Midwives see renewed interest in natural births (Billings Gazette)
As she labored to deliver her eighth child, Tamar Van Wingerden squatted on an exercise ball in her living room, stood in her shower until the hot water ran out and then - for the final push - climbed into her own bed.

Controversies in Childbirth Conference Announces Sessions and Speakers (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
DALLAS & FORT WORTH, Texas----The preliminary schedule of sessions and speakers has been announced for the Controversies in Childbirth Conference , the first-ever open forum for voicing diverse opinions in timely discussion and debate, to be held March 27-29, at the Fort Worth Convention Center.

Baby, Youre Home (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
A growing number of women have been opting to give birth in the intimate and familiar surroundings of home even in small New York City apartments.

Glaser Foundation Program Trains HIV-Positive Pregnant Women To Administer Nevirapine To Infants Following Home Births (Medical News Today)
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation has completed the pilot phase of a home-based program in Uganda that teaches HIV-positive pregnant women how to administer the antiretroviral nevirapine to their infants immediately after birth to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the virus, New Vision reports.

Africa: Daily HIV/Aids Report (AllAfrica.com)
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Post It - November 5 (Burlington Post)
The Post's popular community events calendar — Post It — publishes notices of free community events and meetings organized by local non-profit groups.

I owe everything to blood donors (Oldham Chronicle)
GIVE and let live. That's the message from Government ministers who have written to every secondary school and college urging them to teach young people about blood, bone marrow, tissue and organ donation.

Uganda: HIV Prevention- Neverapine Repackaged for Home Births (AllAfrica.com)
MAJORITY of women in poor countries, especially in Africa, do not deliver at health facilities. Neither do they return for post-natal checkups or skilled assessment of the infant. This increases the chances of HIV infection.

Around the nation (Arizona Daily Star)
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Midwives are much like lighthouses in uncharted waters, says new mother (The Huntsville Forester)
At 4:30 a.m. on Sept. 9 I was awoken by a small gush of fluid. ‘It can't be,' I thought. I was 37 weeks pregnant and still had three weeks to go. But as I got out of bed and woke my husband, it became clearer that my water had indeed broken and I was in the early stage of labour.