Giving Birth

Why Do Moms Take Longer To Give Birth Today?

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Labor Times, Labor, Video, Delivery, Giving Birth, Delivery Times, Longer Labor, Giving-Birth, Labor and Delivery, Parents News

Convinced that you spent a lot more time in labor with your baby than your mom did with you? You may have. According to new research from the Na...

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How Music And Storytelling Reduced Infant Deaths By 54 Percent In One Indian Town

Gitika Ahuja | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: India, Shivgarh, Shivgarh Project, Giving Birth, Pregnancy, Global Motherhood, Babies, Maternal Health, Video, Impact News

How did these traditions develop, and how could this community's thinking be shifted? Women were in deep pain from this incredible level of loss, and they were ready to be heard.

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Can I Borrow a Hug?

Pat Gallagher | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Howie Mandel, Hugs, Doctor, Hypochrondriac, Giving Birth, Nat King Cole, Comedy News

I'm a hypochondriac. Is there a support group out there anywhere for people like me? Or am I in this alone, wallowing in my misery? I really, really l...

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One, Two, Three

Glennon Melton | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Loving Children, Giving Birth, Siblings, Having Multiples, Parents-Pregnancy, Unconditional Love, Parents-Babies, Parents-Moms, Parents News

The earth shakes when the doctor places your firstborn in your arms. Holding your second, you become human again. Then the third arrives. And as you hold her for the first time, you notice that your hands are steady.

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For Healthier Moms and Babies, X-Out Repeat C-Sections

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: C-Sections, Vaginal Birth After Delivery, Dr. Glenn Braunstein, Cedars Sinai, Vbac, Cesarean Section Births, Birth, Cesarean Section, Giving Birth, Global Motherhood, Los Angeles News

Preliminary figures from the Centers for Disease control include a promising bit of news for women's health: for the first time in a decade, the rate of cesarean section births dropped.

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Mother Goes Deaf After Giving Birth

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Hearing Loss, Giving Birth, Pregnancy, Deafness, Otosclerosis, Causes of Hearling Loss, Deaf, Going Deaf, Women and Childbirth, Childbirth, Healthy Living News

What was supposed to be a joyous day for Heather Simonsen turned terrifying when, according to a report from Utah's KSL, she lost her sense of hearing...

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Too Posh To Push? C-sections On Demand

AP | By MARIA CHENG | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Parents-New-Moms, Giving Birth, Cesarean Section, Parents-Pregnancy, Natural Births, Pregnancy, Cesarean Births, C-Sections on Rise, C-Section, Parents News

LONDON -- Pregnant women in Britain, where the government provides free health care, may soon be able to get a cesarean section on demand thanks to a ...

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Setting Up Realistic Expectations of Birth -- Changes We Can All Make

Brandy Ferner | Posted 12.24.2011

Our culture sends the message that birth is no big thang. It's pretty ordinary, happens everyday, is nothing more than a baby coming out of a hole.

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Undocumented Women Forced To Give Birth While Shackled And In Police Custody

HuffingtonPost.com | Cristina Costantini | Posted 12.21.2011

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"When I was in bed, I was begging the sheriff, 'Please let me free -- at least one hand,' and he said, no, he didn't want to," Juana Villegas said in ...

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Birth Rights: Helping Expectant Mothers Survive In Indonesia

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Birthing, Health Clinics, Yayasan Bumi Sehat, Mother Robin, Indonesia, Giving Birth, Reproductive Rights, Midwife, Robin Lim, Pregnancy, Healthy Mother Earth Foundation, Bumi Sehat, CNN Heroes, Infant Mortality, Women's Rights, Maternal Mortality, Video, Impact News

Robin Lim wanted to reinvent herself. After suffering the loss of both her sister and her best friend in the same year, she and her husband moved to...

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How to Give Birth Like a Celebrity

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Natalie Portman, Celebrity Pregnancies, Victoria Beckham, Jewel, Mariah Carey, Giving Birth, Angelina Jolie, Slidepollajax, Teen Pregnancy, Pregnancy, Kate Hudson, Rachel Zoe, Babies, Entertainment News

Baby bumps are the new must-have accessory, so try birthing like your favorite star!

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Do Orgasmic Births Really Happen?

Juliet Linley | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Birth, Orgasmic Birth, Child Labor, Parenting, Ecstatic Birth, Giving Birth, Wellness, Childbirth, Healthy Living News

The more disconnected we are from our bodies, our sexuality and our sensuality, the more perverse we might label the whole idea of pleasure in birth.

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Why Home Births Are Worth Considering

Melissa Cheyney | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Parenting, Homebirth, Midwives, Natural Childbirth, Giving Birth, Midwife, Hospital Birth, Out-of-Hospital Birth, Home Birth, Midwifery, Childbirth, Healthy Living News

If doctors and midwives could be willing to learn from and respect one another, women and babies in our country would benefit.

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Doctors Condemn Shackling Mothers in Labor and Delivery

Malika Saada Saar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prisons, American Medical Association, Correctional Facilities, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Womens-Prisons, Giving Birth, Mothers, Shackling, Impact News

This week, the American Medical Association called for an end to one of the most draconian practices in the U.S.: the shackling of incarcerated mothers during labor, delivery and post delivery.

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Judy Hsu, ABC 7 Anchor, Gives Birth On The Eisenhower Expressway

ABC 7 | Posted 05.25.2011

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ABC7 anchor Judy Hsu delivered her fourth baby - while riding in the front seat of a car on the Eisenhower Expressway -- early Tuesday morning. ...

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10 Things They Never Tell You About Motherhood

Times Online | Sarah Vine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Women's Health, Becoming a Mother, Parenting, New Moms, Giving Birth, Healthy Living News

Motherhood is one of the great obsessions of our age. Everyone seems to have an opinion, even those who will never experience it (men), and those for ...

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The Morality of Eight Babies or, Sometimes, Even One

Valerie Tarico | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Abortion, Morality, Bioethics, Ethics, Octuplets, Single Mothers, Mothering, Giving Birth, Single Motherhood, California Octuplets, Parenting, Octuplets Born in California, Childbirth, Parenthood, Healthy Living News

Abortion opponents have no trouble saying that killing blastocysts is wrong. They don't say blastocysts. They say people. And then they attribute souls and personhood to fertilized eggs.

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Why Are American Women Having More Children?

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Teen Pregnancy, Marriage, Women, Fertility, Single Mothers, Feminism, Family, Teenage Pregnancy, Teen Pregnancy Rate, Americans, Children, Kids, Health, Giving Birth, Birth Rates, Teen Sex, Healthy Living News

Even if the declining employment rates for women don't reflect general support for "opting out," the cultural elevation of women who choose to stay home with their kids is palpable.

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Docs to Women: Pay No Attention to Ricki Lake's Home Birth

Ricki Lake, Jennifer Block, and Abby Epstein | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Gynecology, Baby, Midwives, Giving Birth, Childbirth Pain, American Medical Association, Ob/Gyn, Home Birth, Babies, Childbirth, Healthy Living News

The physicians of America have issued their decree -- they don't want you having your babies at home with midwives -- we can't imagine why not. They have no evidence to back up their claims.

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Sex After The Baby

Elle.com | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Sex After Giving Birth, Giving Birth, Sex, Healthy Living News

When I got pregnant, there were many things I worried about: contributing to overpopulation, getting fat, losing my inner life, being a badly dressed ...

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Newborn Babies Switched At Birth

abcnews.com | Chris Strathmann, Rich McHugh, and Imaeyen Ibanga | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: New Mothers, Babies Switched at Birth, Gma, Newborns, Giving Birth, Newborns Switched, Healthy Living News

New mother Kassie Hopkins had an eerie feeling when she was handed her newborn son after his March 28 birth at Heartland Regional Medical Center in Ma...

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Womb For Rent: The Curious Lives Of Surrogates

Newsweek | Lorraine Ali and Raina Kelley | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Surrogate Mother, Surrogate Mothers, Surrogate Motherhood, Maternity Leave, In Vitro Fertilization, Sex, Giving Birth, In Vitro Treatments, Adoption Rights, Birth Mother, Fertility Treatments, Adoption, Healthy Living News

But what kind of woman would carry a child to term, only to hand him over moments after birth? Surrogates challenge our most basic ideas about motherh...

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