Sentences with phrase «meant as a birth mother»

You informed us of what it meant as a birth mother and as a adoptive mother.

You informed us of what it meant as a birth mother and as a adoptive mother.

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Not only would ectogenesis — the process of growing a fetus outside a human body in an artificial womb — save women and babies from those dangers, but just as assisted reproductive means have allowed the rise in fatherless births and mothers by choice, it would also make it much easier for men — gay, trans, hetero, whatever — to have children without needing a surrogate.

Every year since 1983 no fewer than one in five American women has given birth via major abdominal surgery.22, 34 Today one in four or 25 % of women have a cesarean for the birth of their baby.22 The rate for first - time mothers may approach one in three.9 Studies show that the cesarean rate could safely be halved.11 The World Health Organization recommends no more than a 15 % cesarean rate.34 With a million women having cesarean sections every year, this means that 400,000 to 500,000 of them were unnecessary.No evidence supports the idea that cesareans are as safe as vaginal birth for mother or baby.

It is an open adoption, which, as you know, means we know the birth mother — and in this case the birth father — in varying degrees.

This is as close to being sure that vaginal delivery will be uncomplicated as you can get, and does not mean that home birth is safe for first - time mothers or women who've had trouble before.

Vertical transmission means transmission of HIV from the mother to an infant, during pregnancy, birth or breastfeeding, also known as mother to child transmission, or MTCT.

One site I read said that during a water birth because, as you said, the baby is still receiving oxygen from the mother via the umbilical cord this means the baby can have its head out of the birth canal but can wait to take a breath.

That means that first - time mothers are older, broadly speaking, than they were as recently as 2014, when the CDC put the average age of first birth at 26.3.

However, what adoptive mothers, or mothers who have used surrogates may not know is that just because you didn't physically give birth to your baby, does not mean that you have to miss out on breast feeding your baby as well.

Of course, like every other pregnant woman, I'd heard many well - meaning mothers recant their birth stories like old veterans retelling their war stories (and sometimes just as gruesome).

The makeup of your gut microbiome is «hereditary,» meaning that most of the bacteria is passed from mother to baby during a vaginal birth (just as it was passed to the mother from her mother).

This means various things such as not leaving the baby in the birth canal for too long, ensuring that the mother's and baby's vital signs are monitored at all times, and providing adequate care during the whole process.

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).

For instance, if you ever took an Introductory Psychology course, you probably learned how Konrad Lorenz discovered that baby geese would «imprint» on the first moving object they saw shortly after birth, meaning they treated that object as if it were their mother [1].

The beautiful ceremony serves as a reminder to every person in the room that being a birth mother means more than having a biological connection to a child.

It is an open adoption, which, as you know, means we know the birth mother — and in this case the birth father — in varying degrees.