Pope John Paul was emphatic in teaching that» [t] he use of the infertile periods for conjugal union can be an abuse if the couple, for unworthy reasons, seeks in this way to avoid having children, thus
lowering the number of births in their family below the morally correct level.This morally correct level must be established by taking into account not only the good of one's own family, and even the state of health and the means of the couple themselves, but also the good of the society to which they belong, of the Church, and even of the whole of mankind.
What's more, TNR often directly reduces a community's pet euthanasia rate by
lowering the number of births and reducing intake into already - crowded shelters.
Not exact matches
In Italy, however, despite facing the same problem
of a declining population — in 2014, only 509,000 live
births were recorded, the
lowest number since the unification
of Italy in 1861, according to the country's statistics agency, ISTAT — the broader economic backdrop is the source
of reluctance.
Look at the sheer
number of people who are the highest rate
of devoute christians in the nation, that would be
lower income blacks and latinos, then look at there astronomically high
birth rate.
Because I see that a
birth with a non nurse midwife is way
lower then both the cnm and MD. you say that the REAL
number of deaths is higher with a DEM but it is shoved into the md category.
The absolute
numbers of women choosing home
birth are so
low, and the total
of anomalies in the total population
of women giving
birth is
low enough that I would expect that we would be thinking in fractions
of one percent for homebirths in which the baby has a previously undiagnosed anomaly which is fatal.
Leaving aside for the moment that this is the same group who crowed over a 20 % increase in homebirths from from 0.56 % to 0.67 %
of US
births, does dismissing the absolute
number of death as
low fully convey what is at stake in the decision to attempt homebirth?
«The sheer magnitude
of numbers in de Jonge et al. — over half a million midwife - attended
low - risk
births, either at home or in the hospital — combined with a true comparison group (
low - risk, women who chose hospital
birth but could have chosen a home
birth; both home and hospital groups, attended by the same group
of midwives) makes this a valuable study (Freeze, 2010, p 8).»
At home I could control the environment —
low, soft lighting; a limited
number of people present and people that I trusted intimately; the opportunity to drink and eat if I needed sustenance for the work at hand; labor strategies that supported a natural
birth like movement, water and meditation.
People are well aware that smoking and pregnancy can lead to a
low birth weight and other health problems in pregnancy, but in the 1990's a significant
number of mothers still smoked.
Moreover, adding the tiny
number of «Apgar 0»
births misattributed to the hospital back into the OOH column has a much larger impact on the OOH
low - Apgar rates than does adding back in the 10 % or so
of successful livebirths.
Large - scale studies reveal a
number of social disadvantages in young fathers» families, such as
low levels
of parental education, large family size, not being raised by both
birth parents and financial hardship.
Then they would have the time to really spend with their patients, address concerns, and take their time with «natural - ish cesareans» Reducing the overall
number of women in the hospital giving
birth (by having a system that supports
low risk, healthy moms birthing their babies at home with trained professionals like CPM's and CNM's) would allow moms who birthed through surgery to stay in the hospital longer and receive the one - on - one medical care that they so very much deserve.
Hinton says the morning after the
birth of her son, her pain worsened, her liver
numbers were 10 times what is considered normal, and her platelets were dangerously
low.
The
number of home
births in the Northern region is currently very
low (0.9 %).
«We were seeing a significant
number of infants born at 37 weeks who looked big and pretty healthy, but who, within a few hours
of birth were developing
low blood sugar, difficulty in breathing or needed antibiotics, necessitating admission to the neonatal intensive care unit,» says Lakshminrusimha.
A
number of factors that are associated with poverty may exert a negative influence on a child's social and emotional development: a lack
of community support, single parenthood,
low parental education, maternal depression, nutrition,
low birth weight and infant health are just some
of the variables.
I also note that they made a lot
of exclusions, including quite a
number of situations that would have been considered «
low risk» for home
birth and that they didn't say anything about how often transfer to the hospital occurred.
At 2.06 / 1000, it is a
low enough
number that I suspect it's not going to sway many (if any) homebirthers into hospital
birth... Because that translates to «99.8 %
of the time my baby won't die!»
There are only 13 home
birth midwives in New York City, a shockingly
low number for the size
of the city, and seven
of these midwives had the backing
of St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan.
For healthy women at
low risk for complications who choose skilled and experienced caregivers and have a good system in place for transfer to a hospital when necessary, a
number of studies show that giving
birth at home is just as safe as giving
birth in a hospital.
A
number of non-invasive, non-pharmocological solutions have been shown scientifically to be as effective as active management in
lowering cesarean section rates: a companion in labor in the hospital (Thornton and Lilford 1994), midwives rather than doctors as the principle
birth attendants in hospital
births of women without complications (Wagner 1994), out -
of - hospital
birth centers (Rooks et al. 1990), and planned home
birth (Wagner 1994).
The exact cause
of SIDS remains unknown, but a
number of risk factors have been identified, such as sleeping on the tummy, second hand smoke, overheating, premature
birth,
low birth weight, and young age
of the mother.
In fact, since August 28th, his office has sent me the governor's latest news via email at least EIGHTEEN TIMES in only three days, a
number which is tragically
low because I deleted the first few messages before I realized I was witness at the
birth of a new literary genre.
Low birth volumes make the economics
of obstetrical units harder still: Rural communities are generally graying, a demographic fact that reduces the
number of births and makes it difficult for hospitals to financially justify having maternity wards at all.
The models predict that the
number of people will be smaller in a richer world, as a larger
number of developed nations result in
lower birth rates.
The study found that the higher the
number of group visits attended, the
lower the rates
of adverse
birth outcomes.
Overall, «the
number of U.S.
births to females aged 10 to 14 was a record
low in 2016, dropping to 2,253 from 8,519 in 2000,» a team from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wrote.
The Atlanta - based CDC found that the
number of births among that age group fell by 38 percent, from 12,901 in 1994 to 7,315 in 2002 — the
lowest level since 1946.
This score takes into account the relatively
low monetary startup costs and a large
number of firm
births in the sector.
And this year, pup weights are the
lowest ever documented and the
number of pup
births are down from 2015.
Now that we humans have destroyed the majority
of salmon spawning habitat, prey
numbers are so
low in some years that killer whales have starved and been unable to give
birth.
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It found that
births attended by «continuous doula support» — compared to those that weren't — had «
lower use
of epidural analgesia, less pitocin, fewer mothers developing fever, fewer forceps or vacuum deliveries, and an extremely
low number of cesarean deliveries,» making doula support a relatively «risk - free intervention.»
The free or
low - cost services offered through the Family Planning Program help reduce unintended pregnancies, allow people to determine the
number and spacing
of their children, and improve
birth outcomes and overall health.
First, all
of the established developmental risk factors — namely, family history (both depression and heart disease),
low birth weight, and high childhood BMI — predicted a greater
number of age - related - disease risks at age 32 years (Table 3, panel 1).
There have also been improvements in other key areas contributing to Aboriginal health, such as a decrease in the
number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women smoking during pregnancy, fewer
low birth weight babies, and a 26 % decline in age - standardised death rates for respiratory disease in NSW, Queensland, WA, SA and NT between 1998 and 2012.
These included characteristics on multiple levels
of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores,
birth weight (normal, moderately
low, or very
low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use
of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household,
number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement
of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.
A subgroup analysis
of high risk women who were unmarried and from
low SES households (40 %) showed that home visits reduced the
number of subsequent
births (mean difference [MD] 0.5, p = 0.02), months that women received welfare (MD 29.9, p = 0.005), reports
of behavioural impairment due to substance abuse (incidence 0.41 v 0.73, p = 0.005), records
of arrests (incidence 0.16 v 0.90, p < 0.001), convictions (incidence 0.13 v 0.69, p < 0.001), and verified reports
of child abuse and neglect involving the mother as perpetrator (incidence 0.11 v 0.53, p < 0.01).
-- This program
of prenatal and early childhood home visitation by nurses can reduce the
number of subsequent pregnancies, the use
of welfare, child abuse and neglect, and criminal behavior on the part
of low - income, unmarried mothers for up to 15 years after the
birth of the first child.
A
number of factors that are associated with poverty may exert a negative influence on a child's social and emotional development: a lack
of community support, single parenthood,
low parental education, maternal depression, nutrition,
low birth weight and infant health are just some
of the variables.
An increasing
number of laws and regulations have made it harder for
low - income Americans to access
birth control.
Cohabiting women gave
birth to somewhat more infants with
low birthweight than did married women, but there was hardly any difference in the
number of preterm infants or deaths.
Baseline covariates included in regression models were site
of enrollment (hospital or office), age
of child at interview, and characteristics
of the mother (age, education, race / ethnicity, employment), father (employment), family (marital status / father in household,
number of siblings, owned home, income), and infant (
low birth weight, source
of payment for care).
Secondary outcomes
of interest include pregnancy and
birth outcomes for Aboriginal mothers and babies in the study cohort, including:
numbers of pregnant Aboriginal women who had their first antenatal visit before 20 weeks gestation;
number of pregnant Aboriginal women who were smoking during the second half
of their pregnancy;
numbers of Aboriginal infants who were born preterm (less than 37 weeks gestation), with a
low birth weight (less than 2500 g), small for gestational age and large for gestational age.
For example, death rates among Aboriginal people from pneumonia have dropped by 40 per cent since 1996, following the roll - out
of pneumococcal vaccinations, The «Strong Babies, Strong Culture» maternal health program has shown that significant reductions in the
number of low birth weight babies can occur within a matter
of years.