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Hilary Duff Shares Photos of Home Birth, Puppy Pads and All

Singer-actor welcomed third child, daughter Mae, in March

(Newser) - Younger star Hilary Duff welcomed her third child in March and is now sharing with fans how it happened, with a co-star along for the ride. In a Tuesday post on Instagram , Duff shared intimate photos of the home birth of daughter Mae James Bair in Los Angeles, showing the...

Midwife Faces 20 Years in Death of Breech Baby

Angela Hock, unlicensed, charged with negligent child abuse

(Newser) - An unlicensed midwife is facing charges after she unsuccessfully tried to deliver a breech baby, who later died. Angela Hock of Nebraska Birth Keeper was paid at least $3,000 to assist 25-year-old Emily Noe in delivering a baby at her Omaha home, per the Omaha World-Herald and KETV . Some...

Midwife Arrested for Delivering Mennonite Babies

Mennonites are making a rare public stand in her defense

(Newser) - Mennonite women in upstate New York are making a rare public stand to defend a midwife who has delivered hundreds of their babies. Elizabeth Catlin was arrested in November for, authorities say, practicing midwifery without a license. She's a certified professional midwife, but New York requires midwives to possess...

Home Births Up 20% ... as Doctors Voice Disapproval

1 in 143 births were at home in 2008, up from 1 in 179 in 2004

(Newser) - Home births rose 20% between 2004 and 2008, reflecting a small trend among some women toward natural birth, according to a government study. Fewer than 1% of US births occur at home, but the proportion is clearly going up. The increase was driven predominantly by white women: One in 98...

My Kids Watched Me Give Birth
 My Kids Watched 
 Me Give Birth  
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Sep 28, 2010 12:08 PM CDT

My Kids Watched Me Give Birth

And they weren't happy about it

(Newser) - Despite the fact that her 7- and 3-year-old daughters made it very clear they had no desire to watch her give birth, Madeline Holler was fairly determined to have them in the room. “I wanted them with me, the image of their brother's birth burned in their brains,”...

Stay-At-Home Mom, Indeed
Stay-At-Home Mom, Indeed
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Jun 27, 2008 4:08 PM CDT

Stay-At-Home Mom, Indeed

Home-birthing 'strange and magical,' but trade-offs hurt—like Mo. law against midwives

(Newser) - Home-birthing isn’t only strange and magical—it requires some covert-operation skills, Madeline Holler writes in Babble. After finding she preferred an attending midwife in the birth of her first child, Holler found using one for her second to be illegal in Missouri, where she'd moved. As such, she found,...

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