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The Stranger Guest: The Literature of Pregnancy and New Motherhood
Lily Gurton-Wachter surveys the literature of pregnancy and new motherhood, from Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Rivka Galchen.
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Pregnant Women Who Use Tylenol Risk Having Kids With Autism, ADHD
Paracetamol, commonly known as Panadol and Tylenol, has long been considered a safe medication for pregnant women to take for pain, fever, and even the flu. But a new study suggests that the risk of children experiencing autism spectrum disorder symptoms can be traced back to their mom’s use of OTC painkillers. A team of researchers in Spain studied 2,644 mother-child pairs, starting with pregnancy and going through the child’s fifth birthday. Women were asked if they ever took paracetamol during pregnancy, and if so, if their use was sporadic or persistent.
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I Went to the Hospital to Give Birth…And Tested Positive for Meth
When the nurse first told me, mid-labor, that there were methamphetamines in my system, I cracked up laughing at the absurdity. When child services showed up, it stopped being funny. By Maggie Downs.
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Most Drugs Aren’t Tested on Pregnant Women. This Anti-nausea Cure Shows Why That’s a Problem
For years, Zofran was the most popular morning-sickness medication in the U.S. Now it’s being accused of causing birth defects. The larger issue is a drug-safety system that excludes women from clinical trials, potentially putting them and their babies at risk.
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Scientists Discover The First Ever Safe Way To Send Medication Into the Placenta
For the first time in history, scientists have found a way to safely send drugs into the placenta during pregnancy. This finding holds the possibility of one day being able to avoid premature births and treat common complications that often occur during early pregnancy. At least 10 percent of pregnant women experience serious complications due to error in placenta functioning. This new way of administering drugs without harming the fetus could eliminate such malfunction.
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Brain damage in Zika babies is far worse than expected
Ana Gabriela do Prado Paschoal sat at a desk in a small medical exam room and began a familiar, heartbreaking ritual. Your baby’s head is smaller than normal, Dr. Paschoal told the anxious mother, who had contracted the Zika virus while pregnant.
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Is 50 the new 40 for motherhood?
Janet Jackson might soon become the new symbol of the rise of the 50-year-old mom. The 49-year-old singer/songwriter, who turns 50 next month, announced to fans in a video on Twitter on Wednesday that she would be delaying the second leg of her "Unbreakable" world tour because she and her husband are focused on family planning. "I thought it was important that you be the first to know. My husband and I are planning our family, so I'm going to have to delay the tour," she said with a smile.
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Making sense of a miscarriage
Holly Cave wants to know why her pregnancy ended at nine weeks. There are no easy answers, but talking about miscarriage could help us change the way we think about it.
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An Inmate Found a Novel Way to Avoid Execution. She Paid to Get Pregnant
Four prison guards in northern Vietnam have been suspended for alleged negligence after a female inmate on death row for drug trafficking became pregnant, which means her death sentence will be commuted to life in prison once her child is born, the AP reports. The Thanh Nien newspaper says Nguyen Thi Hue, 42, was arrested in 2012 for drug trafficking and sentenced to death in 2014. A court rejected her appeal the same year.
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Church Doctrine Complicates Situation For Pregnant Women In Zika-Affected Areas
Some governments responded to the Zika epidemic by asking women to delay getting pregnant. Missionary doctor David Vanderpool says the reality for women in Zika-affected areas is far more complex.
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What Happens When A Country Without Abortion Bans Pregnancy?
In response to Zika virus, officials are promoting a two-year ban on pregnancy in El Salvador—where abortions are illegal and birth control is hard to come by.
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CDC: Pregnant women should avoid travel to Brazil, neighboring countries
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a travel alert late Friday that advises pregnant women to avoid traveling to Brazil and about a dozen countries in the Americas where a mosquito-borne virus has been linked to brain damage in babies. Local transmission of the Zika virus has been found in 16 countries and territories: Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico...
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Why would you trust a teen to raise a kid, but not to have an abortion?
Dealing with an unplanned and unwanted pregnancy is a difficult experience for anyone. But for teenagers, who have to juggle increasing, and increasingly complicated, financial and legal barriers to abortion access, “difficult” becomes nearly impossible. And it shouldn’t be. For instance, 21 states require parental consent before a teenager can have an abortion; 13 mandate that at least one parent be notified; and five states mandate both consent and notification.
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Make childbirth safe in U.S.
When I look at what women face giving birth in America today, I notice some historical issues resurfacing. We've come a long way over the past century, but there's a long journey ahead before pregnancy and childbirth are safe for every mother. What surprises me the most is that the United States is the only developed country whose maternal mortality has been consistently on the rise since 1990.
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Unpregnant: The silent, secret grief of miscarriage
When she miscarried in her mid-30s, Alexandra Kimball felt profoundly alone: abandoned by a feminist movement that didn't recognize her loss, accused by conventional wisdom of waiting too long to conceive, and deprived by society of the rituals that mark other forms of grief.
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Hard labour: the case for testing drugs on pregnant women
Traditionally, expectant mothers have been excluded from clinical trials, but could this practice be doing more harm than good? Emily Anthes investigates.
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Pregnancy Risks After Age 35
Find out how your age affects pregnancy -- and what you can to do ensure that both you and your developing baby are safe and healthy.
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