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To Induce Or Not To Induce - Is That The Question?

Amie Newman | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: RH Reality Check, Pregnancy, Women, Midwifery, Natural Childbirth, Reproductive Rights, Childbirth, Living News
Amie Newman

Are there "good" reasons for inducing labor through medical intervention? It's a loaded question for which different providers may give you different answers.

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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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'Half The Sky' With Nicholas Kristof: A Morally Persuasive Call to Action

Dr. Alex Benzer | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Microlending, Economic Development, Sex Trafficking, Maternal Health, Somaly Mam, Happiness, Sheryl WuDunn, Microsavings, Education, Half the Sky, Oppression of Women, Grameen Bank, Slavery, Nicholas Kristof, Meaningful Work, Childbirth, Alex Benzer, Women's Rights, Living News
Dr. Alex Benzer

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.

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I Am Not a Pre-Existing Condition

Amie Newman | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: C-Sections, Women's Rights, Senate, Reproductive Rights, RH Reality Check, Health Care Reform, Pregnancy, Domestic Violence, Politics of Birth, Childbirth, Inside DC, Politics News
Amie Newman

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.

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Navigating Competitive Motherhood Is A Job Unto Itself

Pauline Millard | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Manhattan, Relationships, Working Mothers, Kids, Pauline Millard, Motherhood, Babies, Lactation, Stay at Home Mothers, New York City, Childbirth, Living News
Pauline Millard

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.

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India: Too Many Women Dying in Childbirth (VIDEO)

Human Rights Watch | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Women's Health, Women's Rights, Childbirth, India, Maternal Mortality, Women, Health, World News
Human Rights Watch

Despite National Commitment, Many Unable to Access Services By Aruna Kashyap, South Asia Researcher in the Women's Rights Division (Lucknow, India)...

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Maternal Mortality

Queen Rania of Jordan | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Queen Rania, Maternal Health, Wendi Murdoch, Indra Nooyi, Maternal Mortality, Childbirth, Politics News
Queen Rania of Jordan

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.

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What's So Scary About Home Birth?

Amie Newman | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Rights, Out-of-Hospital-Birth, Natural Childbirth, Reproductive Rights, RH Reality Check, Women's Health, Reproductive Health, Motherhood, Home Birth, Midwifery, Childbirth, Cpms, Cnms, Living News
Amie Newman

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.

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Bad Mommy: The Sexism Embedded in Women's Views on Breastfeeding and Childbirth

Joyce McFadden | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: New Mothers, Nursing, Newborns, Breastfeeding, Mothering, Sexism, Childbirth, Caesarean, Living News
Joyce McFadden

Women shouldn't impose strictures on other women's individuality and choice when we wouldn't want that from men.

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How To Save Our Nation's Budget and Start Nurturing American Families

Shaana Keller | Posted 08.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Children, Health, Midwife, Hospitals, Childbirth-Death, Childrens Health, Babies, Maternal Health, Health Care, Maternal Mortality, Childbirth, Living News
Shaana Keller

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.

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Women Document Childbirth, Share On YouTube

nytimes.com | Malia Wollan | Posted 07.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Health, Women, Youtube, Babies, Pregancy, Health, Midwife, Childbirth, Living News

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...

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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
Tamar Abrams

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
Amie Newman

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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Of Pandemics and a Global Pledge to Moms and Newborns

Theresa Shaver | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Mothers Day Every Day, Care, Pandemic, Mothers Day Every Day Campaign, Countdown-to-Mothers-Day, White-Ribbon-Alliance, Maternal Health, Maternal Mortality, Childbirth, Living News
Theresa Shaver

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.

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Remembering the Burden of Malaria on Mother's Day

Ray Chambers | Posted 06.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Malaria, Mother's Day, Sarah Brown, Mothers, Childbirth, Africa, Care, Mothers Day Every Day Campaign, Countdown-to-Mothers-Day, White-Ribbon-Alliance, Living News
Ray Chambers

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.

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Let's Make Mother's Day a Global Reality

Liya Kebede | Posted 06.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Ethiopia, Dying From Childbirth, Africa, Childbirth, Care, Mother's Day, Countdown-to-Mothers-Day, White-Ribbon-Alliance, Maternal Health, Living News
Liya Kebede

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.

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Build for Mothers and You Build for Everyone

Sarah Brown | Posted 05.22.2009 | World

Read More: Women, Women's Healthcare, Africa, First Ladies Summit, Women's Health, Women Mortality Rate, Disease, Maternal Mortality Rate, Childbirth Death, Sarah Brown, Maternal Mortality, Childbirth, Usdfa, New York-New York, Los Angeles-California, Tanzania, Italy, United Kingdom, World News
Sarah Brown

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.

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U.S. Must Take Leadership to Make Mother's Day Every Day

Donna E. Shalala | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mothers Day Every Day, Pregnancy, Chidren, Women, Mother's Day, Childbirth, Politics News
Donna E. Shalala

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.

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The Morality of Eight Babies or, Sometimes, Even One

Valerie Tarico | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living

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

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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Taboo? What Taboo!?

Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 02.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Sexuality, Women's Self Esteem, Relationships, Sex, Healthy Sexuality, Pregnancy, Love, Childbirth, Living News
Danielle Cavallucci

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.

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Peaceful Revolution: I Love Seeing Babies at Work!

Joan Blades | Posted 02.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Babies at Work, Babies-at-Work Programs, Poverty, Work, Moms Rising, Parenting at Work, Parenting in the Workplace Institute, Parenting, A Peaceful Revolution, Parents, Childbirth, Birth of a Child, Living News
Joan Blades

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.

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Some Women Report Having An Orgasm During Childbirth

New York Times | Lisa Belkin | Posted 01.11.2009 | Style

Read More: Orgasmic Birth, Orgasms Childbirth, Orgasms, Childbirth, Style News

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...

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More Babies Being Born At Home

NYTimes.com | Julie Scelfo | Posted 12.15.2008 | Style

Read More: Natural Childbirth, Childbirth, Style News

Recently, though, midwives and childbirth educators say, a growing number of women have been opting instead for the more intimate and familiar surroun...

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Is Natural Childbirth Passe?

abcnews.com | Susan Donaldson James | Posted 08.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Birthing Techniques, Natural Childbirth, Childbirth, Living News

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...

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

Ricki Lake, Jennifer Block, and Abby Epstein | Posted 06.26.2008 | Living

Read More: Gynecology, Baby, Midwives, Giving Birth, Childbirth Pain, American Medical Association, Ob/Gyn, Home Birth, Babies, Childbirth, Living News
Ricki Lake, Jennifer Block, and Abby Epstein

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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