| Pregnant women delaying birth | | Posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 12:46:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | Berlin: Expectant mothers in Germany are doing what they can to put off giving birth until January 1 when a generous government aid programme takes effect. The media has been filled with tips and warnings from doctors and midwives about holding off birth until January 1. While experts have warned women to refrain from medical intervention to delay births, they acknowledge the allure of a financial incentive worth up to 25,200 euros (Dh121,631). "We're bracing for a siege on New Year's Day and will have a full staff on hand," said Klaus Vetter, chief doctor at Berlin's Vivantes hospital. Worried about a shrinking population and a birth rate at a post-war low in 2005, the government in September introduced the law to encourage working couples to have children.... | |
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| | | New father Gratton skips game for birth | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 2:46:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | Buffalo, N.Y. Faced with the choice of playing against his former team or seeing his daughter's birth, Panthers forward Chris Gratton decided not to travel for Friday night's game at Buffalo. Instead, Gratton saw Caitlyn Elizabeth -- his second child -- enter the world Thursday at 8 pounds, 10 ounces. Coach Jacques Martin said Gratton probably would join the team in New Jersey before tonight's game against the Devils. .... | |
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| | | Women Sue Over Birth Control Patch | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 6:46:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | SAN FRANCISCO -- More than 40 women sued the makers of a popular birth-control patch Wednesday, claiming the contraceptive caused serious illnesses and at least one death. One lawsuit alleges that 43 women suffered from blood clots and other health ailments after taking Ortho Evra, one of the fastest-growing forms of contraception in the U.S. .... | |
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| | | Book Review: History of Australia's birth as a penal colony is worthwhile | | Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 10:46:45 PM by Blog57 Team | | Australia's most widely known author, Thomas Keneally, tells Australia's story in "A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia." Chance are, if you've read anything on the colonization of Australia, it was Charles Nordhoff's and James Norman Hall's "Botany Bay." That 1941 adventure book for youth was penned by the same duo who romanticized the mutiny on the Bounty, which occurred almost at the same time in the 1780s. Botany Bay, however, was only the target when England sent its first flotilla of ships full of prisoners for Australia, a spot explored earlier by Capt. James Cook. When Arthur Phillip, who commanded the first flotilla, entered Botany Bay, however, he found the shoreline too marshy to settle. Phillip switched to the harbor to the north, called Port Jackson, selecting the site that would become Sydney.... | |
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| | | Survivor Of Amish Shooting Gives Birth | | Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 2:46:20 AM by Blog57 Team | | A pregnant woman who survived the shooting at an Amish school earlier this month has given birth and named the baby after one of the girls who was killed, a newspaper reported Sunday. The 22-year-old woman, who would give her name only as Lydia, gave birth Oct. 10, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The child is named Naomi Rose, after 7-year-old Naomi Rose Ebersol, one of five girls fatally shot by Charles Carl Roberts IV. The gunman took over the West Nickel Mines Amish School on Oct. 2 but released Lydia, along with three other women with infants, and 15 male students. He then tied up and shot 10 young girls, killing five of them, before killing himself. Lydia, a teacher at another nearby school, had gone to the West Nickel Mines school that day to visit her sister-in-law, Emma Mae Zook, who eventually ran to call for help.... | |
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| | | More than 1,500 back birth centre campaign | | Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 12:46:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | Campaigners fighting to save a threatened birthing centre in Hampshire have sent a petition with more than 1,500 signatures to Westminster in a last ditch attempt to stop the closure. The Choose It or Lose It campaigners gathered together outside Romsey Birthing Centre yesterday morning to hand the petition to Romsey MP Sandra Gidley, who will take it to the head of maternity services in Westminster. This petition is the latest in a series of protests by mothers campaigning against proposals for a shake-up of maternity services across south-west Hampshire. .... | |
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| | | Woman gives birth to grandchild | | Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 10:46:10 AM by Blog57 Team | | TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) -- A Japanese woman in her 50s gave birth to a child she had carried for her daughter, who was unable to conceive as she had her womb removed due to cancer, an obstetrician said on Sunday. The case is likely to further stir debate in Japan about births by surrogate mothers, which both the government and a key medical association oppose. Yahiro Netsu, the head of a maternity clinic in the central prefecture of Nagano, told a news conference that the woman gave birth in the first half of 2005 using an egg from her daughter and sperm from the daughter's husband, both in their 30s. Kyodo news agency said it was the first time in Japan that a woman has acted as a surrogate mother for the child of her daughter -- effectively delivering her grandchild.... | |
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| | | Stock Can't Wait; Woman Gives Birth On 101 | | Posted Monday, October 09, 2006 6:46:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | A woman on her way to the hospital gave birth to a healthy baby on the side of U.S. Highway 101 at Bailey Avenue in San Jose early Sunday, according to preliminary reports from a California Highway Patrol dispatcher. The CHP received a call from the father, who had been driving the woman to the hospital, requesting an ambulance at 2:50 a.m., the dispatcher said. One minute later, the father called to say that the baby had been born and that it was breathing and crying, the dispatcher said. The CHP got a doctor on the line to give the couple instructions and an ambulance arrived several minutes later to transport the mother and the baby to a local hospital. According to the dispatcher, both mother and child were doing well when the ambulance arrived.... | |
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| | | Low Birth Weight Babies May Have Mental & Physical Problems | | Posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 2:47:10 AM by Blog57 Team | | Sixteen-year-olds who weighed less than 2,000 grams (about 4.5 pounds) at birth and are not disabled are still more likely than the average teenager to have physical and mental difficulties, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. .... | |
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| | | Japan to raise target figure for birth rate | | Posted Tuesday, September 26, 2006 6:46:24 AM by Blog57 Team | | TOKYO - The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry is determined to set a numerical target for the total fertility rate - the average number of children that a woman gives birth to during her lifetime - aiming to raise the figure from the current 1.25 to around 1.4, as part of measures to prevent a further decline in the number of births, government sources said Saturday. .... | |
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