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All stories for Sunday, May 11, 2008

Nobody loves you like mama does

The last time I witnessed a woman becoming a mother, it wasn’t anything like the frilly sentiments of Mother’s Day. She lay on her back, perspiring heavily and yelling,

Birthing ‘under the table’

In California, midwives everywhere are doing home births “under the table.” Whether they’ve been certified or trained on the job by another midwife, these women are practicing medicine without the supervision of a physician, which California law requires.