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Midwives!

Submitted by Hilary_Brashear on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 3:02pm.

I would like to represent the group of modern day midwives in the US.

Midwives have been around for hundreds of years and were the main way women used to give birth. With industrialization and enlightenment a division between surgeons, who were considered more modern, scientific and male, and midwives who were considered "folk medicine" and female. Today about 5% of the births in the US are attended by midwives, according to MidwifeUSA.com. The US also has one of the highest infant mortality rates of industrialized countries. The major difference? 75% of European births are attended to by a midwife. 

The stigma that midwives are not as "serious" as doctors still exists in the United States and I would like to represent the practicing midwives in the United States who challenge that stigma.

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