Baby, You're Home

A growing number of women have been opting to give birth in the intimate and familiar surroundings of home - even in small New York City apartments. This is an interesting article published in the New York Times this month illustrating how American women are returning to home birth in search of more satisfying birth experiences.

SQUATTING in an inflatable pool in the open kitchen of her apartment in Astoria, Queens, a very pregnant Alecia White Scharback, nude except for a bathing suit top, groaned in pain. It was 7:30 a.m. on Nov. 1, and Mrs. Scharback, 29, an actress, had been in labor for more than 36 hours. The contractions had been only mildly painful at first, but had grown increasingly fierce as a second night gave way to morning.
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