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Dark red and green sheets hang in front of the chicken coop. It's last night's laundry drying now in a picturesque garden, laundry from a birth. Maresa Fiege, 38, is a midwife and is standing next to a herb bed. Here in Gerswalde, a village in the Uckermark, she opened Germany's first birth center, a birth house in the country.

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