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The Department of health wants to tackle the excessive number of cesareans
(Sanidad quiere combatir el exceso de cesáreas)
J. Albarrán Bugié Barcelona
ADN 20/09/2007

Seven Catalan hospitals promote non-medicalised natural birth

(Siete hospitales públicos de Cataluña impulsan el parto natural no medicalizado)
Ana Pantaleoni and David Casals
El País 17/04/07

More hospitals will attend natural births

(Més hospitals assistirán parts naturals)
Televisió de Catalunya 29/03/2007

It's my birth
(El parto es mío)
Luz Sánchez-Mellado
El País Semanal 25/03/07

Women will be offered a choice of birthing position in all public hospitals. (Andalucia)
(Salud ofrecerá a las mujeres la elección de la postura de parto en todas las maternidades)
Tereixa Constenla
El País Andalucia 30/12/2006

Birth, a natural process thats gets "medicalised"
(El parto, un proceso que se "medicaliza")
Mercedes Serraller
El Mundo 03/11/2006

The Ministry for Health considers that the number of caesareans in private hospitals is "excessive"
(Sanidad ve "excesivo" el porcentage de cesáreas en los hospitales privados)
El Mundo 19/10/2006

The disaster of giving birth
(El desastre de parir)
Rosa Montero
El País 13/08/2006

Warm births
(Partos cálidos)
Paloma Arenós
La Vanguardia 25/06/2006