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After giving birth vaginally, by caesarean and then vaginally again, I nearly lost consciousness reading "Womb Service." The line "Pretty tidy way to conduct the often messy business of childbirth," about Euna Chung's elective caesarean, was most disturbing. Trust me: suffering the effects of major invasive surgery is not a tidy way to do anything. Vaginal birth has been proven to be safest for moms and babies. It is irresponsible for TIME to suggest otherwise. Alana Brown, AVON...
...Freaks and Geeks” or “Veronica Mars,” these great shows had a seemingly endless lifespan compared with those like “Jezebel James.” These are the victims of televised infanticide: they make it out of the pilot-season womb only to be dashed for good three or four episodes later. And there are more of them than you might think.I’m not eulogizing “Jezebel James” because it was a great show. Hell, it even made me cringe a few times. What...
Others seek images inside their tummies. Jennifer Harakal, 30, who went to Visual Miracles in Wayne, N.J., for an enhanced ultrasound that gave her a 3-D look into her womb, says the close-up portraits and videos helped her bond with her daughter. The process also gave her time to reflect on what it meant to be pregnant--something moms who commission pregnancy art say they treasure. "When the baby's born, everyone dotes on how cute he is," says Sandra Leong, 37, whom Loomis photographed pregnant with each of her sons, now 2 months and 3 years...
...would be nice to say that this had something to do with Mrs. Nufer's constitution or her husband's skills with a knife, it was almost certainly because Mrs. Nufer's pregnancy was extrauterine - a freakishly rare form of gestation in which the baby grows outside the womb, in this case probably in the abdomen. Had the baby been inside the uterus, as normal, Mrs. Nufer would have bled to death when the uterine wall was breached. While some contest the accuracy of the story, Mrs. Nufer's is generally accepted as the world's first completely successful cesarean...
...Well, I hunted in my mother's womb because she rode a lot. It's just what I know and what I love...