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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 12:00 AM

Extreme childbirth

Doula, schmoula: adherents of "freebirthing" go it totally solo.
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  • Wednesday, May 16, 2007 12:41 PM

    Labor pain is what?

    "Labor pain as a psychosomatic response to fear?" Are you kidding me? I haven't been through it myself, but it seems to me that simple physics would refute that one. Orifice roughly the size of a lime, accommodating the passage of an item the size of a watermelon? The word OW springs to mind. Repeatedly.

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