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Caesarean Section

15-Year-Old Did WHAT In The Operating Room?

The Huffington Post | Ryan Grenoble | Posted 10.04.2012 | Parents
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Officials at Malmö University Hospital in Sweden have apologized to a new mother after learning that a 15-year-old girl helped deliver her baby via c...

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The Birth Story I Never Wanted To Tell

Christina Loccke | Posted 11.13.2012 | Parents
Read More: Caesarean Section, Natural Birth, Women Childbirth, C-Section, Childbirth, Birth Stories, Giving Birth, Natural Childbirth, Parents-Pregnancy, Global Motherhood, Epidural, Parents-Moms, Parents News
Christina Loccke

My husband jokingly applies the baseball term "hitting for the cycle" to the way I delivered our three children: from scheduled surgery to drugged and finally undrugged natural. It wasn't some sport, though I was fanatical.

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What the Affordable Care Act Means for Women

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 07.30.2012 | Women
Read More: Maternity Coverage, Healthy Living Health News, National Women's Health Week, Breast Cancer, National Women's Health Network, Katherine B. Waddell, Women's Strike Force, Caesarean Section, Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, Medicare, Pre-Existing Conditions, Women and Health Insurance, Gender Rating, Domestic Violence, Center for American Progress, Women News
Marcia G. Yerman

Fifty percent of women put off getting medical care because of economic factors. One third of women pay their medical bills by trimming back on basic needs such as food. Understanding what the ACA offers gives women a window into what will transpire if it is defeated.

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Why Komen Is Small Potatoes

Dr. Peggy Drexler | Posted 04.07.2012 | Women
Read More: Caesarean Section, Pregnancy, Susan G. Komen, Medicaid, Planned Parenthood, prenatalLow Income Women, Karen Handel, Supreme CourtConstitutional Challenge to the ACA, Health Plans, Breast Cancer, Mandatory Insurance, Mammograms, Affordable Care Act, Mandatory Health Insurance, Newborn Care, Maternity Care, Domestic Violence, Women News
Dr. Peggy Drexler

The Planned Parenthood flap will come and go in a couple of news cycles -- instructive, but ultimately harmless. But if the gains for women in the Affordable Care Act go down with the ship, it may take decades to get them back, if we can get them back at all.

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New Guidelines Aim To Reduce Repeated C-sections

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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WASHINGTON — Most women who've had a C-section, and many who've had two, should be allowed to try labor with their next baby, say new guidelines...

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Is Having a Baby Bad for Your Health?

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Maternal Death, The Safe Motherhood Quilt Project, Orthopnea, Pregnancy, Jennifer Dohrn, Health Insurance, Maternal Health, Lifetime Moms, Amnesty International, Dr. Charles S. Mahan, Women's Health, Pulmonary Embolism, Caesarean Section, World Health Organization, Women of Color Health Care, Preeclampsia, Prenatal Care, Health Care, Childbirth, Maternal Mortality, Heatlh Care Reform, Healthy Living News
Marcia G. Yerman

Most American women might presume that the dangers of maternal mortality are a concern and problem only in developing nations. They're wrong.

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