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		<title>Having a baby will no longer cost an arm and a leg</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2010/01/08/changes-to-obstetric-safety-net-are-fair-despite-foul-cries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Budget cuts to the obstetric safety net took effect on January 1. But are families in for an "expensive surprise"? Actually, it'll be a fairer system designed to cut down on inflated medical costs by providers, writes <b>Sally Tracy</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Midwives damn AMA-induced amendments to maternity reform</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/14/midwives-damn-ama-induced-amendments-to-maternity-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/14/midwives-damn-ama-induced-amendments-to-maternity-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rather than listening to medical advice on the long-awaited maternity reforms, the government pays attention to a union more focused on protecting incomes than helping prospective mothers, writes <b>Professor Lesley Barclay</b> and <b>Professor Sally Tracy</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Vaginas &#8211; who are they and when are they leaving</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/21/first-dog-on-the-moon-384/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/21/first-dog-on-the-moon-384/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Firstdog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[homebirth]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[vagina vagina vagina!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The true truth about homebirth.
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		<title>Home birth wingnuts shouting down major steps forward for midwifery</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/21/home-birth-wingnuts-shouting-down-major-steps-forward-for-midwifery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/21/home-birth-wingnuts-shouting-down-major-steps-forward-for-midwifery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[childbirth]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nicola Roxon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nurses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rosemary Bryant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No one is stopping Australian women who want home births from choosing them, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>A veil of secrecy over home births?</title>
		<link>http://www.smh.com.au/national/midwife-laws-may-force-homebirths-underground-20090817-enos.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.smh.com.au/national/midwife-laws-may-force-homebirths-underground-20090817-enos.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Senate committee has acknowledged that the new changes to midwifery registration will possibly "drive home births underground", since the government will not cover medical indemnity insurance for home births.]]></description>
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		<title>The Maldives are sinking too</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/28/tips-and-rumours-63/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/28/tips-and-rumours-63/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips and rumours]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Crikey tipster says today: <a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/27/kiribati-and-tuvulu-plan-climate-change-strategy-total-evacuation/">Oxfam AND Crikey</a> have forgotten the Maldives, whose president recently announced he was looking to evacuate his entire 350,000 people to either Sri Lanka or Indonesia.]]></description>
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		<title>On the pain of childbirth</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/16/to-whom-it-may-concern-on-the-pain-of-child-birth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/16/to-whom-it-may-concern-on-the-pain-of-child-birth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can statements about childbirth, pain and preparing for motherhood be 'innocent'? asks DW from Nottingham.]]></description>
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		<title>The pain of childbirth is &#8216;valuable&#8217;. So suck it up</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/14/the-pain-of-childbirth-is-valuable-so-suck-it-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/14/the-pain-of-childbirth-is-valuable-so-suck-it-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Black</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[childbirth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the pain that comes from pushing something the size of a watermelon out of something the size of a lemon is "valuable." Say what? asks <b>Sophie Black</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>39</slash:comments>
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		<title>Labour in pain: should women say no to the epidural?</title>
		<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8147179.stm</link>
		<comments>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8147179.stm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=73273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just what women need. Senior midwife Dr Denis Walsh has written in <em>Evidence Based Midwifery</em> that although epidurals are sometimes important, pain can help regulate the birth process.]]></description>
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		<title>Health budget: clever, but way off</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/13/health-budget-clever-but-way-off/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/13/health-budget-clever-but-way-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 03:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 09]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The health budget measures are a clever response to a difficult situation, writes <b>Robert Wells</b>.]]></description>
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