What You Don't Know About Drinking and Pregnancy: Four Mothers Tell Their Stories

What you don't know about drinking and pregnancy: Four mothers tell their stories
Alcohol is more likely to cause brain damage and lifelong behavior problems in unborn children than either crack cocaine or heroin, which can also harm the baby, according to The Institute of Medicine. "The legal drug is worse than the illicit drugs in …
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Stoking Fire: 'Laboring,' A Midwife's Tale
As far as I knew, if you wanted to help women through pregnancy, and then deliver their babies, you had to go to nursing school, so that's what I did.” “I'm a city girl,” Cohen laughs, which is why she has … Although she screamed that she was not …
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How to Take Action on This Year's Oscar-Movie Issues
In the epidemic's early years, it took a homophobic electrician from Texas an AIDS diagnosis to let go of his prejudice against the gay community. Homophobia continues today, courtesy of outdated policies such as the scientifically unsound FDA ban on …
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Lawyers seek dismissal in stillborn-death case
The body of 48-year-old Tracy Eskine was found early Saturday in the BaratariaMore >>. The Jefferson Parish … A Mississippi woman who gave birth to a stillborn child at age 16 is challenging a "depraved heart murder" charge that was filed against her …
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