October 31, 2011
Controversy has erupted over women’s bodies in Britain this week. Pregnant women’s bodies, in particular. In other words, a very personal time in a woman’s life, yet one that causes all manner of people to come out of the woodwork with advice, opinions and unsolicited touching of the bump. A new report by the National ...
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October 31, 2011
Women have been giving birth the same way since they were Neanderthals: through good-old natural birth. However, a recent change by the National Health Service (NHS) could make these old-fashioned vaginal births obsolete. The NHS plans to give all women the right to choose caesarean sections even if they are not medically necessary. At first ...
August 30, 2010
Doctors in Sweden have developed a test that can predict which women will need a cesarean section and which won’t.