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Family of Doctor Who Delivered Obama 'Blown Away'
By not in system - AOL NewsHONOLULU - The family of a Honolulu doctor whose signature appears on President Barack Obama's birth certificate woke up to the news Wednesday that the late obstetrician had delivered Obama. Relatives of Dr. David Sinclair told The Associated Press that they were "blown away" and "honored." So-called "birthers" have questioned Obama's birthplace, espousing theories that he was not born in the U.S., possibly his father's native Kenya, and therefore ineligible to be president. Obama released a short form copy of his birth certificate in 2008. Recently, potential Republican presidential ...
Lesson From Ivory Coast: How to Give Birth During a War
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsTwo weeks ago, Julie Esse, about nine months pregnant, looked as if she could become another tragic footnote in Ivory Coast's bloody conflict. Instead, her story -- with its twist ending -- turned out to be something O. Henry might have written, with a title about two bags of Type O negative blood and details about scary guys brandishing Kalashnikovs and machetes. Esse, 35, a hat and accessories designer, began having what she thought were contractions on April 6, the morning after a mortar blast tore a hole in her family's Abidjan apartment during the siege to capture Laurent Gbagbo, who ...
Laughing Gas Making Comeback as Option for Mothers in Labor
By not in system - AOL NewsCONCORD, N.H. -- Labor pain is nothing to laugh at. Yet. The use of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, during childbirth fell out of favor in the United States decades ago, and just two hospitals - one in San Francisco and one in Seattle - still offer it. But interest in returning the dentist office staple to the delivery room is growing: respected hospitals including Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center plan to start offering it, the federal government is reviewing it, and after a long hiatus, the equipment needed to administer it is expected to hit the market soon. Lori Rowell, due to give ...
Spanish Moms-to-Be Rush to Give Birth Before 2011
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsMADRID -- Spanish moms-to-be have until midnight tonight to give birth if they want to collect a $3,300 check from the government. With an average of just over one child per couple, Spain has one of the lowest birth rates in the world, and an aging population. In an effort to boost numbers, the government introduced child benefit checks in 2007, awarding families with a 2,500-euro check for each new child. But Spain has also been one of the worst-hit countries in the global recession and has had to implement widespread austerity measures to keep the country afloat. Among the public benefits ...
Mother Unfazed After 10-Year-Old Daughter Gives Birth
By J. Richard - AOL News(Nov. 2) -- "Omg! How awful! She is still a baby herself :(" tweeted one woman in response to news that a 10-year-old Romanian girl gave birth last week after being rushed to a hospital in the southern Spanish city of Cadiz. The Twitter user's astonishment was not universal, however. Medical staffers involved in the baby's delivery last week were shocked when the girl's mother treated the birth as a commonplace event, describing it as "something usual in my country," The Associated Press reported. "Another explanation given to us [for the mother's reaction] was that the girl lived with her ...
Childbirth Deaths Are Falling Worldwide, but Not in the U.S.
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyLast week saw the release of a game-changing report on the state of maternal mortality (that is, women dying from complications related to pregnancy). According to the report, published in the medical journal The Lancet (and financed by the Gates Foundation) in the last 20 years, rates of death for pregnant women have, in large part, fallen around the globe. As The New York Times reports, "the study cited a number of reasons for the improvement: lower pregnancy rates in some countries; higher income, which improves nutrition and access to health care; more education for women; and the ...
Mother, Baby 'Die' in Labor but Are Revived
By not in system - AOL NewsDENVER (Dec. 29) - Mike Hermanstorfer was clutching his pregnant wife's hand when her life slipped away in a Colorado hospital on Christmas Eve, and then he cradled his newborn son's limp body seconds after a medical team delivered the baby by cesarean section. Minutes later he saw his son come to life in his arms under the feverish attention of doctors, and soon he learned his wife had inexplicably come back to life. "My legs went out from underneath me," Hermanstorfer said Tuesday. "I had everything in the world taken from me, and in an hour and a half I had everything given to me." ...
D.C. Unsung Hero: Malika Saada-Saar of the Rebecca Project
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyStatus in Washington, D.C., is based on power and access to power, which leads to wealth and media fame. Rarely in this town do those who have power or access to power turn down the ensuing wealth or fame. Malika Saada-Saar is one of those selfless few. Saada-Saar is the founder and executive director of the Rebecca Project for Human Rights, a non-partisan, non-profit which advocates for public policy reform and justice on behalf of women on the margins of society -- the poor, the addicted, the victims of abuse and domestic violence, and especially those in prison. Saada-Saar has effectively ...
No Pain, No Gain? The Value of Epidurals During Childbirth
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyLONDON -- Just as Americans have been busy this week deconstructing Sonia Sotomayor's every word, gesture and reference to "settled law," citizens on this side of the pond have been expressing their views on a very different topic: childbirth. Earlier this week, a prominent doctor/midwife here (and not incidentally, a man) published a paper arguing that pain in childbirth is a good thing and exhorted women to have fewer epidurals during labor. ...
Joe Nathan Has A Full Plate
By Tom Fornelli - AOL NewsI've always admired Joe Nathan. For my money he's the best closer in the game. Arguments can be made for a Francisco Rodriguez, and of course there's Mariano and Trevor Hoffman, but I'll take Nathan. Why? Because the man has lights out stuff, and he can pitch while he's got other things on his mind. Take for instance the first two days of the Nathan's season thus far. Monday night, Joe Nathan saved a baseball game, and later he stayed up with his young son, Cole, who had a fever of 104 degrees. Tuesday night, Nathan saved another baseball game, and later, at about 7 this morning ...
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