5 weeks pregnant symptoms
Your dreams and hopes were shattered when your doctor conscience you that you have a miscarriage. It’s difficult to arrive to terms through your pregnancy loss. You are perhaps feeling guilty and are blaming yourself for the pregnancy loss. One of my friends who had a miscarriage told me that she didn’t get over her pregnancy loss until she was pregnant again.
The Guardian
United Kingdom
Jill Insley
July 21, 2010
Consumer Credit Counselling Service report says debt problems affect people’s relationships and ability to work
More than eight out of 10 people with debt problems say their financial difficulties are having a negative effect on their lives, jeopardising their personal relationships, health and ability to carry out their jobs, according to a debt counselling charity.
The Consumer Credit Counselling Service (CCCS) found that debt problems had adversely affected the relationships that 37% of the 372 clients surveyed have with their partners, and 22% with their children.
July 19, 2010
On Mother’s Day, 1939, Lina Medina gave birth to a healthy six pound baby boy. But this was no ordinary pregnancy – the new mother was only five and a half years old.
Medical documentation revealed that Lina had begun showing signs of menstruation when she was eight months old, and she started having regular periods at age three.
Pew Research Center Publications
by Gretchen Livingston and D’Vera Cohn, Pew Research Center
June 25, 2010
Nearly one-in-five American women ends her childbearing years without having borne a child, compared with one-in-ten in the 1970s. While childlessness has risen for all racial and ethnic groups, and most education levels, it has fallen over the past decade for women with advanced degrees.
Mother Talkers
Rants and raves on modern motherhood
by desmoinesdem
Wed Jun 30, 2010 at 09:03:49 PM PDT
cross-posted at Bleeding Heartland
The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine warns that recently updated “birth control guidelines released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) could undermine mothers who want to breastfeed,” I learned from the ByMomsForMoms blog, sponsored by Lansinoh.
Physorg.com
June 29, 2010
Researchers have discovered that some women carry a genetic variation that makes them sub-fertile and less likely to respond to ovarian stimulating hormones during fertility treatment. The discovery opens the way to identifying these women and devising personalised fertility treatments that could bypass the problem caused by the genetic abnormality.
HealthCanal.com
New Rochelle, NY, – New birth control guidelines released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) could undermine mothers who want to breastfeed by sanctioning the use of progesterone injections, progestin-only pills, as well as combined (progestin-estrogen) oral contraceptives within the first month after giving birth.
June 25, 2010
“The new guidelines ignore basic facts about how breastfeeding works,” says Dr. Gerald Calnen, President of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM). “Mothers start making milk due to the natural fall in progesterone after birth. An injection of artificial progesterone could completely derail this process.”
By Leslie Carol Botha
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Posted in Birth Control, Birth Control Pills/BCP's, Depo Provera, Estrogen, Hormones, Infertility, Menstrual Suppression, Pregnancy, Progesterone, Synthetic Hormones, Women's Health, Women's Politics
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Citizens Commission on Human Rights International
By CCHR International
June 23, 2010
A new study, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry and headed by psychiatrist John H. Gilmore, professor of psychiatry and Director of the UNC Schizophrenia Research, claims to be able to detect “brain abnormalities associated with schizophrenia risk” in infants just a few weeks old. We would like to point out the obvious flaw in this bogus study; there is no medical/scientific test in existence that schizophrenia is a physical disease or brain abnormality to start with.
UPI.com
June 18, 2010
LEIPZIG, Germany, June 18 (UPI) — As many as 70 percent of all mothers experience symptoms of postpartum depression but most recover quickly, German and Canadian researchers say.
USA Today
By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY
June 14, 2010
As Lance Somerfeld learned, babies are excellent teachers.
His son provided round-the-clock on-the-job training, free of charge.
Within days of becoming a father, the 36-year-old New York City resident learned how to soothe a fussy baby. How to burp him, feed him and swaddle him.
Yet in some ways, Somerfeld’s son began shaping him into a father even before delivery.