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		<title>Healthy Mother talks to Channel 6 Magazine about Natural Birth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Channel 6 magazine recently spoke to Krishnan Sakotai and Vijaya Krishnan about how Healthy Mother began and the Midwifery Model of Care they are pioneering in India. Here is the link to the article]]></description>
		<link>http://healthy-mother.com/healthy-mother-channel6-interview</link>
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		<title>Healthy Mother Lamaze Classes in Ahmedabad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Healthy Mother continues the expansion of its certified Lamaze Childbirth Education Centers to its latest location in Ahmedabad. Starting in June expectant couples in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, will learn from expert Childbirth Educators how they empower themselves with knowledge and means to have a safe, healthy pregnancy and try for natural birth. Healthy Mother is India&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthy-mother.com/lamaze-classes-in-ahmedabad</link>
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		<title>Breastfeeding &#8211; The gold standard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More and more recent research and systematic reviews are reinforcing the conclusion that breast feeding and human milk are the reference gold standards for infant feeding and nutrition. The World Health Organization recommends exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months, and breastfeeding for upto 2 years as long as it is mutually beneficial to mother and baby. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthy-mother.com/breastfeeding-the-gold-standard</link>
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		<title>When to bathe the newborn?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Can we bathe our newborn baby?&#8221; This is one of the most common questions that comes up immediately after birth at our Healthy Mother Natural Birthing Center. While a massage and bath do lots of good in babies, we recommend that the first bath be delayed for at least a few hours, preferably 24 hours. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthy-mother.com/bathingthenewborn</link>
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		<title>Choose your Birth Team wisely</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Warren Buffet&#8217;s legendary right hand man Charlie Munger delivered the 2007 USC Graduation speech in which he said The highest form a civilization can reach is a seamless web of deserved trust. Not much procedure, just totally reliable people correctly trusting one another. When you as expectant couples seek out a hospital or maternity center [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthy-mother.com/choose-your-birth-team-wisely</link>
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		<title>Difference between Midwifery Model of Care and Obstetric Model of Care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a great comparison between the Midwifery Model of Care and the Obstetric Model of Care which I found here. In India too the obstetric model looks at pregnancy and birth as a medical crisis fraught with risk. That is why we have such high rates of c-section (80%) and why there is so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthy-mother.com/midwifery-model-of-care-2</link>
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		<title>More evidence about mother-baby adverse outcomes with epidural analgesia during labor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As more and more hospitals offer epidural analgesia during labor for pain relief, and more and more mothers accept it as a &#8220;must-have&#8221;, it is important that you become fully informed re: all the pros and cons about choosing to have one. Over and above other well-known adverse effects such as lowered blood pressure in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthy-mother.com/more-evidence-about-mother-baby-adverse-outcomes-with-epidural-analgesia-during-labor</link>
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		<title>Advantages of Midwifery-led Model of Care: from Cochrane Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At Healthy Mother we advocate and practice Midwifery Model of Care which has many benefits over conventional &#8220;medical model&#8221;. This excerpt from review of the different models of care published by Cochrane Collaboration summarizes the conclusions of a study conducted for this purpose. I am quoting below verbatim the summary of this review: Midwife-led care [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthy-mother.com/cochrane-review</link>
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		<title>Birth Story</title>
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		<link>http://healthy-mother.com/birth-story</link>
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		<title>Benefits of waiting till 39 weeks for your baby to be born</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following picture put out by March of Dimes is a great way of impressing upon mothers to &#8220;challenge&#8221; their doctors if they are forced to be induced at 37 weeks. Study after study has proven that absent any evident medical problem babies need minimum of 39 weeks or till the time of spontaneous birth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthy-mother.com/benefits-of-waiting-till-39-weeks-for-your-baby-to-be-born</link>
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