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		<title>The Tao of Snacking: Medicinal Foods in Winter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Choices in Childbirth welcomes Zoe Kogan, our first guest blogger for our monthly Provider Blog. We also want to give a big thank you to Milon Nagi, our blog editor and long-time supporter and volunteer. By Zoe Kogan, L.Ac. Brooklynacupuncture.com In Chinese medicine food may be used therapeutically.  Pregnancy is an especially beneficial time to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=choicesinchildbirth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10307260&amp;post=436&amp;subd=choicesinchildbirth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recommendations from the Home Birth Consensus Summit Released This Week:</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Elan McAllister I recently had the great good fortune to travel to Virginia and participate in the Home Birth Consensus Summit. The Summit brought together multidisciplinary stakeholders from across the maternity care system including midwives, consumers, obstetricians, insurers, policy makers, consumer advocates, pediatricians, family practice doctors, nurses, researchers, neonatologists, ethicists and hospital administrators. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=choicesinchildbirth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10307260&amp;post=421&amp;subd=choicesinchildbirth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where is the line between feeling powerless and feeling empowered in birth? Is it even something over which we have any choice? At CIC’s most recent Healthy Birth Choices workshop we heard three moms describe how consciously choosing where and with whom to give birth made it possible for them to birth their babies the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=choicesinchildbirth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10307260&amp;post=325&amp;subd=choicesinchildbirth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CIC Honored by NYSALM</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CIC is proud to be recognized by NYSALM for our contribution to the passage of the Midwifery Modernization Act!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=choicesinchildbirth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10307260&amp;post=320&amp;subd=choicesinchildbirth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day! (and Happy Birthday, CIC!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Valentine’s Day to You and Happy Birthday to Choices in Childbirth!

At the close of this surprisingly lovely, spring-like Valentine’s Day in NYC, I’m flashing back to a similarly cold but sunny day precisely 7 years ago when Choices in Childbirth organized its first public action in Union Square.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=choicesinchildbirth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10307260&amp;post=317&amp;subd=choicesinchildbirth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peaceful Protest (in NYC) to Free Imprisoned Hungarian OB/GYN</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CORRECTION &#8211; Gereb is an OB/GYN. She was previously referred to as a midwife. Fellow Birth Activists and Healthy Birth Supporters &#8211; Please join us to support Dr. Agnes Gereb. Dr. Agnes Gere is an ob.gyn who has been providing home birth services for more than 20 years. She was about to publish Spiritual Midwifery [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=choicesinchildbirth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10307260&amp;post=310&amp;subd=choicesinchildbirth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Join Choices in Childbirth and ACNM at the 8th Annual Miles for Midwives Event!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[8th Annual Miles for Midwives 5k Race &#38; Community Wellness Fair Saturday, October 2nd 10:00am-2:00pm Bartel-Pritchard Square Prospect Park South Sign up now for NYC&#8217;s largest celebration of midwifery! Join the NYC Chapter of American College of Nurse-Midwives and Choices in Childbirth for a day of fun to promote community wellness, increase awareness of midwives and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=choicesinchildbirth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10307260&amp;post=307&amp;subd=choicesinchildbirth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Victory for VBAC: ACOG revises its position</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advocates of women’s rights and maternity care activists are celebrating today as The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) announces its revised position on Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC).  After a longstanding position designed to bar women from attempting a vaginal birth after a cesarean delivery (a position that has contributed to rising rates [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=choicesinchildbirth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10307260&amp;post=300&amp;subd=choicesinchildbirth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MMA Victory!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Midwifery Modernization Act has been passed in the Assembly and (unanimously!) in the Senate! It now awaits Gov. Patterson&#8217;s signature. This bill allows midwives to serve women without the bureaucratic  constraint of a written practice agreement. Women in the state of New York will now have access to more care, and more options, in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=choicesinchildbirth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10307260&amp;post=296&amp;subd=choicesinchildbirth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Men and Birth &#8211; June 21st!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Choices in Childbirth invites you to&#8230;. &#8230;our June Healthy Birth Choices Meeting Men and Birth Are you an expectant father preparing for the birth of your child? Come hear new fathers share their stories about how they supported their partners before, during and after the birth of their child. Get practical ideas for helping your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=choicesinchildbirth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10307260&amp;post=289&amp;subd=choicesinchildbirth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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