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Dutch gynecologists want specialised natal care

gynacologists, Dutch midwives, home births, infant mortality, natal care) ... on Sunday evening, Dutch gynecologists say births should only take place in specialised hospitals. They partly blame the relatively high number of infant fatalities in the Netherlands on the practice of home ...

Islam is the new religion in rebellious Mexican state Chiapas

to see Mashallah! I'm happy to see that Islam has found a home in Mexico. May that community continue ... speaking it is true but only because of natural conversion that being birth rate. The reality is the Islamic world in comparision to the West has an inordinated birth rate that outstrips many other ...

Press Review 13 October 2009

action”. Home births: telling the true story Trouw focuses on a recent medical article calling for women to be better informed about giving birth at home. The paper reveals that the Netherlands is unique in the Western world when it comes to home births: 30% of Dutch mothers give birth at home ...

Serbia’s EU application: is it too soon?

-togethers, presents and blowout dinners as the birth of Jesus Christ. And many Muslims living in Christian ... of the population identify themselves as Christians, but the country's also home to over 3 million Muslims ...

Africa's population set to double by 2050

birth rate in the world. Africa is now home to over one billion people and that number is expected to double by 2050.   The countries of sub-Saharan Africa have the highest birth rate of all, with the average woman giving birth to at least five children. The average in Niger is over seven children, five ...

Press Review Friday 8 January 2010

the pavement outside one of the city's old folks' home in an attempt to encourage other citizens to do the same ... fragrances". Sperm donor mix-up "White woman gives birth to black son, father ... to give birth to a black child. While in this case the error couldn't be clearer, experts say ...

Ghana: Mobile phones cut maternal deaths

to death while waiting in their homes, hoping a health worker would come to help them.” “We have ... complications per 100,000 live births in Ghana, according to the UN. Amensie resident, Juliet Asante, 35 ... of the first child at home because the family could not reach the ambulance or the district’s only midwife ...

Press Review Wednesday 30 December 2009

? Or was it the unique Dutch system which enables women to have home births? Or a combination of all these things. The group established that there is no evidence that home births are to blame. It did find that death rates ... dying just before, during or just after the birth. The revelations that infant mortality rates were ...

Nine African boxers convert to Islam in Pakistan

," Kalambaye told AFP. "I am a Muslim since my birth and know there will be no problems for these boxers back home."     CAR is one of world's poorest countries. Christians form 50 percent ...

The right to reproduce

reasonable choice when you have a partner to raise a child with and you can also give a loving home ... badly, "why not adopt" is certainly a valid question. What would be wrong with giving a home to a child ... . Parenting ISN'T the creation and birthing of a child. It is every single moment afterward. Okay, I ...

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