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“I wanted to let people know what happened to me,” August said. “Give young women options, make them aware of a cascade of interventions and how you can get sucked into it if you go…
Who can be licensed as a midwife in Illinois is likely to expand soon. But home births attended by midwives under this new law would not be eligible for Medicaid coverage, at least for the…
For Star August, the birth of her first son in 2009 was nothing short of traumatic. “[I woke] up from a drug-induced coma to find my son being resuscitated next to me,” August said. August…
Debbie Boucher is the rare midwife who has been able to legally perform home births in Illinois. She’s able to do so through her company, Childbirth the Way Nature Intended, Inc., without fear of running afoul…
For Star August, the birth of her first son did not go as planned. August hired an out-of-hospital midwife to guide her through the pregnancy but attended checkups in a hospital as a cost-saving measure.…
