Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they continued, the road grew more treacherous and the sky more turbulent. The trucks were abandoned, and the fugitives continued on foot. On the second night three children died of cold and exhaustion; the following dawn, as the weary procession reached the border, two pregnant women and a teen-age girl lay down and died. Nonetheless, the group was relatively fortunate: only a few hours after the villagers arrived safely in Pakistan, the first blizzard of the winter obscured the horizon. Dozens of people from neighboring villages who had left just one day later died in the driving snow...
...cane, arrives on the ward to check their charts. The husband of one patient describes the scene: "Looking at a woman like an astonished owl, he'll say, 'Your estrogen is rising nicely.' The diffidence is his means of defense against desperate women. They think he can get them pregnant just by looking at them...
...couples who have struggled for years to have a child, the phrase "you are pregnant" is magical. "We thought we would never hear those words," sighs Risa Green, 35, of Framingham, Mass., now the mother of a month-old boy. But even if the news is good, the tension continues. One-third of IVF pregnancies spontaneously miscarry in the first three months, a perplexing problem that is currently under investigation. Says one veteran of Steptoe's program: "Every week you call for test results to see if the embryo is still there. Then you wait to see if your period...
...latest method that purports to select the sex of offspring is the brainchild of Ronald Ericsson, founder of Gametrics Ltd. of Sausalito, Calif. Ericsson, who has a Ph.D. in reproductive physiology, is the coauthor, with University of California Obstetrician Robert Glass, of a 1982 book, Getting Pregnant in the 1980s. Gametrics' aggressively marketed method has stirred popular interest, but many scientists are skeptical. "This could be Landrum Shettles all over again," says Dr. Joe Leigh Simpson, a spokesman for the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology...
...sperm are further concentrated by being run through increasingly thicker solutions of albumin. "It's like making them run the Boston Marathon with overshoes on," says Ericsson. The prospective mother is then artificially inseminated with the Y-concentrated sperm. Ericsson claims that of 146 women who became pregnant by this method at clinics licensed by Gametrics, 112 bore males-a success rate...