Maybe Pregnant mammas CAN eat Canned Fish!

Powerful New Salvo In The Fish Wars: "This important study, set for publication next week in the American Journal of Epidemiology, is just the latest sign that activist groups like Oceana, the Environmental Working Group, and the Sea Turtle Restoration Project are dead wrong about the supposed health threat from trace levels of mercury in fish.
The research team, led by Harvard’s Dr. Emily Oken, wrote:

“The 28 mothers (8 percent) who reported eating canned tuna at least twice weekly had children with higher scores … compared with the 130 mothers (38 percent) who reported never eating tuna fish” while pregnant."

“We next examined maternal fish intake and mercury levels simultaneously … Children whose mothers consumed more than two weekly fish servings and whose mercury levels were in the top decile also had somewhat higher scores, whereas children of mothers who consumed up to two weekly servings of fish and had mercury levels in the top decile had somewhat lower scores.” [emphasis added]

Translation: Among mothers with the highest mercury levels, those who ate the most fish (more than two servings per week) had children who performed above average on cognitive tests. High-mercury moms who ate less fish were the ones whose kids appear to be at a disadvantage. The key appears to be tuna. The most maligned fish in the sea, it turns out, is actually a comparatively low-mercury choice. We found as much in our 2006 fish-testing reports (see page 7 here, and page 10 here).

“Science doesn’t lie. Pregnant women who frequently eat canned tuna are having brainier children than those who don’t. Green groups have been demonizing tuna for years. Now it looks like they’ve been causing the very harm they sought to prevent.”

Birth Trauma Myths

Joyous Birth - The Australian Homebirth Network:

MYTH 4: Just concentrate on your healthy baby, and get over it, can also be: You’ll forget all about it as soon as you see your baby.

FACT: If you are raped, being given a present at the end of it doesn’t wipe out the rape. It may give you very ambivalent feelings about the gift but it doesn’t somehow cure you of the trauma and to suggest that women are so facile and stupid is offensive indeed. What this usually means is that the person speaking is uncomfortable with the pain they see visible in the woman and wish she would stop making them feel that way.

Facing off a Butcher | The Daily Telegraph

Facing off a Butcher | The Daily Telegraph: "RALLIES are being held around Australia today by women fighting for justice against former doctor Graeme Reeves, dubbed the Butcher of Bega.

Women, including victims, will protest outside Parliament House over the health system's inaction on Reeves, who allegedly mutilated and sexually abused hundreds.

And more nurses who worked with the doctor are breaking their silence."

Women have taken their rage to Facebook, setting up a club site called "Hang the Butcher of Bega".

The site has spread the message about today's rallies, organised by the Joyous Birth Network. It has 86 members.

The Many Faces of MRSA: Community-Acquired Infection Knows No Bounds

Annals of Emergency Medicine:

A Breeding Ground?

Jevons’ finding ushered in several decades in which methicillin-resistant staph became a feared nosocomial pathogen. It sparked ferocious outbreaks in critical care units: In 1980, in just one example, a burn patient transferred to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle transmitted MRSA to 34 other patients in 15 months despite the staff’s best efforts at infection control, and 17 of the patients died.3 That outbreak also signaled how formidably resistant the hospital strain of staph would become: the original patient’s isolate was resistant to quinolones, clindamycin, erythromycin, trimethoprim, and gentamicin in addition to the beta-lactams.

The new prevalence of CA-MRSA poses additional challenges for ED staff. Hospital-acquired-MRSA became endemic in hospitals through simple failures in infection control; several studies in the past decade have demonstrated that EDs’ record of hand-washing is poor.34, 35, 36 The risks of poor hygiene in an ED are likely to be exacerbated not only by ED stress and crowding, but also by MRSA’s known ability to remain viable on hospital surfaces—in one study, for more than 12 days.37

And if EDs become amplifiers of CA-MRSA, it may not only be patients who are at risk. Last year, a Garland, TX firefighter and emergency medical technician died of invasive MRSA,38 and a Troy, NY firefighter/EMT was temporarily disabled by extensive soft tissue infection.39 In 2005, this journal carried a report of an emergency medicine resident with recurrent MRSA infection that might have been occupationally acquired.40

CA-MRSA “is here to stay,” Moran said, who hopes to repeat the EmergencyID Net study this year to see whether prevalence continues to increase or has plateaued. “It has become the new normal. There is something about these strains that gives them a survival advantage, and I don’t think we will see that go away.”

What happens when an infant gets a staph infection in the hospital that is resistant to drugs?

Women in labour turned away by maternity units | Society | The Guardian

Women in labour turned away by maternity units | Society | The Guardian: "Women in labour are being refused entry to overstretched maternity units and told to give birth elsewhere, NHS hospitals admitted yesterday in response to an application under the Freedom of Information Act. They disclosed that maternity wards in almost 10% of trusts closed their doors to new admissions on at least 10 days last year. One trust in North Yorkshire closed 39 times between October and January because it did not have enough staff to provide a safe service.

The NHS encourages mothers planning a hospital delivery to make a booking early in pregnancy and get to know about the facilities during regular check-ups with a midwife. Most mothers discuss a birth plan with a consultant obstetrician, including choice of pain relief.

These preparations are made on the assumption that the hospital will have enough capacity to deal with unpredictable peaks in demand when women go into labour. But information disclosed to the Conservative party under the FoI Act showed 42% of trusts could not get through last year without turning women away at least once."

The Dangers of Prenatal Ultrasound

The Dangers of Prenatal Ultrasound

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VBAC Facts � Why Homebirth/ HBAC?

SARAH -Wife of Abraham

Ultimate Example of True Femininity 1 Peter 3:1-6

The ultimate example of true femininity.

1Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

2While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

3Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;

4But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

5For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

6Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

"Don't you know what causes children?"

Biblical Reasons for Having Babies

A Birth Control Guide for Engaged and Newlywed Couples

Everything A Christian Should Know About Birth Control Devices

The History of Midwifery and Childbirth - A Time Line

The History of Midwifery and Childbirth - A Time Line

The Family: Children: Heritage of the Lord

The Family: Children: Heritage of the Lord

Bearing Children

Bearing Children:

"'Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD:
and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them:
they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.'
(Psalm 127:3-5)."

U.S. is 28th in the World in Infant Mortality

U.S. is 28th in the World in Infant Mortality

Amazon.com: THE EMPTY CRADLE: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity And What to Do About It: Phillip Longman: Books

Amazon.com: THE EMPTY CRADLE: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity And What to Do About It: Phillip Longman: Books

American Life League -Underpopulation

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