pregnancy

On 03DEC an unnamed woman was declared dead in a hospital in Dublin; however as she was pregnant (~18 weeks) doctors refused to terminate life support due to the provisions of the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution. The hospital and the Health Service Executive too the matter to the High...

Obviously, this plays into the abortion rights arguments, but as a man this is something I don't think I know much about. For our mothers here, how would you describe your pregnancy? A minor imposition? A huge imposition? Painful? Brief? Unpleasant? Degrading? Anyhting else? Did you feel like...

I originally posted this on skeptics.stackexchange.com, but it's not a question suited to the site. So I'm trying again here. My wife and I recently found out we're expecting. While looking into a hospital for the delivery, I found that all the hospitals in my area use midwives for the births...

Pregnant Women May Have 1 or 2 Drinks Weekly Without Harm, Study Finds Except, it's even better than the headline suggests:

Hi folks. So a member of my family, who is typically not a nut job, is convinced that Sarah Palin faked her pregnancy, and that she even switched babies at one point. As evidence she sites blogs like this: http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2010/02/tale-of-two-babies-by-sarah-palin.html...

http://www.ahjonline.com/article/S0002-8703(09)00897-7/abstract The authors postulate why the results of their study indicate that women who have more or less than two pregnancies have a higher risk of developing heart disease:

Read this insane story I found on boingboing - a girl with no vagina gets pregnant by being stabbed after fellatio. Phew - quick, someone, a cold sponge on the back of my neck! But I have a question. If she has no vagina, what would happen during/after her period? Also looks like it could be...

Chile weightlifter has unexpected baby during training Even though the baby was born prematurely, how is it even possible for a woman not to realize she is pregnant so late in a pregnancy?

A friend of my friend has been thinking about having a baby for some time now, but she is a bit scared of the H1N1 virus. In fact a little more than a bit scared, her words: "We have no facts. Only assumptions. Just this weekend a mother and a baby under six months old died. Pregnant women get...

This is probably old hat for parents, but it may be of interest to others. In humans and some other animals, semen includes a prostoglandin, oxytocin, which is similar to or the same as the oxytocin released by pregnant women's pituitary glands to start the process of labour. Intending parents...

This is the sequel to my previous thread about Life and Death ( http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=140404 ). Now, it is time to blur the line between "pregnancy" and "non-pregnancy". I have been reminded, a few times now, about how pregancy is being modeled as a...

It's true! Up-the-duff sheilas (pregnant women) can now not just use the "I'm stupid 'coz I'm pregnant" old wives tale; they can claim some scientific authenticity. Only a small sample, but unless you've never known a pregnant woman, little confirmation was needed. Coming on top of thoughts...

"The complete guide to Homeopathic and Nutrintional Pregnancy and Childbirth" I was checking out a site for some freelance work and came across this: http://www.ifreelance.com/project/detail.aspx?projectid=31713 It's bad enough that people waste their money and ruin their own health with...

Hello, everyone -- For those who don't know, I'm just over 6 months pregnant. Jackalpup should be coming along in August. I'm curious as to whether any of you folks out there have run into various unsupported ideas -- whether it be "old wives' tales" or other kinds of superstitions -- and...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6687761.stm Bold=me. How do you underestimate "no evidence" of a risk? Nanny-state, or "Well, it's best to be safe isn't it?" . . . ?

This morning, my mother told me about an interesting story she heard on the radio. They were discussing the Dutch royals, Prince Frederik and Princess Mary and the birth of their daughter. It had been something like 50+ years since there was a princess in the royal family. A man identifying...

No not that way. I went to a retirement party for a nice fertility specialist doctor dude. He talked about how even though over the years he has had a whole plethora of drugs added to his treatment options, he found a few tried and true methods worked for a large majority of women over the...

i am trying to find info on the age women began menstruation and began pregnancy in the ancient world for a paper. can anybody help? i can't find any info online.

"I can give up smoking at any time, but I don't find it affects my pregnancy." So sayeth the sweet 12 year old girl in Edinburgh. Why are you looking at me like that? She told me she was 14.

Last week we brought a male dog so our female Schnauzer would get pregnant and so they spent one day together. Today, our female dog was out for a few minutes with no supervision and we suspect that maybe a street dog could get lucky, so we were wondering (at the risk of sounding plain dumb, but...

We have to think on the issue the unnatural pregnancy, which we can see in the young girls these are not very good symptoms this is due to carelessness of parents. Most of the parents shy on taking about this matter to the children this very bad.

Really! We've all heard these news stories. The newborn falls out into the toilet and the woman had no clue. Really! My mother (bore 5 children) says this is impossible. Yet, I have heard of such accounts several times over. Hoping to hear from the mothers on board, and to-be doctor(s).