In a message dated 1/1/99 9:45:06 AM Central Standard Time,
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<< We create the problems with birthing
 interventions and then cure it with nursery interventions.  10 of my
 grandchildren have been delivered by midwives, 12 babies with not one drop
 of drugs.  I think it makes a BIG difference.  The latest was born with
 epidural and desatted (turned blue) with first bottle and went to NICU for
 3 days - need I say any more? >>

Well, go visit an "old" cemetery and count the infant graves and then go to a
"new" cemetery and count the infant graves.  Need I say more?
Perhaps we should go back to the prehistoric "good ole days" when more than
50% of infants did not make it to one year of age.
To paraphrase a famous quote:  Those who do not know their history are doomed
to repeat it.
Your study of one out of 12 is hardly proof of anything.
IMHO
Andrew MD
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