11.   National training standards for lay midwives set by the North American Registry of Midwives reflect the focus on home birth.

12.   She is a lay midwife, one who came to the birthing room by apprenticeship, rather than by university training, and who specializes in home birth.

13.   Sibyl, the midwife, is indicted for involuntary manslaughter, a charge pushed by the medical establishment long critical of home births by non-doctors.

14.   State officials say the issue of home births is irrelevant.

15.   The face painter had to leave to go to a home birth.

16.   The licensing law requires nurse-midwives to work under the supervision of a doctor, and very few doctors approve of home birth.

17.   The Seattle-based Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound will soon cover midwife-assisted home births.

18.   To bar them from practicing, they say, is to bar home births.

19.   While most licensed nurse-midwives do not assist home births, lay midwives specialize in them.

20.   Home births were not included.