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    What We Miss When We Talk About Home Birth

    JULY 5, 2012 1:57PM

    By Heather Michon


    Topics: home birth, homebirth, mother, pregnancy, infant mortality, maternal mortality, morbidity, dr. amy tuteur, michelle goldberg, jennifer block, cesarean section, postpartum care, prenatal care, labor and delivery, nurses, malpractice, health education

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    • 19 Ratings
    • 4472 Views
    • 26 Comments
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    The Birth Control Conundrum

    MARCH 7, 2012 2:59PM

    By Marcia G. Yerman


    Topics: birth control, sandra fluke, rep. carolyn maloney, women's health care, religious freedom, endometriosis, ovarian cancer, brca, colorectal cancer, birth control access, birth control affordability, affordable care act, pregnancy, unplanned pregnancy, breast-feeding, lisa maatz, aauw, dysmenorrhea, co-pays, blunt amendment, center for reproductive rights, center for american progress, equal justice works, florida legal services, sen. marco rubio, religious freedom restoration act, institute of medicine, oral contraceptives, guttmacher institute, health, women's wews, politics, women's rights

    • Editor's Pick
    • 2 Ratings
    • 3779 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    New DNA Test Tells Baby's Sex At 7 Weeks Pregnant

    AUGUST 11, 2011 10:34AM

    By Christina Simon


    Topics: fetal dna testing, pregnancy, baby gender, family, abortion, feminism

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 3319 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    Motherhood is a lonely land

    AUGUST 8, 2011 1:33PM

    By Alex Cartwright


    Topics: identity issues, motherhood, pregnancy, friendship, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 1309 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    The Time of My Life

    JUNE 17, 2011 10:59AM

    By theliminalstage


    Topics: pop culture, pregnancy, open+call, movies

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 1681 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    A Crone Considers Modern Childbirth

    JUNE 13, 2011 9:16PM

    By joanpgage


    Topics: pregnancy, open call, marie mongan, liminal stage, hypnobirthing, dolphins, childbirth without fear, childbirth, birthing playlist

    • Editor's Pick
    • 1 Ratings
    • 1099 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Pregnancy—It Ain’t What it Used to Be

    MAY 14, 2011 11:19AM

    By joanpgage


    Topics: youtube, the bump, push present, prenatal pilates, pregnancy, open call, labor, fit pregnancy, doula, caesarean, breast pump, birth plan, babymoon, baby daddy

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 1187 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Mute

    APRIL 20, 2011 11:13AM

    By Jennifer Hritz


    Topics: true story, health, pregnancy, brain surgery

    • Editor's Pick
    • 20 Ratings
    • 1464 Views
    • 37 Comments
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    Danny Elfman Saved Me from Going Under the Knife

    APRIL 19, 2011 2:06PM

    By Susie Lindau


    Topics: humor, open+call, only a lad, video, new wave, rock, cesarean section, pregnancy, family, lamaze, birth, music, danny elfman, oingo boingo, saved by pop culture

    • Editor's Pick
    • 25 Ratings
    • 2198 Views
    • 30 Comments
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    Scared and Pregnant

    APRIL 13, 2011 4:25PM

    By Scared and Pregnant


    Topics: first trimester, pregnancy, scared, unplanned, pregnant

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 1525 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    The ”Worst Kind” of Abandonment

    APRIL 1, 2011 1:12PM

    By Consumed


    Topics: nora ephron, ivf, family, expats, divorce, fertility, pregnancy

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 1708 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    Why All the Maternity Clothes?

    MARCH 31, 2011 12:40PM

    By Toby Beth Jarman


    Topics: shopping, family, body image, miscarriage, pregnancy, maternity clothes, spring cleaning, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 2035 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    Expulsion, abandonment not the solution for teen pregnancy

    MARCH 24, 2011 1:29PM

    By Cathy Wilson


    Topics: teen pregnancy, pregnancy, pregnancy prevention, unplanned pregnancy, education, the washington post, explusion, welfare, sex education, sex, abstinence, abstinence-only education, comprehensive sex education, contraception, guttmacher institute, punishment, morality, education, fathers

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 1964 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Broke, Pregnant, Out Of Work: A New Memoir Reviewed

    MARCH 21, 2011 7:46AM

    By Caitlin Kelly


    Topics: travel, news, family, struggling, the recession, pregnancy, writing, authors, books, memoirs, out of work, work, caitlin shetterly

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 1868 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    Attacking abortion via family-planning funds is wrong

    FEBRUARY 17, 2011 3:51PM

    By Cathy Wilson


    Topics: abortion, planned parenthood, title x, low-income women, low-income families, family-planning, family-planning clinics, pap tests, contraception, breast exams, cancer screenings, pregnancy, pregnancy tests, republican spending proposal, congress, politics, preventative health services, pro-choice, anti-choice, women's rights

    • Editor's Pick
    • 27 Ratings
    • 3405 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    A place to call home--single mothers need not apply

    JANUARY 30, 2011 12:35AM

    By Kat Hudson


    Topics: single mother, kat hudson, pregnancy, apartment hunting, real estate, discrimination, infant, baby, jesus, virgin mary, manager, no room at the inn, annapolis maryland, need a place to call home

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 1600 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    Teen Moms: The Seedy Underbelly of an Identity Crisis

    JANUARY 21, 2011 1:06AM

    By tonguedepressor


    Topics: teen pregnancy, pregnancy, memphis, 16 & pregnant, teen mom, identity, feminism, schadenfreude

    • Editor's Pick
    • 16 Ratings
    • 6391 Views
    • 78 Comments
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    When Kids Take the Backseat

    OCTOBER 15, 2010 12:31AM

    By Wilson Diehl


    Topics: real families, true story, children, gender roles, motherhood, parenting, pregnancy

    • Editor's Pick
    • 21 Ratings
    • 11985 Views
    • 64 Comments
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    Circumcision: Willy or Won’t He?

    SEPTEMBER 9, 2010 4:22AM

    By Tracy Brown


    Topics: pregnancy, parenthood, health, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 5715 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    Abortion in Ghana - Where ignorance of the law can be fatal

    JULY 26, 2010 9:59AM

    By Judy Mandelbaum


    Topics: ghana, africa, pregnancy, abortion, guttmacher institute, third world, developing world, reproductive health

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