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  <title><![CDATA[Spiritual Midwifery]]></title>
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  <default_description>This classic book on home birth is now in its 4th edition. Includes updated information on the safety of natural childbirth, new birthing stories, and the most recent statistics on births managed by The Farm Midwives. Also presents stories of working with Amish women, showing a different culture with a similar appreciation for natural childbirth.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">3</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2002</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Spiritual Midwifery</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ina May Gaskin]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[all women and anyone who likes them]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Feb 12 18:39:12 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's books like this that really make it clear to me that mainstream culture is completely ass-backwards, especially when it comes to healthcare (and most specifically, OB/GYN).  20 years of successful natural, positive, non-damaging childbirth on The Farm goes a long way toward proving that routine...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15290201">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Nov 16 06:33:14 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 16 17:24:51 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Laura found this first edition (1975) at the flea market next door.  How could we turn this down?  It's the first hand account - told by the mothers and fathers and midwives - of about 200 of the 372 births (thus far) on a giant culty hippie baby making farm in Tennessee.  Followed by instructions f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9189187">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8591519">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Nov 02 19:44:26 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 02 20:25:31 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book changed my life. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. I was lost, I was tired of trying to find direction. One day at the health food store I wandered to the book section and I was drawn to the cover of this book... When I opened the pages it was like the clouds parted and a bea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8591519">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13401455">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone considering homebirth]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Donna Hensley]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 24 10:18:38 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 24 10:23:21 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the greatest book...in it I found a lot of the inspiration I needed to be able to birth at home. Ina May Gaskin is one of the greatest midwives of our time, I do believe. She is a pioneer in the field, and the Farm still provides services for those who wish a natural birth in more diffcult c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13401455">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19464336">
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[my midwife]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Apr 04 13:40:58 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Apr 05 10:42:09 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book before the home births of each of my three children. Yes, it's hokey. Yes, it's dated. There's a lot of long hair, beards and wire-rimmed glasses. BUT the pictures and birth stories are worth it. When I was looking for information on healthy, involved births, Ina May Gaskin provided...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19464336">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76124810">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1975</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Oct 29 10:49:14 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 29 11:02:45 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book and I are old friends, from its beginnings as a chapter in the &quot;Hey Beatnik This Is The Farm! 'zie  that portrayed life on the Tennessee Farm in its early years (early 1970s) through every edition of the full guide for midwives and collection of birthing stories that has appeared. I h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76124810">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70146326">
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Sep 05 08:44:23 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 05 08:44:23 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This has been, and still is, a very important book for pregnancy.  Ina May's desire to change the way we think about birth is admirable.<br/><br/>That said, this book was not useful to me when I was pregnant, nor did it help prepare me for birth.  In fact, for someone who was already of the mind t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70146326">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52417843">
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Apr 12 15:21:50 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Apr 13 11:39:44 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished up the first half of the book, which is more amazing birth stories (like in Ina May's Guide to Childbirth.) This book, although I have the most current edition (2002)...is very 70's in it's language and pictures. If you can get over the use of the words 'heavy' and 'psycadelic'...the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52417843">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22894701">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone even remotely interested in birth]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat May 24 18:41:25 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 08 08:51:55 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't be turned off by the outdated language and fashion in this book.  It has the potential to change your whole outlook on birth and pregnancy.  Even just reading the first half, which is all birthing stories, is very inspiring.  There is also information for parents and midwives.  I would highly ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22894701">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21121124">
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    <name><![CDATA[Terresa]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Henderson, NV]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Apr 27 15:29:48 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 27 15:33:55 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A trippy, hippy book about Ina May and her adventures at &quot;The Farm&quot; including homebirth midwifery and the works.  It is an honest, graphic book (well, it's natural birth, what do you expect?).  ;) An insightful, educational book; be careful, this book may turn your world upside down about ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21121124">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59974454">
    <user id="309856">
    <name><![CDATA[Antoinette Maria]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Brooklyn, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jun 16 20:01:28 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 01 09:19:24 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved the birth stories even though sometimes the hippie-ness of it is a little off putting.  E.g., there are people who've had amazing natural childbirth experiences who don't need to live in the middle of nowhere, prefer the word contraction to rushes and would never use the word &quot;psychedelic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59974454">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="64897592">
    <user id="664692">
    <name><![CDATA[Katrina]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Salt Lake City, UT]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jul 25 08:52:46 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 25 08:59:00 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finally read Ina May Gaskin's books. I have no idea why I didn't read them when I was pregnant. I think they weren't at the library and then I forgot. Anyway, I decided to just buy them. I read this one first since she wrote it first. The first edition was published in 1975. Some of the birth stor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64897592">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19981800">
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    <name><![CDATA[Akhenaten]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Apr 11 21:10:38 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Apr 11 21:12:45 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's certainly not the most original thing to say, but I was profoundly changed by Spiritual Midwifery's early edition (created in the 1970s). The latest edition is so significantly different as to count as a separate book, in my mind. Both editions are vital to independent birth knowledge/learning....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19981800">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15739428">
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    <name><![CDATA[Sharon]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1991</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Feb 18 17:23:39 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Feb 18 17:26:32 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[O MY GOSH you have to read this book if you are going to  or have given birth at home or just want to have a wide awake natural childbirth!!! It left me with the confident knowledge that I wasn't the first, I won't be the last, and birth first and foremost belongs to women, not doctors.]]></body>
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    <review id="56165740">
    <user id="88033">
    <name><![CDATA[Elizabeth]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri May 15 07:27:55 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 10 10:15:26 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Holy wow, where do I even start?  I guess I have to start by saying two things: <br/><br/>1) This book changed my life.<br/><br/>2) I think every single woman should read this book.<br/><br/>Although the central theme of the book is midwifery, in essence, it's just this really, really amazing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56165740">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70441234">
    <user id="2463748">
    <name><![CDATA[Kendal]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Sep 07 23:47:40 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 07 23:53:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book helped me to push out a healthy child with minimal interference.  Just reading other womens' natural birth stories and some handy tips from the midwives (get on hands and knees!  bellow like a cow!  the sphincter law!) gave me the extra confidence I needed that my baby would come out grace...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70441234">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i'm starting a new virtual bookshelf for pregnancy/childbirth/parenting books i like because there are many i don't like and i'd love to save people from wading through the loads of [what i consider] crap that i have.<br/><br/>my lamaze instructor lent me this book and it stayed on the coffee tabl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21468713">more...</a>]]></body>
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