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NEWS THIS WEEK 19 MARCH 2012

News mostly appears to be grim. I love reading news, staying current but sometimes I get jaded. Especially articles that announce results of research studies. The thing is, I often wonder about these results. Just how much information is revealed to the media? Here are three news stories from this week. C-SECTION BABIES AT HIGHER [...]

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NEWS THIS WEEK 17 OCTOBER 2011

My weekly news wrap is back after a few weeks hiatus and the first story is one I heard this morning. New drugs offer hope of life to 150-plus Now I don’t usually get ranty. I get opinionated, I question, I like to stretch my position on topics but today I’m going to get ranty; [...]

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THE GENDER BALANCE PLOT THICKENS….

A few weeks ago I blogged about a Melbourne woman, who wanted a girl so desperately, she was willing to travel to Thailand to undergo a sex selection IVF procedure. My good friend Lachy and I were playing hypotheticals in the comments section of that post. Simply, Lachy has reservations of legalizing gender selection using [...]

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HOME BIRTH VS HOSPITAL BIRTH: IT’S ALL ABOUT HAVING A BABY

Last week Danni Minogue gave birth to her first child.  Her planned home-birth went awry and Ms Minogue was transferred to a hospital to deliver.  The end result, happy healthy mother and child. But the controversy sparked up again the safety of home-births.  See this article in The Punch. From what I have read this [...]

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A CHILD ARRIVED JUST THE OTHER DAY

A child arrived just the other day, came into the world in the usual way…. Harry Chapin, Cats in the Cradle Three weeks ago I gave birth to my fourth child, Lucas. And he pretty much came into the world in the usual way. As an outsider, the labour and delivery was textbook and fell [...]

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