April 18, 2005: Virginia: Nurse-midwives bring personal touch to births:"A half-mile away, the world's most modern war machines scream down the runway while Kristi Norcross practices a skill as old as life itself. "The first recorded midwives are in Genesis," she said while standing on the second floor of Langley Air Force Base Hospital, where she had a hand in delivering five babies on a recent Wednesday. Genesis 35:17 "And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her: Fear not; for now thou shalt have another son."
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Andrew Lopez, RN
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