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The Health Care-Abortion Issue: An Open Letter To The Catholic Bishops

Valerie Tarico | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Stupak, Reproductive Rights, Birth, Pro Choice, Catholicism, Children, Pregnancy, Catholic Bishops, Pro-Life, Babies, Catholics, Religion, Morality, Health Care, Pro-Choice, Spirituality, Politics News

Dear Bishops: In our struggle to get health care for all, you saw an opportunity to make sure that American women can't afford abortions, a way to be the deciders for all of us.

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Antibiotics Linked To Birth Defects, Study Says

AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Birth, Antiobiotics, Health, Infection, Birth Defects, New Study, Parenting, Bacteria, Babies, Medicine, Wellness, Bacterial Infection, Living News

CHICAGO — Researchers studying antibiotics in pregnancy have found a surprising link between common drugs used to treat urinary infections and b...

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"My Vagina Fell Out": Woman Shares Health Horror

Sphere | Buck Wolf | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Birth, Vulva, Prolapse, Uterus, Pregnancy, Plastic Surgery, Hematoma, Cystocele, Child Birth, Health, Urethra, Reproductive Health, Women's Health, Rectum, Vaginal Prolapse, Stds, Std, Vagina, Placenta, Rectocele, Bladder, Labia Reduction, Living News

Allison Henry isn't the first to suffer from a horrifying medical condition that few women talk about. But her case was particularly bad, and she's ju...

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Health Tip: Recovering After Childbirth

Yahoo! News | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Birth, Post-Pregnancy, Pregnancy, Motherhood, Health Tips, Parenting, Babies, Newborn, Health, Pregnant, Childbirth, Living News

New mothers may be so consumed with their newborns that they forget the ordeal of childbirth. How quickly their bodies actually recover is another sto...

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Are Womb Transplants The Next Frontier In Fertility?

Politics Daily | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home

Read More: Birth, Infertility, Infertility Treatments, Health Insurance, Motherhood, Fatherhood, New Treatments for Infertility, Future, Babies, Fertility Treatments, New Fertility Treatments, Womb Transplants, Results, Parenthood, Health, Home News

Doctors in Britain have announced that they have figured out a process to transplant wombs that could result in healthy pregnancies -- and they estima...

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How First Candle is Fighting SIDS

Emma Byrne Rooney | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Birth, First Candle, National SIDS Alliance, Charity, Children, Motherhood, Sids, Babies, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, The Giving Life, Living News

Every year, First Candle celebrates another year of helping babies survive and thrive with a beautiful evening of dinner and dancing under the stars.

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The Juban Princeling Turns One Year Old

Meredith Lopez | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Birth, C-Sections, Milestones, 2008 Births, Brooklyn, Parenting, Babies, Toddlers Meredith Lopez, The Balanced Life, Bailout Bandits, Living News

This Thursday, October 8, my son the Juban Princeling will turn one year old. I know it's a cliche to say so, but I can't believe he's a year old already!

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Pray for Glenn Beck

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

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Beck's predictions that health care reform would lead to government bureaucrats euthanizing people like his daughter are dead wrong, but we at Sojournors agree with Glenn on this point: God is the giver of life.

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Why Liberals May Be More to Blame for the Birthers

Dan Pashman | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Birth, Birthers, Obama Birth Certificate, Orly Taitz, Obama Birthers, Birther-Movement, President Barack Obama, Obama, Barack Obama, Politics News

The level of press attention devoted to the birthers -- far more than left wing crackpots ever get -- seems to be a sign of liberal media bias.

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The Adventures of a Preterm Daddy: Part II

Dr. Jeffrey McCombs | Posted 08.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Preterm Births, Dr. McCombs, Pregnancy, Cedars-Sinai, Rhogam Vaccine, Birth, Preterm-Babies, Babies, Living News

Somewhere in the back of my mind, I remember an old marine saying about rats leaving a sinking ship, so as the last weekend of April approached, we had the setting for a perfect storm.

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Dying to Give Life

Tamar Abrams | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

Read More: Birth, Macarthur Foundation, Family Planning, Pathfinder International, Life Wrap, Pregnancy, India, Nigeria, Maternal Mortality, Childbirth, World News

Without adequate family planning programs in the developing world -- and here in the U.S. -- women will always be at unacceptably high risk of death, illness and disability.

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Breast, Bottle and The Beauty of Motherhood

Amie Newman | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Birth, Breastfeeding, Reproductive Rights, RH Reality Check, Pregnancy, Maternity Care, Maternal Health, Benefits of Breastfeeding, Childbirth, Living News

The real focus should be on creating the societal support necessary for mothers to experience new motherhood as optimally as possible. Do we offer adequate paid family leave for new moms?

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Musings on Swine Flu: Birth and Death, the Circle of Life

Lea Lane | Posted 05.30.2009 | Living

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I thought about the parallels of the newborn and almost gone: no hair, diapers, no teeth, inability to walk, weak immunity, dependency. And the miracle and the natural progression of the circle of life.

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Concerned About Coerced Abortions? Try Saying No to Cesarean Surgery

Lynn M. Paltrow | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medical Ethics, Birth, Abortion, Women, Coercion, Pregnant, Cesarean Section, Woman, Pregnancy, Legislation, Reproductive, Cesarean-Section, Health, Cesarean, Hospitals, Missouri, Episiotomy, Medical Costs, Medicine, Vbac, Politics News

The rise in cesarean surgery rates has not been accompanied by overall improvements in maternal or child health and creates risks to pregnant women and babies that do not exist with vaginal births.

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Labor of Love: A Midwife's Memoir

Joe Antol | Posted 02.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Cara Muhlhahn, Birth, Labor of Love, Pregnancy, Child Birth, Midwife Memoir, Midwives, Books, Oregon, Living News

For Muhlhahn, birth is a transformative and poetic experience for the mother. But perhaps she forgets that it is first and foremost a transformative experience for the child.

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Brand New (Year)

Molly Magid Hoagland | Posted 01.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Birth, Family Relationships, Siblings, Pregnancy, New Year, New Beginnings, New Baby, Brothers, New Year's Commentary, Living News

My younger boy just turned four, but the other day he fell asleep against my chest like an infant. He's now the age his older brother was when he was born.

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State Trooper Gives Traffic Ticket To Woman In Labor

The Boston Globe | Stephanie Ebbert | Posted 01.04.2009 | Home

Read More: Birth, State Trooper Ticket, Child Birth, Pregnant Woman Ticketed, State Trooper, Boston, Home News

All too often, the congested roads of Greater Boston conspire with the vagaries of childbirth to leave a mother-to-be in a car on the roadside at one ...

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