Word: childbirth
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...idea is spreading. Last year more than 100 former circumcisers from across Africa grouped together and agreed to put down their knives and razor blades for good. Now they instruct rural women on health and childbirth. "We teach [the circumcisers] a trade that responds to their economic needs," Gambian Fatou Waggeh, an anti-FGM campaigner who was circumcised at 15 and is now 32, told a Rome conference in March. "[We] recognize that we must provide them with alternatives for training and [keeping their] power within the community...
...since depression-era borscht-belt theater. The characters remain one-dimensional types (the boozy black-sheep brother; the frigid trophy wife; the stuffy matriarch) who come and go in one unbelievable, manipulative scene after another. The book gallops along furiously. Within one page Conrad's first wife dies in childbirth, the grandparents are denied the right to take care of the baby, and then are suddenly put in charge anyway because Conrad can't be bothered with it. (As if he wouldn't know about nannies.) Later, in a typically absurd scene, Conrad reclaims custody by personally kidnapping the child...
STINGRAYS A blue flag on Florida beaches indicates stingrays may be submerged in the sand. A recently stung woman reported the pain was akin to childbirth. To keep them away: shuffle your feet...
...Tina Tessina: What postpartum depression means is that after the pain and tremendous exhaustion brought on by childbirth, and then through the fatigue of round-the-clock feedings, some women start to feel incredibly isolated, like no one understands what you're dealing with and that can't talk to anyone. Women sometimes also experience serious hormonal shifts, which can lead to radical mood swings. There is often a very serious disconnect between what women feel after they've given birth (depressed, tired, in pain) and what women are told they're supposed to feel as new mothers (elated, joyful...
...photos from Dijkstra’s “New Mothers” series, which documents both the intense joy and sheer exhaustion of women who have recently given birth. The series is painstakingly honest, showing the fresh beauty of newborn babies alongside the harsh physical realities of childbirth for their mothers...