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Childbirth

Remembering the Burden of Malaria on Mother's Day

Ray Chambers | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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.

Let's Make Mother's Day a Global Reality

Liya Kebede | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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.

Build for Mothers and You Build for Everyone

Sarah Brown | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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.

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

Donna E. Shalala | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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.

The Morality of Eight Babies or, Sometimes, Even One

Valerie Tarico | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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.

Taboo? What Taboo!?

Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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.

Peaceful Revolution: I Love Seeing Babies at Work!

Joan Blades | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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.

Some Women Report Having An Orgasm During Childbirth

New York Times | Lisa Belkin | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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...

More Babies Being Born At Home

NYTimes.com | Julie Scelfo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style

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

Is Natural Childbirth Passe?

abcnews.com | Susan Donaldson James | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy 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...

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

Ricki Lake, Jennifer Block, and Abby Epstein | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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.

Placenta Is Secret Ingredient In Japanese Health Drink

Slashfood | Julie Tilsner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

A Japanese company is marketing a line of health drinks and beauty products with a special secret ingredient: Placenta. Nobody embraces the mystery a...

Helen Mirren On Childbirth: "It Disgusts Me"

The Daily Mail (UK) | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment

She said: "I went to a single sex convent school, and even in Biology classes we weren't taught about sexual reproduction. I was about 13, 14, just at...