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Cory Turner/NPRA new state program offers any family with a new baby a no-cost visit at home with a trained nurse. It鈥檚 Oregon鈥檚 response to the country鈥檚 dismal infant and maternal mortality rates. -
Kyle Green/APFewer than half of rural hospitals have labor and delivery units, and the number keeps dropping.
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Giving birth at an out-of-hospital birth center is rarely covered by insurance plans. If it is, coverage is usually minimal. A bill under consideration by the Oregon legislature would increase access to birth options and midwifery care. -
There's little evidence that humans actually believed that babies were delivered by storks. But what people DID believe about human procreation is a very鈥� -
The news of a couple of weeks ago only confirmed the continuation of a trend: fewer American women are having babies. In fact, the most recent figures鈥� -
In other parts of the developed world, midwives deliver a lot of babies... like in England, where half the births involve midwives. Here, not so much.鈥� -
The medical process of giving birth has really changed. Some people alive today were born in sterile (in every sense) hospital rooms while their mothers鈥� -
To drug or not to drug? It's a tough question for the woman about to give birth. Natural childbirth is a great concept, but it is a pain-filled experience鈥� -
A woman who just had a baby may decide that's it; no more kids, at least for a while. But the most reliable methods of birth control, intrauterine device鈥�
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Giving birth is as natural as鈥� well, having a baby. Making connections to all the people who can help a mother give birth鈥� that can be trickier. Is your鈥�
