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		<title>More Business of Being Born</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends of Michigan Midwives will be hosting a benefit screening of “Down on the Farm: Conversations with Legendary Midwife Ina May Gaskin” at Center for the Childbearing Year, Thursday, May 17 at 7 pm. We would love to see any and all birth workers there! I hope you can join us.]]></description>
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		<title>Reducing Elective Deliveries: A Success Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the CIMS April e-newsletter:  Research has shown that early elective delivery (between 37 and 39 weeks of gestation) without medical or obstetrical indication is associated with neonatal morbidities with no benefit to the mother or infant. Induction of labor doubles the risk for cesarean section in first births thereby exposing mothers to harms associated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Women Than Ever Are Choosing Home Births</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the CIMS April e-newsletter:  According to recent data on home births published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) (based on 26 states, comprising 50% of U.S. births), reporting data on planning status of home birth in 2009,  there were 29,650 home births in the United States, the highest level since data on home births [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://center4cby.com/more-women-than-ever-are-choosing-home-births.html</link>
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		<title>Preemie Parent Alliance Website Launch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Preemie Parent Alliance (PPA) has launched their new website, created by parents of premature babies for other parents of preemies. PPA represents organizations that provide support to parents of babies born too small and too soon and is committed to helping its members provide quality information, resources, and support efficiently and effectively for the families they serve. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://center4cby.com/preemie-parent-alliance-website-launch.html</link>
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		<title>Car Seat Safety website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Children&#8217;s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has announced the launch of a new website, Car Seat Safety for Kids.&#8221; The site reflects current best practices and child passenger safety tech training and also includes CHOP&#8217;s popular videos Keeping Kids Safe in Crashes which have been fully updated based on current American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommendations. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://center4cby.com/car-seat-safety-website.html</link>
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		<title>Study: Early Language Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A study published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences questions common assumptions about language development in infants. The study authors report that it is widely accepted that infants begin to learn language by discovering features of speech including consonants, vowels, and combinations of these sounds. Learning the meaning of words (rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fish, Mercury and Nutrition: The Net Effects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new documentary educates pregnant and nursing mothers on why two ocean fish meals a week during the critical window of development can safely give their babies lifelong benefits. &#8220;Fish, Mercury and Nutrition: The Net Effects&#8221; presents the many benefits of eating ocean fish and the risk of mercury exposure for the population with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://center4cby.com/fish-mercury-and-nutrition-the-net-effects.html</link>
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		<title>My Safe Home website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new interactive website helps families identify dangers in their home and provides simple steps to fix them. My Safe Home was developed by Safe Kids Worldwide and uses 360-degree interactive technology to allow parents to explore all areas of a home or specific risk, like carbon monoxide poisoning. Safety information is available in both English and Spanish. Our bi-weekly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://center4cby.com/my-safe-home-website.html</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Admission Strip&#8221; increases cesarean rate by 20 percent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuous heart rate monitoring upon admission to a hospital (usually 20 minutes for an &#8220;admission strip&#8221; in triage) not only shows no benefit for low-risk women, but increases the cesarean rate by 20 percent, as compared to intermittent monitoring with a doppler. That&#8217;s according to a new review from the Cochrane Collaboration, published online February [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://center4cby.com/admission-strip-increases-cesarean-rate-by-20-percent.html</link>
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		<title>Study links induction with cesarean birth, NICU care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet another study has shown that induction for non-medical reasons at full-term increases a woman&#8217;s risk of cesarean birth and other adverse outcomes. Induction of labor for non-recognized indications was associated with a 67 percent increased relative risk of cesarean section, compared with spontaneous labor. Induction also significantly increased the chance of the newborn needing [...]]]></description>
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