Childbirth:
Childbirth, labor pains, giving birth, child birth.
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Nov 12th, 2008
The March of Dimes in its first state-by-state "Premature Birth Report Card" graded the U.S. a "D" overall.
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Nov 11th, 2008
Mental health of a pregnant mother can have an effect during childbirth. Women with a history of mental illness are at higher risk of having children that are stillborn or die within the first month of life.
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Nov 10th, 2008
Within hours of taking his first breath on Aug. 1, unknown to everyone around him, Destin Hamilton was getting sicker by the minute. The newborn had a genetic defect creating a dangerously high ammonia level that typically leads to brain damage and often death.
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Nov 6th, 2008
Masimo announced a new SofTouch disposable pulse oximetry sensor developed specifically for the fragile skin and size of extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants.
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Nov 4th, 2008
Two non-surgical treatments most commonly used to correct the condition known as clubfoot have similarly high levels of success.
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Nov 1st, 2008
Pregnant women whose labor stalls while in the active phase of childbirth can reduce health risks to themselves and their infants by waiting out the delivery process for an extra two hours.
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Oct 31st, 2008
Children who are breastfed are less likely to suffer from behavioral or mental health issues than those who are not breastfed.
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Oct 30th, 2008
Doctors need not go straight to Caesarean section when delivering twins, but can start with vaginal delivery of the first twin in many cases, researchers have found in a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center.
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Oct 26th, 2008
Groundbreaking new surgery on identical twins was performed within the mother's womb leading to their successful birth this week in Minnesota. Babies Gavin and Owen Cassellius were diagnosed at 19 weeks of pregnancy as having a shared placenta where one twin looses blood to the other and the death of one or both is them is the usual result.
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Oct 25th, 2008
A new study of Colorado birth records shows that infants with low Apgar scores — the widely used measure of newborn health — are 10 times less likely to receive an initial hearing loss screening than babies with normal Apgars.