In the United States, where abortion rights are under direct attack, The Doula Project is promoting services for women who are terminating their pregnancies. The remit of a doula is to provide non-medical support through the latter stages of pregnancy and birth. American States have passed over eighty laws this year restricting a woman’s right ...
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day was Saturday, October 15th, a day acknowledged by Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom in remembrance of miscarriage, stillbirth, SIDS, or the death of a newborn. Five days earlier, a friend of mine suffered a miscarriage, and last Saturday her and her husband found themselves in what ...
Mark Zuckerberg has never hidden his desire for Facebook to be the place where users share everything. From your favourite sports to the people you admire, your home town to your entire work history, they can all be listed in their special dedicated box on your profile. The newest addition: a built-in option to tell ...
The West is obsessed with babies. We obsess over which celebrity is pregnant, we spend thousands buying the best strollers and toys for our own babies, and last year the movie Babies grossed over $7 million. But what about the babies who die before they are born? Stillbirths are still widely ignored by the medical ...
A new bill waiting for approval holds that a miscarriage is murder, and that mothers who can’t reach full term should face the death penalty. It’s a fact that for every pregnancy there is a chance of miscarriage and these numbers are probably higher than you think. It’s also true that for a lot ...
It’s just been announced that Lily Allen became engaged to her boyfriend Sam Cooper on Christmas day. They had announced that they were having a child earlier this year, and she was planning to give up her music career to be a stay-at-home mom, but sadly she miscarried in November. Luckily they seem to have ...
If a 16-year-old school girl gets pregnant by a 23-year-old professional sports player and later posts naked pictures of his team mates on the internet should she be treated like an abused child or a vengeful calculating adult? The story is a complicated one that has been playing out for a while in Australia between ...
If you’ve ever had a miscarriage, and especially if you’ve had three or more, it might be a good idea to have a heart health check up. German research has found that women with three or more miscarriages had a 500% greater risk of heart attacks in later life. Overall, 25% or more of women ...
Congrats! The British singer is expecting. This is her first child and she’s having it with the love of her life. But is it too early to reveal the good news? She tweeted the good news to her fans, saying: “Thank you all for all the lovely messages, I’m delighted! I really want to start ...
You probably know how we at Morning Quickie like to follow what’s going on in America around abortion law. I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it looks like women in Utah are now going to be charged with murder if their miscarriages are caused by “intentional or knowing” acts. This all ...
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