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Article: The Power of Birth Stories.
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- March 22, 1997
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1997 Association of Labor Assistants & Childbirth Educators. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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This article is gratefully reprinted from The Detroit News 1/2/96 and the Winter 1996 issue of Expectations, the Quarterly Newsletter of the Michigan Midwives Association.
You're at a party of strangers, so you hover around the buffet taking stock. Suddenly you catch a fragment of a conversation and you feel at home. "I was 75 percent effaced and dilated to one centimeter, so I wanted someone to tell me where I was," one woman is saying to another. You are immediately put at ease and you join the conversation.
Whatever else has changed in childbirth over the centuries, one thing has stayed the same: Women are drawn together to tell their stories. On any ...