.&#8221; This is your point of view. I encourage you to be open about expectations, what it was really like and how it impacted you as a woman, mother, [...]]]></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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		<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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		<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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