Word: childbirth
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What intelligent designer came up with cancer and toothaches? Who "designed" your appendix and tonsils, organs that do nothing but get infected and cause you grief? How intelligent is the famously fragile human spine, or the narrow pelvis that makes childbirth harder for humans than for almost any other species? There are evolutionary explanations for all of these, but I hardly think there was much intelligence in designing halitosis, acne and flatulence...
...latest accessory, this was not Western imperialism run amok, she would honor his heritage. Yes, it is true that as Madonna's child he will never have a normal life, but then his life was all too perfectly normal where he came from; a mother dead soon after childbirth, two brothers lost to malaria, a majority of the population living on less than a dollar a day. Are we really so sure we know where compassion ends and colonialism begins? One retired nurse in Northern Malawi was blunt: "We can't afford to look after the thousands of babies that...
Gaining even a modest amount of weight between pregnancies could lead to serious complications in childbirth, according to a new report from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). The study, published in the Sept. 30 issue of the British medical journal The Lancet, examined a population of more than 150,000 Swedish women who had their first and second births between 1992 and 2001. Researchers found that women who gained weight between pregnancies were at a higher risk of adverse outcomes such as gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension, and stillbirth. “It turns out that women...
...amazing how we went from barely being awake, to running into a frantic situation,” said Reed, who was born in the back of an ambulance. “I just hope I don’t ever have to see another childbirth unless it’s my kid.” —Staff writer Ying Wang can be reached at yingwang@fas.harvard.edu...
...Delivery rooms tend to be noisy and joyful places. Mothers in the midst of childbirth have been known to scream, swear, and growl. Conversely, obstetricians and midwives maintain a calm and instructive tone. Nurses offer encouragement. IVs drip, monitors beep. The obstetrician, having accompanied the mother-to-be through her uncomfortable pregnancy and painful childbirth, finally delivers the prized baby with the customary, "It's a boy" or "It's a girl." The little one gives a lusty cry then the nurse or pediatrician quickly assesses the newborn, performs any necessary resuscitation, and then, when all is stable, places...