I have a friend who is in her third trimester and planning a homebirth despite having had a near miss
at her first birth (also a homebirth; baby arrived limp and floppy and the «awesome midwife» resuscitated him, and no one acknowledges that he probably wouldn't have been in distress without the very long and post dates labor he'd endured).
More on this episode here, including the video Katie recorded while pregnant with her second baby, sharing her experience with Dr. Mandeville
at her first birth.
Episiotomy, hospital birth and cesarean section: technology gone haywire — what is the sutured tear rate
at first births supposed to be?
We assumed that breastfeeding does not influence the costs of childbearing and discounted future costs by 3 % per year, the social discount rate, to the year when our hypothetical women were aged 25 years, the mean age of U.S. women
at first birth.14 We performed sensitivity analyses with discount rates of 0 % and 5 %.
The mean of the distribution of age
at first birth in the United States is 25 years.
For example, in two longitudinal studies of high - risk mothers («high - risk» due to low - socioeconomic status, single status, young age
at first birth, and a history of abuse), the rate of intergenerational transmission ranged from 45 % (22) to 63 %.
I was pretty healthy, but I had had complications
at the first birth, so it took a while working through fear, and that was one of the biggest excuse I noticed that the prevailing emotion around my first birth was fear and I don't want to live out of fear.
Among women who had a third or fourth degree tear
at first birth, 24.2 % were delivered by elective caesarean section, compared with 1.5 % of women who did not tear
at first birth.
Furthermore, the report found that among women who had a vaginal delivery at second birth, the rate of a severe tear was 7.2 % in women with a tear
at first birth, compared to 1.3 % in women without, a more than five-fold increase in risk.
Factors examined as potential confounders or effect modifiers included age (at breast cancer diagnosis for cases, at time of study enrollment for controls), age
at first birth, number of children, birth of a son, history of breastfeeding, miscarriage, abortion, oral contraceptive use, smoking status, age at menarche and number of cell equivalents tested for detection of FMc.
While age
at first birth has been inching up for some time, «we have seen sharper increases since 2009,» said lead author T.J. Mathews, a demographer at the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).
Adjusted for age, education, family history of breast cancer, history of benign breast disease, parity, age
at first birth, age at menarche, age at menopause, oral contraceptive use, postmenopausal hormone use, BMI, physical activity, smoking, calcium supplement use, and alcohol intake.
When modeling the relationship between these variables and educational attainment, we control for mother's age
at first birth and whether the individual was the firstborn, along with gender and race or ethnicity.
Additional control variables include the child's sex and race / ethnicity, whether the child was the mother's firstborn, and the age of the child's mother
at her first birth.
Reexamining the Association of Maternal Age and Marital Status
at First Birth With Youth Educational Attainment.
A new study indicates that women who marry after the conception of a child but before the birth (the traditional «shotgun» marriage) are more likely to experience divorce in their first marriage than similar women who remain single
at first birth!
Progression to second birth within five years was 0.6 for those with no drop in well - being
at first birth compared with 0.5 for those with a large drop, net of other factors.
It is possible that the factors influencing fertility of these subpopulations are particularly important for future fertility prospects because fertility is being postponed to increasingly higher ages — for example, mean age
at first birth is already above 30 in Germany (OECD 2012)-- and overall educational attainment is increasing.
Indeed, «The Great Crossover,» as the report terms it, is that «for women as a whole, the median age
at first birth (25.7) now falls before the median age at first marriage (26.5).»
Third, we examine whether parental well - being around a first birth is a stronger predictor of parity progression for highly educated parents than for those with less education, and for those with high age
at first birth than for those with a lower age
at first birth, net of other factors.
The secondary search terms were age
at first birth, baby fever, childbearing, childlessness, contraceptive use, cooperative breeding, family planning, father absence, fertility, fertility desires, fertility intentions, fertility motivation, fertility preferences, ideal family size, parental investment, parenthood, parenting, reproduction, reproductive autonomy, reproductive decision - making, reproductive timing, sex ratios, sexual coercion and value of children.
Using experimental methods researchers have found support for: childhood stress (§ 6b) and father absence (§ 6c) lowering preferred age
at first birth and increasing sexual risk taking [45,53]; attachment style (§ 6e) influencing parenthood - related thoughts [60]; cultural norms (§ 6m) discouraging reproduction outside stable unions [12]; women's reproductive autonomy (§ 6i) influencing their fertility preferences [47]; paternity uncertainty (§ 6j) discouraging parental investment by men [55]; high cost of children (§ 6l) encouraging delayed reproduction and lower fertility [36,47]; resource stress and limitation (§ 6o) affecting mating preferences [12,36,40,51]; and mortality risk and salience (§ 6p) encouraging a greater interest in children, earlier reproduction and higher fertility [6,41,42,45,57 — 59].
This is usually measured in terms of acceptance of a first or new pregnancy, preferred family size and / or age
at first birth.
The authors speculate that interest in infants may not indicate earlier intended age
at first birth but rather a future quality - led parental investment strategy, as in the attachment literature (§ 6e).
Griskevicius et al. [45] explored how high mortality risk influences preferred age
at first birth using experimental methods (see § 6h, l, m, p).
The cost of having children, both perceived and real, is positively associated with age
at first birth and inversely related to fertility [31,118,119].
The average age
at first birth in 2006 was 25 compared to the average age
at first birth age of 21 in 1970.
Not exact matches
In a new study published Tuesday in the BMJ, Brazilian researchers reported for the
first time a link between Zika and arthrogryposis, a severe joint condition that's present
at birth.
Date of
birth: 02/14/61
First win: 08/21/78 Total wins
at Woodbine: 869 Number of horses in his Woodbine stable: 80 Most valuable horse in his care: $ 500,000 Biggest purse won: $ 1,000,000 Name of the horse that won it: Turf War
His wife had just given
birth to a baby girl — their
first child — and he knew he wanted to take a few months off from his job as an IT manager to spend some time
at home.
It was the
first time since his own
birth at the hospital in July 2013 that George had been seen
at a public event in Britain.
After giving these two heavenly bodies a thorough check, Schaim sets her sights on the rest of the chart, looking
at which sign rules the
first house of new beginnings, the aspects between the planets, and how the wedding's chart compares to the
birth charts of each person in the couple.
In South Korea, new mothers stay
at home for the
first 100 days after giving
birth.
The multiple
birth rate's precipitous increase since 1980 looks pretty strange
at first, but there's clear science behind it.
After giving
birth to her
first child last fall, Mayer planned to be back
at work in only a week or two.
With the
birth of my
first child recently I began thinking about planting a dividend tree for him
at birth so that he may sit in its shade in a couple decades.
He is with you in times of sickness and death, but he is also with you after the
birth of a new baby,
at a baptism,
at confirmation or
at first communion or
at your wedding.
With
at least a 6 - 8 week variation, we can have Jesus
birth anywhere from Succot to December 25th, but there is also the possibility the the Abia course is the
first of the year which would mean Jesus would have been born anywhere from Passover to July.
The
first death is our own individual one and difficult as that is to face, we
at least know that
birth will follow and others will take our place.
In the introduction, Porphyry suggests that those speculating on the nature of the embryo can be divided into four camps according to their views on the moment of ensoulment: with the creation and release of semen; when the embryo is
first formed (between the
first thirty and forty - two days of pregnancy); when the embryo
first moves (between the
first three and four months of pregnancy); and, finally,
at birth.
This essay was
first presented
at Cambridge University
at a conference celebrating the centenary of Lewis»
birth sponsored by the C. S. Lewis Foundation.
There is also something significant in the name Terah gave his
first - born son; Abram, which means «lofty or exalted father,» or perhaps «the father is exalted,» is in either case an expression of paternal pride
at his
birth.
The government of Ghana, for its part, has determined that its national fertility rate
at the start of the twenty -
first century should be 3.3
births per family; yet Ghana's parents are currently guessed to be having an average of about six children per family.
The miraculous
birth seems designed to meet the second point; the
birth at Bethlehem, the visit of the wise men, and the flight to Egypt, refer to the
first.
sounds more like «corporate brainstorming», but what I was trying to suggest is that it appears that we're witnessing (not intentionally) an evolving understanding of what wd become more central to the narrative and eventually orthodox.That is, if you cdn't believe it, you were out the door.A good example wd be the higher Christology that the fourth gospel reflects and more specifically, the virgin
birth which it (like Mark and Paul) doesn't mention.If the
birth narratives that we're familiar with are absent from the earliest gospel and the most theological gospel that came decades later, and can only be found in the other two gospels that we know used the
first, it
at least suggests a growing and evolving understanding of who Jesus «was» and «is».
Their narrative history portrays it as being
first given
at the foot of Mount Sinai some twelve hundred fifty years before the
birth of Jesus.
This time period in religious history is known as the Second Wave, the
First Wave being the
birth of Pentecostalism
at the turn of the century.
In 1997 he gained worldwide fame as the leader of the team
at the Roslin Institute, a government - sponsored biotechnology research institute in Midlothian, Scotland, which brought to
birth the world's
first cloned mammal, a sheep known as «Dolly.»
My awed elation
at the
birth of my
first child,...
On January 26, 1979,
at 1:31 A.M., I gave
birth to my
first child, a daughter.