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		<title>A Guide to Finding Your Doula</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2011/08/a-guide-to-finding-your-doula/</link>
		<comments>http://prepforbirth.com/2011/08/a-guide-to-finding-your-doula/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desirre Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Building a labor support team is part of conscious preparation during pregnancy for your labor,  birth and life with the very newborn. Hiring a labor doula continues to gain in popularity for the expecting family. Your doula comes alongside you in pregnancy through labor and delivery with some additional early postpartum follow-up.  For additional after [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://prepforbirth.com/2011/07/whats-in-the-job/#comments</comments>
		<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>Birth Plan Sample</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2011/02/birth-plan-sample/</link>
		<comments>http://prepforbirth.com/2011/02/birth-plan-sample/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desirre Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A birth plan is designed to facilitate communication between you and your provider, especially necessary if you are  birthing outside the home environment.  Secondly, it is to offer information on the individualized care you as the mother would like during labor, birth and immediately postpartum for you and your baby. It should be brief (no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating a relationship 10 minutes at a time</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2011/02/creating-relationship-10-minutes/</link>
		<comments>http://prepforbirth.com/2011/02/creating-relationship-10-minutes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desirre Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prepforbirth.com/?p=1692</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has occurred to me through my time with doula clients and students,  that many care providers serving hospital birthing mothers do not ask any questions of their pregnant patients during the 7-10 minute prenatal visits that lead to a substantive working relationship. I have also learned that too often the pregnant &#8220;patient&#8221; does not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Posptartum and the Great Abyss</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/11/postpartum-abyss/</link>
		<comments>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/11/postpartum-abyss/#comments</comments>
		<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>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>Preparing For Birth &#8211; Labor Length and Progress</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2009/10/preparing-for-birth-labor-length-and-progress/</link>
		<comments>http://prepforbirth.com/2009/10/preparing-for-birth-labor-length-and-progress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desirre Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prepforbirth.com/?p=795</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are always questions on what is the normal length for labor and what is not.  Women in labor are not static.  Though there may be averages, falling outside of those may not be reason to manage labor by augmentation or cesarean.   Patience and individualized care tend to be the biggest keys to better labor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shocking quotes regarding maternal choice to VBAC birth</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2009/10/shocking-quotes-regarding-maternal-choice-to-vbac-birth/</link>
		<comments>http://prepforbirth.com/2009/10/shocking-quotes-regarding-maternal-choice-to-vbac-birth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desirre Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prepforbirth.com/?p=787</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Joy Szabo has been in the news lately for desiring a second VBAC for her fourth baby (vaginal birth, emergency cesarean, and vaginal birth).  She has been denied locally in her area of Page, AZ to have a vaginal birth. Due to this situation, the International Cesarean Awareness Network has been assisting her in fighting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preparing For Birth &#8211; The Passage from She Births</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2009/10/preparing-for-birth-the-passage-from-she-births/</link>
		<comments>http://prepforbirth.com/2009/10/preparing-for-birth-the-passage-from-she-births/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desirre Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The below writing in my opinion is one of the most eloquent and beautiful takes on labor and birth I have read.   I am using it by permission of the author, Marcie Macari from her book She Births.   I encourage you to go to her site and see her offerings.  Inspiring and fantastic. Thank you [...]]]></description>
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