As the rate of home births continues to rise in the U.S., the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released a new policy statement published in the journal Pediatrics, titled "Planned Home Birth", which includes a number of new recommendations for the care of children born at home. In...
Unplanned pregnancy constitute 37% of births, and even more of the total number of pregnancies (43% of unplanned pregnancies end in abortion), according to a new report on pregnancy and birth control choices from The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. The data, taken from 2006 to 2010...
Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released data from the Natality Data File, National Vital Statistics System showing teen childbearing hitting the lowest levels on record. Obviously, the public information campaign to use condoms is working. At the same time, increasing numbers...
Robert Burden, the time lapse painter who's graced Gizmodo before with his He-Man Battle Cat and Voltron paintings, is back. The latest is "Birth of a Jedi." And no, that's not a third leg coming out of the Tauntaun. More »
Approximately 0.5% of US births occur at home, of which about three-quarters are low low-risk, single-baby births planned in advance as home deliveries. A study published in the peer-reviewed American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology (AJOG), researchers from Maine Medical Center, Portland...
Louisiana lawmakers and women's health advocacy groups are working to initiate and expand state programs aimed at reducing teen births, births to unmarried women and premature births, the Shreveport Times reports. Compared with the nation as a whole, Louisiana has higher rates of births in each...
Louisiana lawmakers and women's health advocacy groups are working to initiate and expand state programs aimed at reducing teen births, births to unmarried women and premature births, the Shreveport Times reports. Compared with the nation as a whole, Louisiana has higher rates of births in each...
California governors of the past two decades "deserve praise for funding a wide array of programs aimed at combating teen births," a Sacramento Bee editorial states. The editorial notes that California is "bucking a national trend" of rising teen births. The number of births to California teens...
California governors of the past two decades "deserve praise for funding a wide array of programs aimed at combating teen births," a Sacramento Bee editorial states. The editorial notes that California is "bucking a national trend" of rising teen births. The number of births to California teens...
This question is for all women who have had vaginal deliveries, not cesarean or induced deliveries.
Did you go into labor around the same time as your due date?
What were the dates?
How long were you in labor for?
How did you know you were going into labor?
When it came time to push, how...
AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said today that a new Australian study confirms the high safety risks and higher death rates associated with home births in Australia compared to hospital births. The study of home and hospital births in South Australia between 1991 and 2006, published in the...
A retrospective population-based study has added to previously published evidence showing that planned home birth in Australia is associated with a higher risk of intrapartum related perinatal mortality (death during labour or after birth owing to problems occurring during labour). Conducted by...
A retrospective population-based study has added to previously published evidence showing that planned home birth in Australia is associated with a higher risk of intrapartum related perinatal mortality (death during labour or after birth owing to problems occurring during labour). Conducted by...
A retrospective population-based study has added to previously published evidence showing that planned home birth in Australia is associated with a higher risk of intrapartum related perinatal mortality (death during labour or after birth owing to problems occurring during labour). Conducted by...
The widespread use of so-called fertility drugs, not just high-tech laboratory procedures, likely plays a larger role than previously realized in the growing problem of premature births in the United States, because these drugs cause a high percentage of multiple births, the March of Dimes said...
Just wanted to know what your opinions are about this article. Personally, I'm pissed and I think our citizenship laws should be made tougher otherwise this nation well be full of illegal parents and there "US citizen" children!
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