For hundreds of thousands of years before the advent of the epidural and pharmaceutical pain products, women gave birth naturally and without the use of medications or interventions. Yet for modern women, the thought of giving birth without an epidural can be a frightening concept, no matter how much a woman desires natural childbirth. A lot of information out there seems to claim that if you just think happy thoughts and believe childbirth doesn’t have to be painful…it won’t be.
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Want a Natural Epidural? Hire a Doula.
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Submitted by growbabygreen on Thu, 2008-03-27 03:06. | Tags: business | culture | health | science | take action | childbirth | delivery | doulas | epidural | labor | natural childbirth | natural epidural
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Door to Door Organics
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Great post on a business I didn't know existed until now.
Submitted by chazthetic on Thu, 2008-01-31 18:52. | Tags: food | delivery | natural | organic | produce

Computer solution to delivery problem
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With the gift-giving season almost upon us and increasing concerns about the environmental effects of all those deliveries and pickups, it is timely that researchers should turn their attention to the so-called Traveling Salesman Problem. Writing in a forthcoming issue of the Inderscience publication the International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, researchers suggest a new approach to cutting journey times of courier services everywhere.