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52. I think I read somewhere that the British have a different view of the childbirth process...

Tue May 7, 2019, 07:40 AM

May 2019

the use of a midwife is the preferred way, with use of what I presume was a "birthing center." It gets away from the over medicalization of childbirth while maintaining proper medical safeguards.

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