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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Birth is a strange little movie, dutifully advancing a premise that grows more dubious with each passing minute. However, it&#39;s difficult to totally discount the film, mostly because Nicole Kidman keeps us interested.
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Where would you rather have your baby delivered -- at a prestigious Boston teaching hospital or at a community hospital near your home? My guess is most people would opt for the teaching hospital.
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Electronic voting in the US. The saga continues. Here is an interesting comparision with a Venezuelan referendum. &quot;80% of Americans could correctly name the first President Bush&#39;s pet dog Millie, but only
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A recent study by researchers from the Bristol University was published in the journal Thorax. The report is likely to cause an alarm among pregnant women and mothers of newly born.
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BIRTH. With Nicole Kidman, Danny Huston, Cameron Bright, Lauren Bacall. Director: Jonathan Glazer (1:40). R: Sexuality. The literal-mindedness with which most people watch movies is likely to be the doom of Jonathan Glazer&#39;s &quot;Birth.
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A Florida Supreme Court case raises fundamental questions about the nature of fatherhood and legal responsibilities.
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Overscheduled kids. Overprotective parents. They're hot-button media issues, but are they really the problems faced by most American families?
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Adolescents who have two moms as parents are no different from teens growing up with a mother and a father, a new study finds. On measures of psychosocial well-being, school
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By Charlyne Varkonyi Schaub  Bernadette Upton gives mothers-to-be a wakeup call with one sentence.
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http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1042 3886&fsrc=RSS Looking for the right man SIR â My husband and I enjoyed your article on spousal selection and its finding that women have better choices the higher the ratio of males to females (âA buyers' marketâ, December 15th). But there may be limits to this. We travelled to Alaska ten years ago and read several [...].
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In Iraq, a birth worth blogging about.
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This kind of sibling relationship is different. But how? A case study.
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NEW YORK  - Women who are overweight or  obese before becoming pregnant generally spend a longer time in  labor than thinner women do, a new study suggests.
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A Romanian woman, thought to be the world's oldest mother, has defended her decision to give birth at the age of 66. Tell us what you think.
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For decades, doctors have operated on babies born with ambiguous genitalia. But there is a growing debate about the role physicians Â and parents Â should play in physically shaping children.
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NEW YORK - A New York woman who gave birth to twins just days before she turns 57 showed off her babies to the public today. The mom and the newborns are doing great the day after their delivery.