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...first reports to question the prevailing medical wisdom, four prominent doctors at Harvard Medical School (HMS) concluded that decreasing the percentage of caesarean deliveries may lead to greater risk for mothers and babies and higher costs for hospitals and patients...
After a year of gathering statistics and data from around the country, the four concluded that two of the major strategies used to increase normal deliveries are not always safe alternatives to the caesarean method. Their findings were published last week as part of an opinion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine...
...early stages of labor, which was the focus of last week's report. Many women find that it helps them to relax, to work through their contractions before the often tough job ahead. In addition, midwives have long believed that walking reduces the need for pain killers and Caesarean sections because it allows the birthing process to work with gravity...
...between career and home, the meaning of loyalty and friendship. The series also reflected most of the decade's important social trends. The Ricardos made their contribution to the baby boom in January 1953--TV's Little Ricky was born on the same day that Ball gave birth, by caesarean, to her second child, Desi Jr. (A daughter, Lucie, had been born in 1951.) They traveled to California just as the nation was turning west, in a hilarious series of shows that epitomized our conception of--and obsession with--Hollywood glamour. And when the nation began moving to the suburbs...
...rewarded. Not only did the septuplets emerge from Bobbi's womb intact last Wednesday, but they were healthier than anyone had dared hope. "I didn't think we'd have this kind of outcome," admitted an exhausted, exultant Mahone the day after she and Drake delivered the babies by caesarean section. "It just strikes me as a miracle." Kenny McCaughey's first public utterance, issued at a press conference at Missionary Baptist Church in Carlisle after a visit with his four new sons and three new daughters, was a simple but eloquent...