Word: postpartum
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...here is the truly ghastly reality of maternal mortality: in 20 years--two decades that have seen spectacular medical breakthroughs--the ratio of maternal deaths to babies born has barely budged in poor countries. To be sure, maternal health has seen advances, with new drugs to treat deadly postpartum bleeding and pregnancy-related anemia. But in many places, such gains are dwarfed by a multitude of problems: scattershot care, low pay for health workers and a scarcity of midwives and doctors. In Mozambique, where women have a 1 in 45 lifetime chance of dying in childbirth, there are just...
...curriculum, which covers serious subjects like shaken-baby syndrome and postpartum depression, for the most part steers clear of touchy-feely emoting. But to kick off the class, Dubin asks the men to describe the father figure they grew up with and the kind of dad they'd like to be. Some responses are blunt: "My dad was an a__hole, and I'd rather not be one." But nearly all include a desire to attain the virtues of a decidedly modern man: patience, emotional availability, anger-management and communication skills, and open-mindedness...
...requesting a restraining order against 57 magazines, websites, and television shows. "The permanent siege that Telma Ortiz and her partner suffer 24 hours a day is unbearable," said her lawyer Fernando Garrido earlier this week. "We can't go along with the fact that Telma has to live her postpartum in hiding, in a hell like she is living now, just to avoid being photographed...
...were changing too. In his book Fatherhood in America, published this month, Robert L. Griswold has traced the history of a fast-changing role that today not only allows men in the birthing room (90% of fathers are in attendance at their child's birth) but also offers them postpartum courses in which new fathers learn how to change, feed, hold and generally take care of their infant. Some fathers may even get in on the pregnancy part by wearing the "empathy belly," a bulge the size and weight of a third-trimester fetus. Suddenly available to men hoping...
...insanity; in her second trial, after an appeals court last year threw out her 2002 murder conviction because of erroneous testimony; in Houston. Prosecutors argued Yates failed to meet the definition of insanity because she was fully aware that her actions were wrong. But Yates' lawyers claimed severe postpartum psychosis made her so delusional that she thought the drownings were right. After 12 hours of deliberation, the jury sided with the defense. Following the verdict, Yates was committed to a state mental hospital...