Traditional birth attendants provide the majority of care to women in Sierra Leone. But despite the fact that the country has less than 80 professional midwives and only six obstetricians the government in Sierra Leone has banned them from practising their craft. The argument goes that because traditional birth attendants do not have knowledge of ...
Women and men, it seems, are in the same boat on the sea of fertility. As we age, the ride to parenthood gets rockier. We most often talk about women’s bodies being ticking time bombs, but just as a woman’s “fecundity and fertility starts to decline precipitously after 32, a man’s semen quality and fertility also ...
Doctors are being told to conceal the sex of the fetus from pregnant women in case they are from cultures who practice female infanticide. An editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal says that many Asian women in Canada come from cultures where they prefer baby boys, and if these women know the sex of ...
For superstars like Beyoncé, hospitals are transformed into five-star hotels. Blue Ivy Carter, born Saturday night at the Lenox Hill Hospital on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, came into the world in style. Beyoncé and Jay-Z reportedly rented an entire floor of the Lenox Hospital, took over the security and forced staff to turn in their ...
How late is too late? When it comes to inducing labour this question is far from easy. Different countries have different rules in health services and women regularly come under pressure to fit in with them. But just as not every woman will get morning sickness or an aversion to coffee not every woman bakes ...
A priest with pixellated face and the Virgin Mary staring aghast at a positive pregnancy test. Is this art imitating life, or is it offensive sensationalism? Banksy’s Cardinal Sin sits amongst 17th Century religious art in Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery. His face is sawn off and replaced with small, square bathroom tiles, creating a pixellated ...
You’ll be amazed to learn that people do silly things when drunk. Like having sex sans condom. But don’t take my word and everyone else’s for it. Researchers at Canada’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health found that study participants who had consumed alcohol were more likely to say they’d have condomless sex than sober ...
A woman who was fired an hour after revealing she was pregnant to her boss has been told that her pregnancy was not a factor in her losing her job. The case is currently being heard by the Human Rights Commission in Canada. Her bosses say that she was already earmarked for dismissal because they ...
A woman in PEI is hoping to change hospital rules to allow women the right to eat their placenta. Currently the local hospital does not let women take their placenta home with them. But a business woman, Amber Morrissey, hopes to help women turn their placenta into pills. Other mammals eat their placenta, and, in ...
We all hate condoms, right? Well instead of thinking of them as a mood killer, think of them as something that can free you up to enjoy sex without any worries of pregnancy or (most) STIs. Having those worries off your mind will allow you to have awesome care-free sex that rocks your world.
Usually getting fired is a bad thing. But, somehow, this woman is happy about it. Can you imagine...
My attention was drawn this week to an article on the resurgence of the market for men’s underwear. It...
Meh, the night bus. It isn’t ideal, but with the price of trains nowadays and the hellish standing-up-from-Edinburgh-to-Manchester situation...
Ladies, learn to know the signs of ovulation! So many women have no idea and so many headaches and...
Remember that time when I was with my friends and I saw you playing pool with your friends and...
Dear Madame X, My girl is hot but every single time we get into a fight she is all...
My first encounter with Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto’s 1988 novel (translated into English in 1993 by Megan Backus) was in...
A slut is a person of any gender who has the courage to lead life according to the radical...
