Word: pregnant
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...years doctors have been stressing that all pregnant women should have intensive prenatal care. But last week the U.S. Public Health Service issued a report from a federal panel of experts that urged less prenatal care -- at least for some women. About 1.6 million of the nearly 4 million women who give birth annually have no evident health problems that could jeopardize them or their babies. The panel recommended that physicians cut back -- from 13, to seven or eight -- the number of office visits typically scheduled. The group also suggested curbing some routine procedures, including blood-pressure readings, pelvic examinations...
...Healthy pregnant women waste a lot of time and money going to the doctor," declares the panel's chairman, Dr. Mortimer Rosen of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City...
Members of Students for Choice said yesterday they expect between 50 and 100 students to join their demonstration against the counselling clinic, which is located in Harvard Square. They said they were protesting because the center gives misleading medical information in an effort to keep pregnant women from having abortions...
Students for Choice members said they decided to picket after one of their members. Ann Sydor, posed as a patient to see how the clinic counsels pregnant women. Sydor, a Harvard graduate student, was strongly advised against having an abortion, Students for Choice members said...
Lawyers and self-styled adoption consultants -- many of them people who have successfully adopted -- encourage would-be parents to do their own legwork. Classified sections of newspapers are loaded with often highly personal ads detailing a couple's medical history and inviting pregnant women to call collect anytime. In her book Beating the Adoption Game, clinical psychologist Cynthia Martin offers tips: "Contact physical-education teachers, who frequently are the first to realize a young girl is pregnant; contact the school nurse to find out if anyone has morning sickness. Never talk to the principal, who may not want to know...