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Archive for the 'Pregnancy' Category

Baby Products: What to Get and What to Forget

Are you pregnant and trying to decide what baby products to buy? Or what baby gear to register for? With the plethora of baby “stuff” in stores these days, it can be overwhelming to determine what you need and what you can live without. We don’t all have unlimited space in our houses or unlimited [...]

Premature Birth Report Card: U.S. Gets a ‘D’

Earlier this month, the March of Dimes released the first annual report card for preterm births and the results are shocking. Not a single state in the U.S. received an ‘A’, and only Vermont received a ‘B’. In 2005, the U.S. preterm birth rate was 12.7% (the most recent year for data). The preterm birth [...]

The Rights of Childbearing Women

I recently came across a great resource for childbirth; the Childbirth Connection website. As I was writing an article on the evidence-based maternity care report that was issued in part by them, I looked at more areas of their website and was so excited by all that I found! There is a lot of great [...]