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75Stillborn Babies
What happens when pregnancy goes wrong ? have you had a still born child or know someone that has. In the UK 1 in 3000 children that are born are stillborn. Going through a still birth labour can be terrible and the after effects remain with you for life.
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85Childbirth - in like a banana, out like a pineapple!
“Granny! Auntie Daf!” Fenella called out again. The blood wasa steady trickle dripping into the toilet bowl.Her Granny and Auntie Daf hurried to the toilet, and bothcrowded around Fenella in the tiny...
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72The Miracle of Waterbirth
Photo by The Picture People. I was 36 weeks along with Gavin. When I was pregnant with my daughter in 2001, I did an enormous amount of research on what kind of birth I wanted. It was then that I stumbled...
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96How to deliver a baby at home (emergency situation)
Delivering a baby at home, unassisted, can cause fear in the most courageous heart, but really, it needn't. Birth is a very natural process and, in most cases, not a medical emergency. Unplanned homebirth, even unplanned CAR birth, happens all the time with happy results all around.
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70Nipple Confusion
Yes as it sounds I have my conspiracy theory hat on, only a bit though, it's at a sexy tilt.The theory...That babies who are given bottles or pacifiers too early may prefer these to the nipple. In the case of...
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64The Miracle of Waterbirth Part II
June Lily Cox When I found out I was pregnant in October 2007, I was VERY excited. I had been using an IUD as our chosen form of contraceptive and we had decided that that we were ready to try for another...
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62EMERGENCY CHILD BIRTH
EMERGENCY CHILD BIRTH If a pregrant woman complains of recurriing pains of a griping character coming on at regular and decreasing intervals (“labour pains”), she must be regarded as an urgent case...
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74How to Prepare for Natural Childbirth
As I planned this hub, I had to make a decision: I could either make this personal and express my feelings throughout the hub in a subjective manner, or I could be entirely objective and pass on information...
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72Working Women: It's Nothing New
Many people assume that women did not start working outside the home until the late 1960s or the 1970s. Not true. I'm not talking about Rosie the Riveter or all the women who worked at aircraft factories and...
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70Why Choose a Midwife?
The World Health Organization states that “midwives are the most appropriate primary health care providers to be assigned to the care of normal birth.”
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