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[ID] 292 [Interest Areas] Concerned Citizen Health Care Provider Other Areas: LLL member, working towards being a lactation professional [Comment] Women need to be encouraged to have as natural a childbirth as possible. Techniques such as Calm Birth, a program developed by Robert Newman and being used at forward reaching hospitals such as Overlook Hospital in New Jersey, should be promoted and taught to ALL pregnant women who choose to use Integral methods to prepare for childbirth. Women's choices need to be respected, the choice to have a home birth is as valid as the choice to have a hospital birth and needs to be treated as such by health care practioners and insurers. Women should not feel that a transfer to a hospital during a home birth should be difficult. The U.S. needs to look at the model Holland uses for birthing, OBs should be used for high risk pregnancy and midwives for uncomplicated births. In all cases, women and babies should not be separated unless absolutely indicated and skin to skin contact should be encouraged in the hospital immediately following birth. [Topic] 
Maternal and Infant Care Practices: Prenatal, Hospital, and Post-Delivery Care
Call To Action on Breastfeeding
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