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	<description>Training the Next Generation of Midwives</description>
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		<title>Assumption of Innocence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 23:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As good midwives, leaders, and participants in our everyday lives we must be understanding, accepting and always compassionate despite the fact that we may find ourselves challenged by the beliefs or practices of others, especially as we travel the world. In this piece, Sarah Proechel Co-Founder of Midwife International and Board Member for the Midwife...]]></description>
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		<title>Midwives in Isolated Areas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 20:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this piece, Debbie Díaz Ortiz, an independent professional midwife and great-granddaughter of midwives in an isolated community of Puerto Rico, illuminates the power of terminology. She brings to light how the re-naming of the midwives who learn and practice in rural communities around the world as &#8220;traditional birth attendants&#8221; has had a damaging impact...]]></description>
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		<title>How Being a Midwife Made Me a Better Doctor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have many professional titles and roles: physician, midwife, herbalist, author, teacher. Of these, being a midwife most informs and enhances all of what I do and who I am. Midwife literally means “with woman.” But it also means, “to bring forth.” Midwives listen, coach, cheerlead, care, reassure, support, and speak truth. At my best, I...]]></description>
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		<title>Midwife International at Women Deliver in Malaysia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The most valuable investment is one in girls and women, and especially in mothers. Yet, maternal mortality remains one of the most prolific problems facing humanity today, leaving hundreds of thousands of children without mothers, families without sisters, and communities without beloved members. The impact of this global problem – which is reinforced by...]]></description>
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		<title>New Study Reveals Midwife-led Birth Centers a Key to Decreased Cesarean Rate, Lower Health Care Costs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over-medicalized birth in the United States is the largest contributor to healthcare costs across the country, and yet, birth outcomes are more and more out of a the mother&#8217;s control. With costs nearing $100 billion in the United States, and cesarean section rates soaring, experts are beginning to question the current paradigm and take a...]]></description>
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