Are we witnessing
the birth of a new trend?
Not exact matches
Home Delivery — This film documents the lives
of three women in
New York, who for very different reasons have decided to go up against social
trends and take the
birth of their children into their own handsâ $ ¦ and homes.
Perhaps instead
of thinking
of hiring a doula as a
new trend, think
of it as the revitalization
of something that has long been part
of birth.
A 2003 revision to the U.S. Standard Certificate
of Live
Birth includes a
new field to indicate whether a newborn was admitted to the NICU, which allows researchers to study
trends in neonatal intensive care for the majority
of the U.S. newborn population across time.
But these types
of services — along with
new state laws making
birth control available over-the-counter — are signs
of an encouraging and empowering
trend that's making it easier for women to take their healthcare into their own hands.
The annual data report by Advocates for Children
of New Jersey (ACNJ), which tracks
trends in child well - being in Newark, found a decrease in uninsured kids,
births to teens and admissions to the hospital for asthma.
Anti-vaccine tweets also rise in areas where the number
of new births in the past twelve months has
trended up.