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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deborah-klein-walker/curbing-deliveries-before-39-weeks_b_1299521.html?ref=parents-pregnancy More must be done to reduce the threat posed by elective deliveries of healthy babies before 39 weeks, which often are scheduled for reasons that have more to do with convenience than with health… (click to read on Huffington Post)

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Is Pregnancy Making You Too Hip? Hear YTU Instructor Tiffany Chambers-Goldberg tell her journey into pregnancy…(click to read on yogatuneup.com) http://www.yogatuneup.com/blog/2011/08/31/is-pregnancy-making-you-too-hip/

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Great blog about women’s fears in pregnancy. Poignant and honest. (Click to read on http://navelgazingmidwife.squarespace.com)

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myobsaidwhat.com

Wow. MUST READ!

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British scientists have shown for the first time how our brain “wiring” develops in the first few months of life and say their findings will help in the understanding of a range of brain and psychiatric disorders (click to read article on News Daily)

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Consumers Union is urging pregnant women to avoid eating tuna altogether and advising small children to limit consumption after tests on dozens of cans and pouches of tuna found mercury in every sample. (click to read on NYT.com)

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The process of birth is not a Hollywood script with harp music, diaphanous robes, and sweetly smiling cherubim. It is work made of muscle, sinew, sweat, blood, and love. By toning the body, mind, and spirit, yoga can help a mother be present for the miracle of birth. “Yoga helps you prepare for the unknown [...]

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Pregnancy can present any number of challenges as the body goes through so many vast changes over a relatively short period of time. Some common conditions that women face are swelling, leg cramps and lower and middle back pain. As the baby grows in the uterus, the added weight can cause strain in the joints [...]

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  Astonishing photojournalism from NYT photographer Marco Vernaschi… “Standing in the only operating room in the only medical hospital in all of Guinea-Bissau, Marco Vernaschi watched a nurse take an unsterile needle out of her pocket and, without anesthetic, suture a woman’s vagina after a difficult childbirth. The woman screamed. Mr. Vernaschi took a photograph. [...]

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