For women giving birth, these physical manifestations of stress and anxiety will divert blood from the uterus, cause the body to tense, and increase the breathing rate. In short, this reaction is a natural birth nightmare. When this reaction occurs, women will most definitely experience pain. C...
During the six days a woman is fertile, her body and subconscious mind want to get pregnant. This occurs even if she has had her tubes tied or has decided she never wants kids. The only times it doesn’t occur is if she’s on hormonal birth control, has had a hysterectomy, or is ...
It is unclear whether polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is an independent risk factor for adverse birth outcomes in the offspring of affected women. Here, we investigate the association of PCOS with birth outcomes in the offspring of women with PCOS overall and by potential confounders. This system...
In the Netherlands, home birth is part of the mainstream health care system. In the absence of stigma, structures for collaboration between midwives and physicians facilitate relatively smooth interactions.;An international discourse of natural birth informs a script for how to accomplish home birth ...
“Women here have had access to birth control since 1962 and have had access to abortion since 1965 — eight years before Roe v. Wade gave American women the same right.” Now that’s reform minded. But we will be watching closely to see what transpires in the aftermath of Tunisia’s ...
(Thanks to NYC Media Lab (a higher education-city government-industry partnership) for giving me a press pass to their 2015 annual summit.) Patchworked Venus Joelle Fleurantin presented Patchworked Venus,“A wearable exploring how computing has given birth to a new form of sexual intimacy”. ...
the emotional and psychological bond between the mother and her unborn child (Brandon et al.2009; Rossen et al.2017). The mother-infant bonding quality developed in pregnancy is important because it is positively associated with the mother-infant bonding quality after birth (Tichelman et al.2019...
Iodine (most of us get enough in our diet, but women between the ages of 20 and 39 may be low, and this nutrient is critical for a healthy pregnancy) Women taking birth control pills should also be sure they’re getting enough B vitamins, as the pill can deplete these nutrients. Activ...
“Come down, placenta, come down! I am Horus who conjures in order that she who is giving birth becomes better than she was, as if she was already delivered. Look, Hathor will lay her hand on her with an amulet of health! I am Horus who saves her!” ~ A Spell for a Healthy De...
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