To Induce Or Not To Induce - Is That The Question?
Are there "good" reasons for inducing labor through medical intervention? It's a loaded question for which different providers may give you different answers.
Are there "good" reasons for inducing labor through medical intervention? It's a loaded question for which different providers may give you different answers.
Yahoo! News | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living
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...
Dr. Alex Benzer | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living
In their lucid and levelheaded way, Kristof and WuDunn build a powerful moral case for fostering economic progress in the developing world by unleashing the potential of women.
Amie Newman | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
Is the fact that women experience gender discrimination in health care even debatable? Many insurance companies even regard a C-section as a pre-existing condition. This must stop.
Pauline Millard | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
During visits to Madison Square Park, I started to grasp the complicated terrain of Manhattan Motherhood, and how I wished someone had written a guide about what to expect when breeding in New York City.
Human Rights Watch | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
Despite National Commitment, Many Unable to Access Services By Aruna Kashyap, South Asia Researcher in the Women's Rights Division (Lucknow, India)...
Queen Rania of Jordan | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
Each year, more than a half million women lose their lives from complications arising before, during, or after childbirth. In the stories that follow, we would like to share our personal perspectives.
Amie Newman | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living
The Today Show presents homebirth as an option to be feared, but that's only because the unknown is often a scary venture. If you listen to women's experiences, It doesn't have to be that way.
Joyce McFadden | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
Women shouldn't impose strictures on other women's individuality and choice when we wouldn't want that from men.
Shaana Keller | Posted 08.02.2009 | Living
In the United States today, more than 95% of our pregnant moms deliver in a hospital setting. Yet, for normal pregnancies, science has proven that it is safer to use a midwifery model of care.
nytimes.com | Malia Wollan | Posted 07.12.2009 | Living
By her eighth month of pregnancy, Rebecca Sloan, a 35-year-old biologist living in Mountain View, Calif., had read the what-to-expect books, taken the...
Tamar Abrams | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
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.
Amie Newman | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living
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?
Theresa Shaver | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living
Yeruknesh, Chidimma and Siti died for lack of basic health care taken for granted by all but the world's poorest and most vulnerable people.
Ray Chambers | Posted 06.09.2009 | Living
Amidst the joy that we will share with our loved ones on Mother's Day sits the reality that too many women and children in certain parts of our planet face the cruel, unrelenting challenges posed by malaria.
Liya Kebede | Posted 06.07.2009 | Living
There is a saying in Africa that to find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave. It must sound strange to Americans. But in the developing world, more women die from pregnancy and childbirth than any other cause.
Sarah Brown | Posted 05.22.2009 | World
We will make progress on HIV/AIDS, education, nutrition, health care, on immunization, even, I believe, on the environment, if we reduce the number of mothers dying needlessly in childbirth.
Donna E. Shalala | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics
Every minute somewhere in the world, a woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth. Mother's Day Every Day is a groundbreaking new campaign to save their lives and the lives of their newborn children.
Valerie Tarico | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living
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.
Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 02.20.2009 | Living
If you've knocked your partner up, it seems to follow that you might be curious about her 'nether' regions during and after the birth of your child.
Joan Blades | Posted 02.06.2009 | Living
When you consider that the birth of a child is a leading cause of a "poverty spell" in America, this solution is one simple answer and it turns out it is good for business.
New York Times | Lisa Belkin | Posted 01.11.2009 | Style
First thing next month (Friday January 2) will be the primetime debut of a film that has been making the "under the radar" rounds of women and film fe...
NYTimes.com | Julie Scelfo | Posted 12.15.2008 | Style
Recently, though, midwives and childbirth educators say, a growing number of women have been opting instead for the more intimate and familiar surroun...
abcnews.com | Susan Donaldson James | Posted 08.05.2008 | Living
Pregnant with her first child, Julie Speier prepared to deliver with the help of a midwife at a New York City birthing center. But in June -- three we...
Ricki Lake, Jennifer Block, and Abby Epstein | Posted 06.26.2008 | Living
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.
Amie Newman | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living