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A Question Of Words
A number of authors have called attention to the language we commonly use in discussing birth and how particular words shape our understanding of birth.
Photo by Cornelia Enning
A number of authors have called attention to the language we commonly use in discussing birth and how particular words shape our understanding of birth.
Heather Mains, BFA, CD (DONA), MA, has been a doula, attending births since 1994 and advocating on behalf of improved maternity services for more than a decade. She based this article on a lecture she gave at York University's Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) conference on Mothering and Spirituality in October 2003.
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