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...route to Duprey's San Francisco hospital, sending expectant mothers into trauma and the good doctor into overdrive. It's a promising start, but then Freud fouls the action--on page six, no less. Turns out that Duprey's mother died in an ambulance while giving birth to a stillborn baby, leaving behind our neurotic protagonist, whose mantra is "Save the life! Save the life...
HEAVY MAMAS Pregnant women who are overweight before pregnancy face a threefold increased risk of having a stillborn baby. It's thought that Mom's high lipid levels may somehow impair the placenta's ability to function...
...person. The state supreme court restored the conviction. (Whitner's attorneys plan to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.) Meanwhile, last week, Talitha Renee Garrick, 27, a Columbia woman who said she smoked crack cocaine a little more than an hour before she gave birth to a stillborn child, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in a lower court. Condon relishes the thought that the Whitner case will be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Win or lose, "South Carolina is uniquely poised to have an impact on the nation...
...other families, health problems have been the chief concern. In 1985, Patti Frustaci of Orange, Calif., gave birth to septuplets; one was stillborn, and three died within 19 days. Cerebral palsy and retardation had been diagnosed by the time the three survivors reached age 3. Ultimately, the family won a $2.7 million settlement against the clinic and the doctor who prescribed fertility drugs for Frustaci. She came back for further treatments, however, and this time gave birth to robust twins. She has since left her family; the children are being raised by their father...
ELVIS: THE TWINLESS TWIN'S SEARCH FOR SPIRITUAL MEANING Peter Whitmer, a clinical psychologist and author of the newly published The Inner Elvis (Hyperion; $22.95), argues that Elvis' stillborn twin brother Jesse played a critical and enduring role in the King's life. "Elvis' psychic raison d'etre as a twinless twin was to put himself back together again," says Whitmer. "That was really the power of his creativity--as well as the momentum behind his self-destructive downward spiral...