August 26, 2010
With all this talk about how natural births are easier for the mother because there are less invasive procedures, we seem to have lost sight of how medicine can actually help us. An obstetrics journal just published a study of 400 women that shows how epidurals are helpful during birth and reduce some of the ...
April 12, 2010
There are a lot of reasons to hate the new movie, The Back-up Plan. The plot looks ridiculous, the couple has no chemistry and J-Lo is trying to play the sweet and approachable girl next door. But when I saw the trailer it was four little words that had me dead set against the film: ...
March 2, 2010
We all know people who raise an eyebrow when a woman announces a surprise pregnancy. Did she poke holes in the condoms, or merely skip some pills? But the latest research shows that men are happier about the accident than women.
October 19, 2009
A French obstetrician has made a controversial statement about giving birth. He claims, based not on research but on anecdotal evidence, that women would be better off if men were once again banned from the delivery room. He claims that ”birth was both easier and faster when male figures were not present”, “that babies’ arrival in ...