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Jennie Chancey | April 9, 2012
From an excellent piece in The Atlantic: If you look at scientific literature, you find over and over again that many interventions increase risk to mother and child instead of decreasing it. When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with [...]
Jennie Chancey | April 9, 2012
These stats continue to pile up: [R]esearch has gone and found another lovely side effect of the birth control shot: A 50 percent higher risk of breast cancer. Women who used the shot of synthetic hormones for at least a year had double the risk of getting breast cancer, according to the study published in [...]
Jennie Chancey | January 15, 2012
This is just amazing and shows once again how children can be literal, physical blessings to their mothers for a lifetime: Science has been studying the phenomena of fetal cell microchimerism for more than 30 years, after researchers at Stanford University were shocked in 1979 to discover a pregnant mother’s blood containing cells with Y [...]
Jennie Chancey | December 11, 2011
The health benefits of child-bearing continue to pile up: Kathy Ostrowski reports in the Kansans for Life blog on a recent National Public Radio Morning Edition program featuring Science editor Robert Krulwich and his explosive report about “fetomaternal microchimerism.” According to Krulwich there is increasing evidence that “when a woman has a baby, she gets [...]
Jennie Chancey | December 6, 2011
From the Telegraph online: Having four or more babies may be good for you, research has shown, as mothers of large families were less likely to die of a stroke…. Research involving 1300 women in California suggested those who had four or more children were one third less likely to due from cardiovascular disease. The [...]
Jennie Chancey | April 5, 2010
The wisdom of the old paths comes back to remind us how much we have to re-learn: If most new moms would breastfeed their babies for the first six months of life, it would save nearly 1,000 lives and billions of dollars each year, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics…. [...]
