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	<title>Three Rivers Birth Services</title>
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	<description>Birth doula services &#38; Birthing From Within childbirth education classes in Richland, Pasco &#38; Kennewick, WA</description>
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		<title>Announcing a professional Mentor/Apprentice relationship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am excited to announce that I have entered into a professional mentor/apprentice relationship with new doula, Melissa Reid, of In Bloom Birth Support.  What we&#8217;ve worked out is that when she is hired, I will mentor her via email, phone and in-person support through the prenatal and postpartum times for her client.  Depending on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.threeriversbirth.com/?p=441</link>
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		<title>7 out of 10 pregnant women not getting enough Vitamin D</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent study is showing that as much as 7 out of 10 pregnant women in the US are low on levels of Vitamin D. Vitamin D is important to bone health and development in both mother and fetus.  Vitamin D deficiency can lead to rickets, a weakening of bones, and early in life has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.threeriversbirth.com/?p=426</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Gas and Air&#8221; &#8212; a gentler approach to pharmacological pain management in labor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first introduction to nitrous oxide and oxygen &#8212; or &#8220;gas and air&#8221; &#8212; as an option for pain management in labor was reading about an American woman giving birth in the UK a few years ago.  She was surprised and happy that with this birth, she felt more in control of her labor experience, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.threeriversbirth.com/?p=421</link>
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		<title>Exercise beneficial all the way to end of pregnancy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sounds like our mothers and grandmothers were mistaken when they told us to take it easy during pregnancy: a new study shows that both mother and baby are not harmed when mom keeps exercising through to the end of pregnancy.  What&#8217;s more &#8211; there may be some benefit: &#8220;Sedentary mothers of higher pre-gestational weight gave [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.threeriversbirth.com/?p=419</link>
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		<title>Start avoiding gestational diabetes pre-pregnancy, research says</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have found for the first time that drinking more than 5 servings of sugar-sweetened cola a week prior to pregnancy appears to significantly elevate the risk of developing diabetes during pregnancy. Link to study What this tells me is good news for those of you not yet pregnant: you may have the opportunity, right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.threeriversbirth.com/?p=417</link>
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		<title>Dads and Doulas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out this great article from About.com, written by a dad who was not as excited as her wife was about their hiring a doula&#8230;and did a 180 degree turn from that opinion after the birth. http://pregnancy.about.com/od/doula1/a/dads-and-doulas.htm Although I won&#8217;t let a couple hire me unless BOTH of them agree and want me there, often [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.threeriversbirth.com/?p=413</link>
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		<title>Breast pump induction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It happens to a lot of my clients; we&#8217;re nearing to the point where their provider wants to induce labor and the mom is desperate to get labor started more naturally.  When talking to the provider on putting it off doesn&#8217;t work (this is STILL an induction and has risks), this may be another way.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.threeriversbirth.com/?p=400</link>
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		<title>New hospital room design takes focus off the labor bed and on movement and comfort</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of us doulas help women understand that moving around during labor, as opposed to curling up in a bed, helps labor progress quicker (on the average, 1 hour shorter, according to research) and with better results for baby&#8217;s positioning during birth.  However, current hospital rooms have the bed as a focal point as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.threeriversbirth.com/?p=398</link>
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		<title>My Statistics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been conflicted about showing my statistics regarding my doula services and childbirth education.  On one hand, as a Birthing From Within mentor, I feel strongly that birth education and doula services shouldn&#8217;t be outcome-focused.  I don&#8217;t want people reading these statistics and get angry with themselves if they become in the minority and decide [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.threeriversbirth.com/?p=380</link>
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		<title>Giving birth in prison, shackled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Women who give birth in prison in most states are regularly shackled, preventing them from moving about during labor, and as anyone knows who&#8217;s ever attended one, women almost always move and change position during birth.  Although the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has released a position saying that this is inhumane, only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.threeriversbirth.com/?p=377</link>
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