Comments on: Ricki Lake discusses documentary at benefit screening http://celebrity-babies.com/2008/01/10/ricki-lake-re-p/ Celebrating the lifestyle of Hollywood's newest moms and littlest stars. Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:10:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Lisa Litton http://celebrity-babies.com/2008/01/10/ricki-lake-re-p/#comment-87786 Lisa Litton Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:05:50 +0000 http://peoplecbb.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/ricki-lake-re-p#comment-87786 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>I am a midwife with 20 years of experience "catching" babies in hospitals, birth centers and homes. I am very thrilled about the message of the film "The Business of Being Born" and hope that many American women (and their partners/families) will be inspired by the message of empowerment through midwife-assisted out-of-hospital birth. I sincerely believe that unless and until the U.S. switches to a midwifery model AND considers birth in homes and birth centers to be "ideal" for maternal and infant health the U.S. will continue to have very poor maternal and infant morbidity and mortality outcomes in comparison with those countries in which midwifery care is the "norm". I know this is a radical statement but feel its truth is unassailable. Lisa, C.N.M. (Certified Nurse Midwife)</p> </div>

I am a midwife with 20 years of experience “catching” babies in hospitals, birth centers and homes. I am very thrilled about the message of the film “The Business of Being Born” and hope that many American women (and their partners/families) will be inspired by the message of empowerment through midwife-assisted out-of-hospital birth. I sincerely believe that unless and until the U.S. switches to a midwifery model AND considers birth in homes and birth centers to be “ideal” for maternal and infant health the U.S. will continue to have very poor maternal and infant morbidity and mortality outcomes in comparison with those countries in which midwifery care is the “norm”. I know this is a radical statement but feel its truth is unassailable. Lisa, C.N.M. (Certified Nurse Midwife)

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