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    |April 6, 2016
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    In this column, Sara Wickham takes a sideways look at issues relevant to midwives, students, women and families, inviting us to sit down with a cup of tea and ponder what we think we know. As it is always useful to consider how we can facilitate physiological labour and birth, this month Sara shares some of the tips that she has gathered from midwives and other birth workers about how they help women and families to lower the light levels and create the semi-darkness which many people feel is conducive to normal birth.

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