Article: Birth, The American Way.(Society; Health)(popularity of Cesarean section in child delivery)

Article: A concept analysis of 'normal birth'.
Royal College of Midwives-Evidence-Based Midwifery;  December 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Abstract Aim: 'Normal birth' is a term that has been used for...this paper is to understand what 'normal birth' is and how it applies in the context...Identification of the defining attributes of 'normal birth' is the key objective of this paper...

Article: Lamaze Takes Aim at Skyrocketing Cesarean Rates.
PR Newswire;  July 3, 2003 ;     481 words ......to promote, support and protect normal birth will help shoot down the high rate and encourage women to seek a normal birth. Lamaze is preparing to launch...center, the Lamaze Institute for Normal Birth, in the coming weeks. The new...

Article: Lamaze International Kicks Off Worldwide Campaign to Promote Normal Birth.
PR Newswire;  October 2, 2003 ;     498 words ......off a worldwide campaign to promote normal birth. The organization, founded in 1960...process of birth. The Lamaze Institute for Normal Birth, the centerpiece of this campaign, is...promoting, protecting and supporting normal birth. Featured on the Institute Web site...

Article: An ethnography of experienced midwives caring for women in labour.
Royal College of Midwives-Evidence-Based Midwifery;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......and midwives work together to promote normal birth processes. As midwifery practice can...colleagues. Key words: Ethnography, normal birth, birth environment, support in labour...impossible to perform studies about normal birth in the US, as so few women experience...

Article: Warning over maternity care; Closures `affect chances of a normal birth'.(News)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  January 21, 2003 ;     456 words ......pregnant women's chances of having a normal birth, according to the National Childbirth...therefore on their chance of having a normal birth. A new NCT report says obstetric and...designed to safeguard and encourage normal birth and breast-feeding seem to have taken...

Article: Premature-birth children can achieve like normal ones
The Hindustan Times;  February 9, 2006 ;     323 words ......and defy odds just as those born with normal birth weight, says a study. The study, led...children of premature births and those of normal birth weight. Earlier research suggested premature...2lbs (0.5 to 1 kg) and 145 comparable normal birth weight children until they were in ...

Article: Just 44% of women have `normal' births.(News)
The Independent (London, England);  July 3, 2002 ;     378 words ......decade to a record low of 44 per cent. A normal birth is defined as one which does not involve...Health data. They include figures of normal birth rates for individual maternity units...figures disclosed a worrying trend. Normal birth rates vary enormously. For example...

Article: Just 44% of women have `normal' births
The Independent - London;  July 3, 2002 ;     379 words ......decade to a record low of 44 per cent. A normal birth is defined as one which does not involve...Health data. They include figures of normal birth rates for individual maternity units...figures disclosed a worrying trend. "Normal birth rates vary enormously. For example...

Article: Obesity tied to worsening kidney function in kids.(Obesity)(Brief article)(Clinical report)
Family Practice News;  January 15, 2007 ;     288 words ......than 1,200 grams) and 24 children of normal birth weight (more than 2,500 grams). Obesity...also included 20 nonobese children of normal birth weight as clinical controls. All of...glomerulosclerosis (FSGS). Of the children in the normal birth weight, obese group, 16 were biopsied...

Article: The epistemological foundation of midwife-led care that facilitates normal birth.
Royal College of Midwives-Evidence-Based Midwifery;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Understanding how midwifery knowledge supports normal birth is critical, as positivism and the medical...midwives use their knowledge to support normal birth, in a midwifery-led environment. Method...knowledge, which supports and protects normal birth. It highlights a need to use ...

Article: PH-EWE!(News)
The Mirror (London, England);  March 6, 2003 ;     17 words ...A SHEEP gave birth to a lamb weighing 21lb at a north Devon farm yesterday. The normal birth weight is around 8lb.

Article: The role of midwife-complementary therapists: data from in-depth telephone interviews.(Survey)
Royal College of Midwives-Evidence-Based Midwifery;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......having an important role in supporting normal birth and reducing medical intervention. Aim...contribution that CTs might make to supporting normal birth. Method. Semi-structured telephone interviews...midwives' belief in CTs as supporting normal birth was identified as a core theme. ...

Article: Normal childbirth.(Shorts)
Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine;  October 1, 2007 ;     584 words ......birth. Six care practices that support normal birth, according to the Lamaze Institute for Normal Birth, are as follows: labor begins on its...steal a woman's freedom to choose a normal birth. Childbirth Connection and Lamaze International...

Article: Smaller babies `worseat exams'.(News)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  March 25, 2003 ;     471 words ......of very low birth weight and 1. ..of normal birth weight who attended the same schools...less at birth, the other half were of a normal birth weight of 5.51 lbs to 7.72 lbs (2.5...GCSEexam subject. The researchers found the normal birth weight group scored significantly more...