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Michelle Bica, 39, prepared methodically for her baby. She decorated a room in her home in Ravenna, Ohio, readied lots of baby bottles and set up the monitor in the kitchen. She had miscarried last year but soon announced happily that she was pregnant again. As her due date approached, however, she kept bumping it later and later. Then, on Sept. 27, she presented her husband Thomas with a healthy boy. The birth, she explained, happened quickly and dramatically. Her water broke, an ambulance came to take her to a hospital in Akron, and she left the facility almost immediately...
...personed bitch tied together by dog leashes," presumably trying to emphasize the contrast between her syrupy sweet reception of Agamemnon and her cold-blooded dispatching to Hades of the same. All of this is aimed at drawing out the turmoil already inherent in the play's pregnant lines, but which is often relegated to the climactic ending. Theater purists may blanch, but it should be delightful. The show premieres at Harvard before heading to New York in February...
...happily married mother of a four-year-old boy, was stunned last year to learn she was again pregnant. She and her husband--who had relied on the rhythm method and condoms for birth control--had been renovating their home outside Seattle, using a number of caustic chemicals. "I thought about the chemicals I had been exposed to and I thought about our very busy lives," Amy says. "I know what I can handle, and our lives were not settled enough or prepared enough for another child." She decided, with her husband's support, to have an abortion...
...hospital than they do at home." Women who opt for the abortion pill must make up their minds very quickly. Since conception occurs about 14 days after a menstrual cycle begins, they actually have 35 days from the time they miss their period to suspect they are pregnant, decide to abort and set up the appointments. (Home-pregnancy tests will help.) But once they do, many women find the process oddly comforting. Although they expel the fetus, all they see is a bloody mass that's unrecognizable. The nausea passes soon after the expulsion is over, and they...
...BABIES An infant's birth weight may be a function of how much social support the expectant mother receives during pregnancy. Researchers at UCLA and the University of California at Irvine interviewed nearly 250 pregnant women, gathering data about the baby's father, the baby's grandparents and the mother's close friendships. They found that women who received support from multiple sources tended to have bigger babies, perhaps because they were encouraged to stop smoking and start eating better...