During a pandemic, a home birth starts looking better every second. Midwives with their specialized skills in low-risk normal birth can be of great service.
You've heard pregnant women talk about nesting, whether that's painting the nursery, or cleaning the house from top to bottom before their baby arrives. But new research turns 'nesting' on its head.
Employers are required to accommodate the needs of pregnant women only in limited circumstances.
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Prison food budgets are as low as £1.87 per person per day. This may not be enough to provide adequate nutrition for a pregnant woman and her baby.
The emotional and physical experiences of fatigue, stress, anxiety, and isolation are almost never seen in the popular images of pregnancy.
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Unlike Beyoncé, a group of Australian women documenting their own pregnancies captured mundane images of track pants, barren wardrobes and self-portraits in a bathroom mirror.
There’s no such thing as a perfect pregnancy body.
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Embryos greedily want more resources than their fair share. New research investigates how early in evolution their hormonal tactics arose.
Pregnant women in three Australian cities are not told that lead exposure during pregnancy is linked to miscarriage and early delivery.
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Parents in three Australian states are being given misleading advice about the dangers of lead to babies and small children – including failing to warn pregnant women about miscarriage risks.