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Mum Gives Birth Into Her Sweat Pants Leg
Now you don't have to ask what she's "packing in that trunk." It's Babies. Ah tracksuit pants, what can’t they do? You can take one more item off that list of things sweat pants can’t do: deliver a baby. It’s not like Katherine Allen was new to baby making; she had twin sons already. So when she called the hospital after feeling labour...
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How to Be a Perfect Labour Partner
The Pregnancy Bible: Your Complete Guide to Pregnancy and Early Parenthood follows every step of pregnancy from conception to labour to postpartum recovery (and even early newborn care). The book, edited by OB-GYNs Joanne Stone, MD and Keith Eddleman, MD, is full of helpful guides, lists and illustrations. This excerpt, "Ways Your Partner Can Help...
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Birth Videos On YouTube Abound
Until I had my first kid, I had never seen a birth all live and up close. Actually, I didn’t see that one either, what with my eyes being so far from the action. On the other hand, I did have a vague idea of what to expect, since my childbirth instructor showed a tonne of birth videos during our six-week class. Also, I watched a minimum of two...
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Birth Film For Traumatised Fathers
Until now, all the important birth films — The Business of Being Born, Orgasmic Birth, Baby Mama — have focused on women’s experiences during pregnancy and labour. But a Missouri filmmaker has turned her lens on fathers and their babies, who, as this eight-minute clip shows, are having traumatic experiences of their own during birth. Wh...
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They Say: Childbirth Hurts and Hypnotherapy Won’t Help
There are few things more infuriating than being told that childbirth shouldn't hurt, as long as you don't fear it. It's one of the reasons so many women -and their partners - sign up to natural birthing classes, hypnotherapy and other forms of birth preparation. But most women will tell you that childbirth absolutely does hurt - it's not called...
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250-Kilo Woman Gives Birth
FOX News is all over the story of a 250-pound woman giving birth to a healthy baby in Russia today. Doctors at Moscow's Maternity Clinic Number 8 were, as the news story says, patting themselves on the back for delivering the healthy baby of a woman "whose weight would normally preclude conception," according to the docs. Preclude conception?...
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YouTube Helps Man Deliver Baby
YouTube: It sucks hours away from our lives by allowing us to watch complete episodes of "T.J. Hooker" and annoying videos about a kid named Fred. But evidently it also is (indirectly) responsible for bringing new life into the world. After watching some how-to videos on YouTube, a British engineer named Marc Stephens delivered his son last mont...
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Woman Gives Birth To Twins On 5th Avenue
It’s a miracle on 5th Avenue. In Manhattan, a 39-year-old woman gave birth to not one but two babies on the busy bustling thoroughfare. At the Mount Sinai Medical Center, one of the maternity nurses heard the screeches of a woman from the street outside. She stated that, “"There's a certain kind of sound that comes from women who are about...
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Software Can Predict Birth Problem
Most births are blessedly trouble-free, but when things go wrong, they can go wrong fast. One such complication is shoulder dystocia, when the baby gets stuck at the shoulders behind the mother’s pubic bone during delivery. While there are risk factors such as having diabetes, being overweight and carrying a big baby, most cases happen without w...
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