American Motherhood and the Question of Home Birth
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âThe Business of Being Bornâ is a passionate ground-level examination of home childbirth.
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Daniel McGinnâs âHouse Lust: Americaâs Obsession With Our Homes,â raises several provocative questions that strike at the covetous soul of Americaâs culture.
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U.S. News & World Report - Just check in with the patient and let me know how she did overnight, my resident instructed me. A straightforward task, I thought, but still, nothing comes easy the first days on the hospital wards as a third-year student. I peered into the room and saw my patient cradled in her mother's arms. An 11-month-old who recently arrived from Guam, she had a raging ear infection. Her mother looked weary from the long nights. What could I offer? More immediately, where to begin?
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To dye or not to dye. That is the question in the latest feminist debate over aging and authenticy
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There is a dissonance between two camps of modern liberal ideology, both of which have had a deep influence on my thinking. On the one hand there is the green ideology that advocates buying locally produced products or growing your own and the general  reduction of energy usage. On the other there is the drop the debt coalition that is attempting to help the developing world drag itself up and become a richer place.   This article is my attempt to resolve their influence on my own beliefs, with regards to philanthropy.
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Mumbai, December 20: By listening intently to movements and heartbeats, American researchers have found that the foetuses of mothers who are stressed or depressed, respond differently from those of emotionally healthy women.
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Having a nurse visit the home a few days after a woman has a baby reduces the number of newborns being readmitted to the hospital with jaundice or dehydration
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When my wife was in labor in 1991, the doctor attached an electronic fetal monitor to her belly to record her contractions and the baby's heart rate. I remember being so transfixed by the monitor that I forgot about my wife. At one point, she said, "Wow, it hurts." But because the graph on the...
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By MATTHEW VERRINDER HACKENSACK, N.J. - A 60-year-old woman became a mother, twice over, when she delivered a pair of boys Tuesday. Frieda Birnbaum gave birth to &quot;Baby A&quot; at 12:44 p.m.
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There may be an extra benefit for women who give birth later in life -- a longer life of their own.
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NEW YORK  - When a pregnant woman's labor  is difficult, doctors often must choose between performing a  c-section or using instruments to delivery the baby through the  birth canal. Now, new research suggests that a cesarean is less  likely to cause sexual and urinary problems for the mother.
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Home nurse visits shortly after mothers return from the hospital with their babies can reduce the number of infant emergency department visits and hospitalizations while also lowering health-care costs.
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By Charlyne Varkonyi Schaub  Bernadette Upton gives mothers-to-be a wakeup call with one sentence.
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Editor's note: This is the second of two articles about Dr. Don Hillger. American independence has always been a part of our culture, however there is a time when unbridled independence is counter productive.
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RALEIGH, N.C. - If a pregnant Stephanie Green asks for a ride to the hospital, beware: she has a history of giving birth in cars. For the second time in 17 months, Green had a baby Tuesday while en route to a hospital. Doctors planned to induce labor Thursday, but baby Zaria had other plans.
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Taking Questions: Erin Sheehan, an editor of the Web site UrbanBaby, is taking questions from readers this week on parenting in urban areas.
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FRIDAY, Feb. 4 (HealthDayNews) -- A mother's love may be unconditional, but her genes can be a burden for some children, research suggests.