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Women face a significantly lower risk of difficulties in connection with carrying a healthy child to term if they wait nine months after childbirth before becoming pregnant again, according to a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. By taking this period to regain their strength, the study said, key nutritional reserves can be rebuilt. The recommendation is emphasized for black women, among whom the risk of giving birth to a premature or under-weight baby triples if the pregnancies are less than nine months apart. Researchers tracked 1,922 mothers in an army hospital, where...
...kinda like the childbirth analogy--you know, some deliveries are more painful than others. Nurturing a young team to term is a tough task for even the most discerning mother, and Pam Tomassoni's inevitable protests at the choice of metaphor notwithstanding. Mother Ronn can feel his baby kicking. He knows such labor pains are natural for a group like this...
...process of demonization reached meltdown five years ago when Charles Stuart, a white furrier from a Boston suburb, claimed that a black stranger had leaped into his car as he and his wife were returning from a natural- childbirth class, forced them to drive to a remote location, then robbed and shot them both, killing her. It was Stuart, of course, who had murdered his pregnant wife, then shot himself to make his story unassailable. Stuart would eventually be unmasked and take his own life, but not before Boston police had bought the lies, rounding up scores of black...
...from a maternal way of thinking, our current numbers are indeed a stunning achievement. Over the millenniums, millions of women gave their lives to "overpopulate" the earth. They died in childbirth, as did three of my own great-grandmothers, each by the age of 31. Or they squandered their health on pregnancy after pregnancy, with as many as half ending in miscarriage or dead babies. Even within this century, medical wisdom held that "maternity is another word for eternity" and that women really were the weaker, sicker...
Toth's situation helps explain another dismaying symptom: while disease and depression are shortening life expectancy at one end, plummeting birthrates are eating away at the other. For reasons both social and psychological, East Europeans are delaying childbirth or even avoiding it altogether. Birthrates in Russia are down 46%, from...