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Study determines that midwife-led births contribute to safer birth outcomes.

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Dorothy Reed Mendenhall, one of the first professionally-trained physicians in the U.S., travels to Denmark to study their birthing practices and lower mortality rates. She argues that the rates are due to Denmark's support for midwife-led births and an at-home birthing experience.