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Pregnant After Miscarriage – Worrying About Getting Pregnant After Miscarriage?

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.

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Debt problems ‘impact negatively on people’s health’

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.

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Babies Having Babies (The Story of Lina Medina)

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.

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More Women Without Children

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.

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CDC birth control guidelines could reduce breastfeeding

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.

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Study finds why some women are sub-fertile with a poor response to ovarian stimulating hormones

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.

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Changes to Guidelines for Contraceptive Use Could Compromise a Woman’s Ability to Breastfeed

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.”

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Pre-Crime? Try Pre-Diagnose and Pre-Drug: Psychiatrists target infants as mental patients

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.

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Most mothers have postpartum symptoms

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.

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Dads’ hormones change, too, during pregnancy

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.

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