Greene on green.
Dr. Alan Greene, the pediatrician, father of four and online parenting guru, has a perfect surname for launching his latest title: Raising Baby Green: The Earth-Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth and Baby Care (John Wiley & Sons, $16.95). The eco-expert dispenses advice that will be familiar to...

Political commitment to reducing maternal mortality: Tanzania.
The number of women who died during pregnancy, childbirth or after delivery in Tanzania increased rapidly between 1990 and 2000. Lack of resources, poor transport and poverty mean that women who would like to deliver with a skilled attendant often cannot reach a clinic. These problems are exacerbated by...

We do babies! The trials, tribulations, and triumphs of pregnancy and parenting in the academy.
One might say that 2005-2006 was a productive time for us. In addition to the usual scholarship, we experienced another form of production--procreation! Shortly into the spring semester, MK, the department chair, learned that four faculty (of eleven total) were pregnant. Eight of us (see Table 1) recently met...

Diagnostico y tratamiento de la corioamnionitis clinica/ Diagnosis and treatment of clinic chorioamnionitis.
RESUMEN Objetivo: el objetivo del presente trabajo es revisar algunos aspectos del diagnóstico y tratamiento de la corioamnionitis. Materiales y métodos: se realizó una búsqueda bibliográfica en diferentes bases de datos electrónicas para identificar literatura relevante: Pubmed, Ovid, Elsevier, Interscience, Medline, EBSCO, Scopus, SciELO (1980...

How parenthood experiences influence desire for more children in Australia: a qualitative study.
The low-fertility debate in developed countries has focused on the limits to family size posed by the financial costs of raising children, and difficulties combining work and family. Little attention has been given to the physical and socio-psychological experiences of conception, pregnancy, birth and early parenthood, and their potential...

Sex & the teenage girl: the insights of 'Juno'.
There's a classic story of teen pregnancy, told in books, movies, and teen magazines over the past century. It goes something like this: a young girl falls in love for the first time, and, under the spell of first love, she "goes all the way" in the back seat...

HIV-positive mothers need health care in two years post-partum, Kenya.
Many women are diagnosed with HIV during pregnancy and subsequently followed in PMTCT programmes. More attention has focused on making antenatal services adequate to deliver PMTCT, with few resources allocated to long-term follow-up or care of both the woman and child. A study of the incidence and co-factors of...

The MOM Project: delivering maternal health services among internally displaced populations in eastern Burma.
Abstract: Alternative strategies to increase access to reproductive health services among internally displaced populations are urgently needed. In eastern Burma, continuing conflict and lack of functioning health systems render the emphasis on facility-based delivery with skilled attendants unfeasible. Along the Thailand-Burma border, local organisations have implemented an innovative pilot,...

Poor countries losing out on family planning benefits.
Poor countries as well as wealthy donors and aid agencies are losing sight of the value of contraception, family planning and other reproductive health programmes in helping to boost economic growth and reduce the high birth rates that are associated with endemic poverty, poor education and high numbers of...

India's a bad place to be a mum.
Byline: Kounteya Sinha NEW DELHI: India certainly isn't the best place to be a mother. According to a global survey that looked at where mothers fare best and where they face the greatest hardships, India is ranked a dismal 66th among 71 "less developed countries"...