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C-Section Births Tied to Obesity
 C-Section Births 
 Tied to Obesity 
new study
May 24, 2012 10:01 AM CDT

C-Section Births Tied to Obesity

Researchers suspect link relates to bacteria exposure

(Newser) - Caesarian sections are on the rise in the United States, but a new study out yesterday indicates that the surgical birth method may have an unexpected consequence. It found that babies born by C-section are twice as likely to be obese by age three, reports the Washington Post . Researchers reviewing...

Labor Lasts 3 Hours Longer Than It Did in 1960s
Labor Lasts 3 Hours Longer Than It Did in 1960s
study says
Apr 4, 2012 9:13 AM CDT

Labor Lasts 3 Hours Longer Than It Did in 1960s

Study suggests epidurals may be to blame

(Newser) - The good news for modern women giving birth: The use of epidural anesthesia is massively more common than it was 50 years ago. The bad news: Those very drugs may be to blame for labor lasting longer than it did 50 years ago. Today's first-time mothers spend 2.6...

January Jones: I'm Eating My Son's Placenta

'I suggest it to all moms,' says Mad Men actress

(Newser) - Yikes. Seems like the former Betty Draper is a bit of a scary ice princess after all. Mad Men actress January Jones, who plays Don's chilly ex , reveals to People that she's eating her baby boy's placenta. The placenta "gets dehydrated and made into vitamins,”...

Woman Has 75-Day Labor to Save Twins

Also: Joanna Krzysztonek did this lying upside down

(Newser) - It's hard to pick what to emphasize: That Joanna Krzysztonek endured labor for 75 days to save her twins or that she did so lying virtually upside down. Reuters explains: Krzysztonek was supposed to have triplets, but she went into labor in her fifth month. After one baby died,...

Induced Labor Lets Dying Dad See Baby

Texas man with colon cancer wept holding child

(Newser) - A Texas man with only a few days left to live held his newborn baby daughter for the first time—because his wife had her labor induced two weeks early, the AP reports. Holding tiny Savannah in a hospital bed, Mark Aulger "cried, and he just looked very sad,...

Meet Chun Chun, China's Biggest Baby?

He weighed 15.5 pounds at birth

(Newser) - Chun Chun is less than a week old, but it looks like he's already a record-holder in China. He weighed 15.5 pounds at birth, with local media in central Henan province speculating that he's the biggest newborn in the nation's history, reports the Times of India ...

How to Give Birth Like a Celebrity

Lots of hospitals roll out the perks for well-heeled expectant parents

(Newser) - The feverishly publicized arrival of celebri-baby Blue Ivy to Jay-Z and Beyonce has revealed the ultra-luxe treatment in hospitals that a A-list celebs can attain. ( Rumor has it that an entire wing of Manhattan's Lenox Hill hospital was sealed off for the couple). Private birthing in style and...

Twin Birth Rate Up 76% in 30 Years

Increased infertility treatments and older moms behind the rise

(Newser) - The number of twins has surged in the past 30 years, according to a new government study. The twin birth rate went from 189 out of 10,000 births (or 1 out of 53) in 1980 to 333 out of 10,000 births (or 1 out of 30) in 2009—...

Midwife Delivers Own Baby
 Midwife Delivers Own Baby  
Dec 30, 2011 1:10 AM CST

Midwife Delivers Own Baby

I 'went into autopilot,' British mom says

(Newser) - When a British woman went into labor more than three weeks early there was no time to get to the closest hospital in Kent. But luckily enough, there was a midwife present: herself. The 28-year-old midwife, who had finished a 13-hour shift at a London hospital just a few hours...

Muslim Hits Nurse for Removing Wife's Burka During Birth

He gets 6 months for slugging French health-care worker

(Newser) - A Muslim man has been sentenced to six months in a French prison for slugging a nurse as she removed his wife's burka during childbirth. Nassim Mimoune, 24, was first ejected from the delivery room at a Marseille hospital after he accused the health-care worker of "rape" during...

Performance Artist Gives Birth in New York Gallery

Video will be added to an upcoming exhibit

(Newser) - Yep, she went through with it . New York performance artist Marni Kotak gave birth to a healthy baby boy yesterday morning at the Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, in front of a small crowd of family, friends, and select spectators, the AP reports. "The atmosphere in the...

Performance Artist to Give Birth Live

She calls it 'The Birth of Baby X'

(Newser) - Audience members may want to bring smelling salts and a few handkerchiefs for this one. A Brooklyn performance artist says she will give birth before a live audience at her new installation, "The Birth of Baby X," the New York Post reports. “I hope that people will...

'Dead' Baby Cries Before Burial

Startled undertaker was prepping newborn for her funeral

(Newser) - It was almost a miracle: A Brazilian baby believed to be dead started crying at the funeral home where an undertaker was about to prepare her for burial, reports the AP . Cops say doctors declared the infant dead yesterday, moments after her 14-year-old mother gave birth to her two months...

Diabetes May Explain Big Babies

Mom's gestational diabetes could be a big factor

(Newser) - Granted there isn't a ton of room in the womb for exercise, but what causes some babies—like the 16-pound boy born in Texas —to grow so large? Gestational diabetes in pregnant mothers could be a major cause, reports the Los Angeles Times . It picks up on an...

Woman's Sleeping Position May Affect Stillbirth Risk

Those who lie on their left side have less risk, study suggests

(Newser) - A British study suggests that women who sleep on their left side on the last night of pregnancy have less risk of giving birth to a stillborn child, reports the Guardian . The researchers were quick to say their study in the British Medical Journal is only the "starting point...

Tilda on Childbirth: 'Murderous' and 'Violent'

Actress criticizes Hollywood birth scenes for being unrealistic

(Newser) - Childbirth as depicted in the movies may be "all really lovely," complete with flowers everywhere and "magically" made-up moms—but for actress Tilda Swinton, it's "a truly, truly murderous business." Never shy about being unconventional , Swinton says: "It’s violent. And if one...

Nicholas Kristof: Family Planning and Modern Contraceptives Can Stop Needless Deaths From Pregnancy Complications
 Mother's Day Wish: 
 No More Needless Deaths 
NicholAS Kristof
May 8, 2011 7:00 AM CDT

Mother's Day Wish: No More Needless Deaths

Modern contraceptives in poor nations can save thousands: Kristof

(Newser) - For Mother's Day, how about we do something to reduce the 350,000 deaths of mothers during childbirth each year, suggests Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times . Congress has the power to help, but it would involve one of the big Republican taboos—"family planning." He...

C-Sections, Obesity Cited in Rise of Pregnancy Deaths

African-American women have four times the risk

(Newser) - A new report in California shows a troubling rise in deaths related to pregnancy, with Caesarean sections and obese mothers blamed in part for the spike. Maternal deaths rose from 8 per 100,000 live births in 1999 to 14 per 100,000 births in 2008, reports the Bay Citizen...

61-Year-Old Gives Birth ... to Own Grandson

She volunteers to help her daughter and son-in-law have a child

(Newser) - It seems at first blush like a crazy tabloid story: A 61-year-old woman gives birth in Chicago, and the baby is her own grandson. Not only is it true, it's actually a nice tale, as the Chicago Tribune explains. Kristen Casey, believed to be the oldest woman in Illinois to...

Hospitals Ban Early Elective Childbirths

Pilot program will discourage inducing labor before 39 weeks

(Newser) - About two dozen hospitals across the country will have a new message for pregnant women in the new year: Don't ask us to induce labor until your 39 weeks are up. The hospitals will ban early elective childbirth under a pilot program sponsored by the March of Dimes, which maintains...

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