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Shannon Ellis, 38-year-old woman from Indianapolis, Indiana,has been sentenced to eight years in prison for engaging in sex with a 14-year-old boy.
The sexual relationship between the young boy and the adult woman occurred in 2007 and 2008 and were exposed after Ellis became pregnant. Ellis'husband had been vasectomized and the DNA test confirmed that the boy was the father of the girl born April 2008.
http://femalesexoffenders.com/fso/index.php/the-news/260-shannon-ellisShannon Ellis, 38-year-old woman from Indianapolis, Indiana,has been sentenced to... more
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Following three decades of increases, in 2008 the nation saw the first two-year decline in the preterm birth rate on the 2010 March of Dimes Premature Birth Report Card. Overall, the United States received a “D” on the report card.Following three decades of increases, in 2008 the nation saw the first two-year... more
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Mothers who puff a pack a day or more while pregnant run upto 30% higher risk of having kids who become criminal offenders, according to a study which was published on Tuesday. http://www.indiareport.com/India-usa-uk-news/toi/Health/43229Mothers who puff a pack a day or more while pregnant run upto 30% higher risk of... more
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Written by Brenda Zulu for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.
This is the seventh in a series of articles from Keeping Our Promise: Addressing Unsafe Abortion in Africa this week. The conference has brought together more than 250 health providers, advocates, policy makers and youth participants for a discussion of how to reduce the impact of unsafe abortion in Africa.
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One in 13 women in the Democratic Republic of Congo dies in pregnancy or childbirth—that’s one death every half hour of every day.
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Health problems related to pregnancy and childbirth remain the leading cause of ill health and death for women of childbearing age worldwide. But the impact is even greater in countries in the throes of a humanitarian emergency or crisis.
Addressing unsafe abortion in emergency situations at the ‘Keeping Our Promise’ conference in Accra last week, Dr Wilma Doedens of the Humanitarian Response Branch in UNFPA (the United Nations Population Fund) noted that, in the unstable environment created by a humanitarian crisis, women are at risk for an unwanted pregnancies, whether as a result of a breakdown in the health system (making family planning services unavailable), or as a result of rape that has become a consistent weapon against communities in eastern Congo.
In this context, pregnancy is particularly dangerous.
“Malnutrition and epidemics increase risks of pregnancy complications and often the lack of access to emergency obstetric care increases risk of maternal death,”said Dr Doedens.
Testimonies of women survivors of war played at the conference starkly illustrated the impact of rape and a lack of reproductive health care in the Congo.
One woman simply called Cecily explained:
“We have had war for many years and nothing has changed. We have nothing now, I have six children. It is hard to feed everyone. We have one meal per day and only my sons go to school since I do not have enough money to take the girls as well. I have heard that women can stop getting pregnant but I don’t know how and no one has told me how. I wish I could stop. I don’t want to be pregnant anymore.”
In an interview, Dr Boubacar Toure, Reproductive Health Advisor to the International Rescue Committee in Congo, outlined challenges to quality reproductive and post-rape health care in Congo.
He said that in Congo, the average age of women at their first pregnancy was 15 years, the age at which many girls were married. Read more http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2010/11/15/abortion-emergency-situations-story-democratic-republic-congoWritten by Brenda Zulu for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community... more
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Australian fertility experts have developed a technology to magnify human sperm by 7300 times its normal size in a bid to help childless couples to conceive. Fertility specialists in Australia were able to magnify human sperm to 15 centimetres long with heads as big as 10¢ pieces, about 18 times larger than they had ever seen giving them clearest picture yet of which sperm are most capable of fertilisation, according to newspaper' The Age'. http://www.indiareport.com/India-usa-uk-news/latest-news/933549/International/2/20/2Australian fertility experts have developed a technology to magnify human sperm by... more
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Shawanna Lumsey, who in 2003 was serving time while pregnant in an Arkansas prison for credit card fraud, received minimal pre-natal care during her incarceration. Later she was shackled to a hospital bedpost while giving birth to a 9 pound, 7 ounce baby.
"We are human beings, even when we are in prison," Lumsey was quoted in an October report on the mistreatment of pregnant women in prison produced by two Washington-based groups, the National Women's Law Center and the Rebecca Project for Human Rights. "Prisoners still have human rights. And shackling takes those basic human rights away."
Yesterday, advocates for incarcerated mothers and pregnant women joined an online forum to discuss the study, which gave 36 states failing grades for using various forms of shackling on pregnant women during transportation, labor and delivery and postpartum recuperation.
Read the full story: http://www.womensenews.org/story/incarceration/101108/shackling-pregnant-women-spurs-prison-reform-pushShawanna Lumsey, who in 2003 was serving time while pregnant in an Arkansas prison for... more
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Prolonged use of paracetamol and other painkillers during pregnancy may pose a health risk to baby boys, warn experts.
link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11711243Prolonged use of paracetamol and other painkillers during pregnancy may pose a health... more
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A 10-year-old girl from Romania has given birth in southern Spain, officials in the region have said.
The girl gave birth to a daughter last week in the city of Jerez de la Frontera, said Andalucia's social affairs minister Micaela Navarro.
Officials are deciding whether the mother and her family can keep custody, Ms Navarro said.
The father of the baby is also believed to be a minor, aged 13, who is still in Romania, Spanish media have said.
I think at 13 there is a sufficient age difference to call the father a child abuser, yes 13 is young, but what person at that age has sex with a 9 year old, he should be kept away from young girls, and the parents of both the father and mother should be locked up for letting this happen, this story makes me sick.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11684854A 10-year-old girl from Romania has given birth in southern Spain, officials in the... more
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WASHINGTON — Motherhood may actually cause the brain to grow, not turn it into mush, as some have claimed. Exploratory research published by the American Psychological Association found that the brains of new mothers bulked up in areas linked to motivation and behavior, and that mothers who gushed the most about their babies showed the greatest growth in key parts of the mid-brain.
Led by neuroscientist Pilyoung Kim, PhD, now with the National Institute of Mental Health, the authors speculated that hormonal changes right after birth, including increases in estrogen, oxytocin and prolactin, may help make mothers’ brains susceptible to reshaping in response to the baby. Their findings were published in the October issue of Behavioral Neuroscience.
The motivation to take care of a baby, and the hallmark traits of motherhood, might be less of an instinctive response and more of a result of active brain building, neuroscientists Craig Kinsley, PhD, and Elizabeth Meyer, PhD, wrote in a special commentary in the same journal issue.
The researchers performed baseline and follow-up high-resolution magnetic-resonance imaging on the brains of 19 women who gave birth at Yale-New Haven Hospital, 10 to boys and nine to girls. A comparison of images taken two to four weeks and three to four months after the women gave birth showed that gray matter volume increased by a small but significant amount in various parts of the brain. In adults, gray matter volume doesn’t ordinarily change over a few months without significant learning, brain injury or illness, or major environmental change.
The areas affected support maternal motivation (hypothalamus), reward and emotion processing (substantia nigra and amygdala), sensory integration (parietal lobe), and reasoning and judgment (prefrontal cortex).
In particular, the mothers who most enthusiastically rated their babies as special, beautiful, ideal, perfect and so on were significantly more likely to develop bigger mid-brains than the less awestruck mothers in key areas linked to maternal motivation, rewards and the regulation of emotions.
The mothers averaged just over 33 years in age and 18 years of school. All were breastfeeding, nearly half had other children and none had serious postpartum depression.
Although these early findings require replication with a larger and more representative sample, they raise intriguing questions about the interaction between mother and child (or parent and child, since fathers are also the focus of study). The intense sensory-tactile stimulation of a baby may trigger the adult brain to grow in key areas, allowing mothers, in this case, to “orchestrate a new and increased repertoire of complex interactive behaviors with infants,” the authors wrote. Expansion in the brain’s “motivation” area in particular could lead to more nurturing, which would help babies survive and thrive physically, emotionally and cognitively.
Further study using adoptive mothers could help “tease out effects of postpartum hormones versus mother-infant interactions,” said Kim, and help resolve the question of whether the brain changes behavior or behavior changes the brain – or both.
The authors said that postpartum depression may involve reductions in the same brain areas that grew in mothers who were not depressed. “The abnormal changes may be associated with difficulties in learning the rewarding value of infant stimuli and in regulating emotions during the postpartum period,” they said. Further study is expected to clarify what happens in the brains of mothers at risk, which may lead to improved interventions.
In their “Theoretical Comment,” Kinsley and Meyer, of the University of Richmond, connected this research on human mothers to similar basic research findings in laboratory animals. All the scientists agreed that further research may show whether increased brain volumes are due to growth in nerve cells themselves, longer and more complex connections (dendrites and dendritic spines) between them, or bushier branching in nerve-cell networks.
http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2010/10/mommy-brain.aspxWASHINGTON — Motherhood may actually cause the brain to grow, not turn it into... more
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Planning for a baby can take a lot out of a new mom, whether she’s done the dance before or it’s her first time. From baby proofing to revving up your schedule to fit around a newborn, there’s plenty of information on the web to help you prepare for your new arrival.
link: http://rntomsnonline.com/50-best-blogs-for-baby-planningPlanning for a baby can take a lot out of a new mom, whether she’s done the... more
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Debra Ayla (Tapia), 38-year-old married mother-of-four from Santa Ana, California, has pleaded guilty to engaging in a sexwith a 15-year-old neighbor which resulted in a pregnancy and birth of child.
Ayala pleaded guilty to a felony lewd act with a child 14 or 15 years old, oral copulation with someone younger than 16, and unlawful sexual intercourse, according to court records. Under the terms of the plea deal with prosecutors, three of the same counts were dismissed.
Ayala was married with three children when she had the affair with the boy, who lived nearby. Ayala had been friends with the boy’s family and started inviting the victim to her house late at night in early 2009. Ayala was accused of having sex with the boy about two times a week between February and November 2009, according to Mestman. She gave birth to the boy’s daughter Nov. 21, 2009.
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http://naughtyneighbors.zoeoez.com/2010/10/19/debra-ayla-tapia-santa-ana-california-2/Debra Ayla (Tapia), 38-year-old married mother-of-four from Santa Ana, California, has... more
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The Hospital sources have issued a press release on Celine Dion hospitalized that “Ms. Celine Dion has been admitted to St. Mary’s Medical CenterThe Hospital sources have issued a press release on Celine Dion hospitalized that... more
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In my day, Just Say No was Just Don't Say Anything. Moms and Dads, more often than not, didn't have "the talk" because of their own shocking lack of knowledge or because they were too embarrassed. Of course, that left teens to their own sexual education.In my day, Just Say No was Just Don't Say Anything. Moms and Dads, more often... more
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Congresswoman Lois Capps of California couldn't have been less surprised when the recent U.N. development goals review conference spotlighted faltering financial commitments to maternal health in the developing world.
Already aware of the problem, Capps this spring introduced a bill prodding the United States to make good on its commitment to Millennium Development Goal No. 5, which seeks to reduce maternal deaths by 2015 by three-quarters from 1990 levels. Called the Improvements in Global Maternal and Newborn Health Outcomes While Maximizing Successes Act, it's better known as the Global Moms Act.
Read the rest: http://www.womensenews.org/story/reproductive-health/101006/us-health-bills-show-c-sections-cut-two-waysCongresswoman Lois Capps of California couldn't have been less surprised when the... more
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Drinking one or two units of alcohol a week during pregnancy does not raise the risk of developmental problems in the child, a study has suggested.
link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11476456Drinking one or two units of alcohol a week during pregnancy does not raise the risk... more
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The U.N. this week will be considering plans to save 16 million women's lives by 2015, as part of a major meeting focused on poverty- reducing goals. The big billion dollar question is not how it can be done but whether the U.N. member states will provide enough funding.
"It's a wonderful plan, but if the funding doesn't show up and it isn't implemented, then it doesn't help much," said Mary Anne Mercer, director of the Timor-Leste program for Health Alliance International, a Seattle-based international public health organization.
The effort to put women's health back on the policy map comes days after Michelle Bachelet, the 58-year-old former president of Chile, was appointed head of the United Nations' new agency uniting four existing women and gender offices. The entity is called U.N. Women and has an unprecedented $500 million annual budget, more than double the existing resources available for all four agencies.
The special interest placed on women's health and gender equality couldn't come soon enough.
Millennium Development Goal No. 5--to reduce the maternal mortality ratio by two-thirds in 2015 from 1990 global-average levels of 400 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births--is lagging the most out of eight major initiatives on poverty, health and equality adopted by the U.N. 10 years ago (at the start of the new millennium, hence their name.)
More news at Women's eNews http://womensenews.org/story/international-policyunited-nations/100917/un-ask-169-billion-maternal-health-questionThe U.N. this week will be considering plans to save 16 million women's lives by... more
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