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Body:	<div class="NTForums_Quote">Posted By n/a on 09/25/2007 3:38 AM<br>Hello! I wanted to thank you again for all your inspiration. I just recently re-read your rebuttal to Atul Gawande's New Yorker article. I also sent it on to a lawyer who is currently due with her third baby. Last week she was having such strong contractions that she went to the hospital thinking that baby was on its way. I spent the next nine hours reassuring her and her husband that her noninterventional choices were valid and safe. Amazingly, she went home having had only cervical checks after the labor stopped. She is still pregnant and waiting but flabbergasted at the lack of informed choice. She is showing that same spark of interest in birth advocacy that I found last spring. Since then I have started regularly speaking at prenatal yoga classes. Every month I find another woman who had resigned herself to mainstream obstetrical care despite her intuition that this was not right for her and her family. I am grateful that I am able to connect them with a network of people to find an alternative. I have also started to help teach a childbirth education class for homebirthers. I am in a dialogue with some obstetrician friends to teach childbirth education classes at their office. I have tried to get water tubs into one of the local hospitals and failed. I am writing on every topic I answer questions on in the hopes of compiling it all someday. I joined two chapters of ICAN and spoke once. I have met with midwives in our area as well as a retired family practitioner who used to attend home births here. So much to do and so little time. Thanks again for the inspiration!</div><br><br>
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