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Laboring for love

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Midwife Shay Huffman has been practicing in a rural area of West Virginia for 18 years. She has helped over 200 women give birth at home despite state laws that forbid traditional midwifery. Entire families are often present at the birth and sometime Huffman brings her own children to witness the birth.

Author: Johnson, Lynn, Nyary, Sasha
Publisher: Time, Inc.
Publication Name: Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0024-3019
Year: 1995
Management, Practice, Midwives, Childbirth at home, Home childbirth

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Rondie's gift: a life-and-death choice teaches a mother and daughter about love, faith and hope

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Rondie Harris died at age 17 due to complications following a multi-organ transplant. She suffered from a rare disease called chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction, which caused her small intestine, pancreas, large and small bowels to deteriorate.

Author: Johnson, Lynn, Dowling, Claudia, Glenn
Publisher: Time, Inc.
Publication Name: Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0024-3019
Year: 1997
Case studies, Sick children, Mothers and daughters, Mother-daughter relations, Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc., Organ transplantation, Tissue transplantation, Transplantation, Gastrointestinal diseases

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