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What's A Woman To Doula?

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Tuesday, January 27, 2004

Childbirth can be both wonderful and scary at the same time. Recently some women have turned to doulas to help them cope. A doula (ancient Greek: "slave") acts as an advocate, teacher and coach through the pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenthood.

Don't Shoot!

Charles Barron City Council Member(D-Brooklyn - District 42)
on the shooting of Timothy Stansbury in Brooklyn Heather Macdonald Senior Fellow At the Manhattan Institute, and author, Are Cops Racist? How the War Against the Police Harms Black Americans (Ivan R. Dee, 2003)
on the ...

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Do Ya' Have a Doula?

Ilana Stein childbirth educator, labor support doula, and director of Birth Focus , an agency for doulas on the role of the "doula" in childbirth
discusses the role of a doula during and after labor.

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Special Kay

Scott Ritter Former UN weapons inspector and Gulf War vet on former weapons inspector David Kay's comments on weapons of Mass Destruction

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Listener Call ins

The thoroughly unscientific Brian Lehrer Show exit polls-democratic candidates

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