Childbirth: Position of Womanâs Body Could Ease Delivery
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Women who go onto their hands and knees while in labor may be able to reduce the pain of childbirth, researchers say.
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Women are more likely to develop urinary incontinence if their mothers or older sisters also have this problem. Urinary incontinence in women is known to be linked to factors such as age, obesity and childbirth injury.
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Scientists think they have figured out why pregnant women don't lose their balance and topple over despite ever-growing weight up front. Evolution provided them with slight differences from men in their lower backs and hip joints, allowing them to adjust their center of gravity, new research shows.
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(National-NBC) Oct. 29, 2004 - A new study finds overweight and obese women have longer labors than healthy weight women. Researchers say this could increase the risk for complications such as cesarean section births.
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U.S. women are dying from childbirth at the highest rate in decades, new government figures show. Though the risk of death is very small, experts believe increasing maternal obesity and a jump in Caesarean sections are partly to blame.
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Medical intervention is becoming more common for women giving birth, a federal report released yesterday shows. Almost half of Canadian women have epidurals for pain relief during vaginal delivery.
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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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Public health officials are now encouraging women to make sure they are in optimal health well in advance of a pregnancy.
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Pregnant women may have long suspected it, but a new Australian study has confirmed that carrying a baby can make mothers-to-be more forgetful.
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NEW YORK  - Pregnant women who put on more  pounds than generally recommended are more likely to undergo a  Cesarean delivery, according to a new study.
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Fetuses of mothers who show high rates of depression, anxiety and stress weigh less and are smaller than average at midterm, according to a recent study from the University of Miami School of Medicine.
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CONNELLSVILLE, Pa. - A woman gave birth to a boy outside a western Pennsylvania hospital, a delivery that happened so quickly that the infant wound up in the woman's pants. &quot;It happened so fast,&quot; Rebecca Johnson, 24, told the Daily Courier in Connellsville.
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NEW YORK  - Women who are particularly anxious about their pregnancy may be at increased risk of premature delivery, a new study suggests.
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Women who attempt to deliver their babies vaginally after a Caesarean section face some health threats to themselves and their babies, although those risks are small.
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Belly dancing is helping pregnant women shimmy their way through drug-free labor
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Women who try to give birth naturally  after having had a Caesarean face a slightly higher risk of  serious medical problems, according to a comprehensive study  released on Tuesday.
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Pregnant women should be offered an alternative to caesareans if they are facing breech births, experts say.