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View Post: reproductive rights, surrogate motherhood, surrogacy, health ...
24 Sep 2009 by Lisa Bennett, NOW Communications Director  
Various complications can develop during pregnancy and childbirth, making this a potentially risky proposition for the life, health and future childbearing ability of any woman who serves as a surrogate. Not to mention the artificial ...
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View Post: Win A Cybex Callisto! : Growing Your Baby – Parenthood from ...
9 hours ago by Lisa  
Growing Your Baby – Parenthood from Pregnancy to Pre-school. Parenthood from Pregnancy to Pre-school. Home; About · Disclosure · Expectant Moms · Featured Products and Reviews · Micropreemies · Parenting · RSS ...
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View Post: Assisted Reproduction Procedures Increasing; Multiple Births Declining
2 Jun 2009
Pregnancy & Childbirth. Assisted Reproduction Procedures Increasing; Multiple Births Declining. By Heather Hajek Published: Saturday, 30 May 2009. baby newborn with mom.jpg. Printer Friendly · Share Article. Text Size smaller bigger ...
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View Post: Understand the Role of Sperm: How Sperm Contributes to the ...
7 Oct 2009
The role that sperm plays in reproduction is very important, especially when a couple is trying to conceive. When an egg and sperm fuse, a new life begins to form. ... Since sperm can live inside the body for up to 5 days, couples wishing to prevent pregnancy should avoid having unprotected sex during the week prior to ovulation. This will allow sperm to be expelled before the egg is released. However, birth control should always be used if pregnancy is not desired. ...
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View Post: Choosing a Pregnancy Caregiver
30 Dec 2008
As you try to choose a caregiver during pregnancy, it is vital that you select someone whose philosophy of childbirth matches your own. If you desire a relaxed natural childbirth with as little intervention as possible, you must ensure ...
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View Post: Feminist Childbirth Studies: a sex ed wishlist, part 2: the basics
24 Nov 2009 by Molly  
Feminist Childbirth Studies. reflections of a literary scholar, mother, and aspiring birthworker on pregnancy/birth/parenting, our culture's (often-disturbing) stories and assumptions about reproduction and women's bodies, ...
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View Post: Male Pregnancy: True or False? Best Hoaxes and Pranks
22 Nov 2009 by Michael Pekker (AKA Nesher)  
Couvade in its narrowest sense refers to the practice in which a father simulates labor and childbirth shortly after the birth of his child to demonstrate his role in reproduction or to ease the mother's pain by sharing in it. ...
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View Post: Heidi Klum Introduces Us To Lou Sulola Samuel! : Growing Your Baby ...
27 Nov 2009 by Lisa  
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View Post: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
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View Blog: This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the .... The study aims to identify culturally important traditions surrounding pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum recovery that may aid in the development and implementation of culturally appropriate healthcare by the Lao government or

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View Post: Science-Based Medicine » “The mother is the factory”
12 Nov 2009 by Amy Tuteur, MD  
There is a tremendous amount of wastage in human reproduction also. The miscarriage rate for established pregnancies is 20%. That means that 1 in 5 pregnancies will not survive to result in a live birth. Pregnancy and childbirth also ...
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