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		<title>Finding and Hiring A Labor Doula</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/02/18/finding-hiring-a-labor-doula/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Building a labor support team is a vital piece of conscious preparation during pregnancy in preparation for birth and life with the very newborn. Today as part of that support team many women are opting to hire a labor doula to come alongside them at the end of pregnancy through labor and delivery with some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology and the Prenatal &#8220;Diet&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/02/17/technology-prenatal-diet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Fly Sister Soar</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/02/14/fly-sister-soar/</link>
		<comments>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/02/14/fly-sister-soar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prepforbirth.com/?p=1018</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is my Valentine to you all my &#8220;sisters&#8221;.  We are in this together, weaving the past, present, and future through who we are and what we do.  I ache for us women to encircle each other, grow each other and be real with each other.  Be blessed.
Sister never be satisfied with just living. Hiding. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tell NBC What YOU Think &#8211; ICAN meets mother-sized activisim</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/02/07/tell-nbc-what-you-think-ican-meets-mother-sized-activisim/</link>
		<comments>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/02/07/tell-nbc-what-you-think-ican-meets-mother-sized-activisim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://blog.ican-online.org/2010/02/07/mother-sized-activism-nbc/
The International Cesarean Awareness Network wants you to get involved and speak your mind about what you think of the NBC &#8220;Live in the OR&#8221; piece from last week. Here is the link to ICAN&#8217;s official response.
The only way that mass media will be responsible for what they put on the airwaves is for real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Elective&#8221; Cesarean &#8211; If you had one&#8230;..</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/02/05/elective-cesarean-if-you-had-one/</link>
		<comments>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/02/05/elective-cesarean-if-you-had-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prepforbirth.com/2010/02/05/elective-cesarean-if-you-had-one/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is much in the news and in community talk how women are signing up for cesareans electively. I am very intrigued by this assumption and believe there is much misinformation regarding the topic out in the public for consumption. I am seeking to shed some more light on this topic.
Though this is not a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Affording the Birth You Want</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/02/01/affording-birth-you-wan/</link>
		<comments>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/02/01/affording-birth-you-wan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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>Rethinking the nature of intervention in childbirth</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/01/16/rethinking-the-nature-of-intervention-in-childbirth/</link>
		<comments>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/01/16/rethinking-the-nature-of-intervention-in-childbirth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prepforbirth.com/?p=932</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is much awareness and conversation of what the routine interventions are that can occur during the labor and birth process within the hospital environment.  These interventions can include induction, augmentation with Pitocin, epidural, or cesarean. In all my professional and personal roles, I am privy to a great amount of pregnancy and birth stories. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help me be a Top 50 Mommy Blogger &#8211; Cast your Vote</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/01/08/help-me-be-a-top-50-mommy-blogger-cast-your-vote/</link>
		<comments>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/01/08/help-me-be-a-top-50-mommy-blogger-cast-your-vote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prepforbirth.com/?p=917</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Help me out! Click below and vote for me to be a Top Mommy Blogger. I would love to make Top 10.
Top 50 Mommy Bloggers Vote for me under PrepForBirth!
Thank you!
Desirre
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		<title>Sisterhood of the Scar Revisited</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/01/03/sisterhood-of-the-scar-revisited/</link>
		<comments>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/01/03/sisterhood-of-the-scar-revisited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prepforbirth.com/?p=908</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago I wrote this piece after attending my very first ICAN conference in San Diego in 2005. I read this and part of me weeps for her, for the me I was and for the women who are becoming part of this sisterhood willingly, wittingly or not.  My pain has been transformed into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some thoughts on birth and being a consumer.</title>
		<link>http://prepforbirth.com/2010/01/03/birth-consumerism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prepforbirth.com/?p=905</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While &#8220;teaching&#8221; childbirth class the topic of being a consumer is addressed often in a variety of ways.  I have a firm belief that a woman has the ability to understand, be well educated, and make her own decisions based on what she wants and needs. It is in no way in my job description [...]]]></description>
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