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The vaginal microbiome may be an overlooked reservoir of antibiotic resistance

Researchers mapped nearly 2,000 vaginal metagenomes to investigate how microbial community states, resistance genes, and pregnancy outcomes inter…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #antibiotic #AntibioticResistance #AntimicrobialResistance #AU #Australia #Bacterial #Biofilms #Gene #Genes #Genetic #Labor #Lactobacillus #Microbiome #pregnancy #research #Tetracycline #Vaginal #VaginalMicrobiome
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/884074/

The vaginal microbiome may be an overlooked reservoir of antibiotic resistance

Researchers mapped nearly 2,000 vaginal metagenomes to investigate how microbial community states, resistance genes, and pregnancy outcomes inter…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #antibiotic #AntibioticResistance #AntimicrobialResistance #AU #Australia #Bacterial #Biofilms #Gene #Genes #Genetic #Labor #Lactobacillus #Microbiome #pregnancy #research #Tetracycline #Vaginal #VaginalMicrobiome
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/884074/

Families found complicit will lose access to all state welfare schemes. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/60-000-births-by-underage-mothers-in-just-6-months-west-bengal-govt-steps-up-child-marriage-hunt-cxczp1u2?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #underage #pregnancy #WestBengal #childmarriage

Families found complicit will lose access to all state welfare schemes. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/60-000-births-by-underage-mothers-in-just-6-months-west-bengal-govt-steps-up-child-marriage-hunt-cxczp1u2?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #underage #pregnancy #WestBengal #childmarriage

Families found complicit will lose access to all state welfare schemes. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/60-000-births-by-underage-mothers-in-just-6-months-west-bengal-govt-steps-up-child-marriage-hunt-cxczp1u2?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #underage #pregnancy #WestBengal #childmarriage

Families found complicit will lose access to all state welfare schemes. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/60-000-births-by-underage-mothers-in-just-6-months-west-bengal-govt-steps-up-child-marriage-hunt-cxczp1u2?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #underage #pregnancy #WestBengal #childmarriage

Former Strictly star Joanne Clifton and actor fiance AJ reveal their baby's gender

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/former-strictly-star-joanne-clifton-37635817

Happy Labor Day make sure to go into labor today #pregnancy #LaborDay

Happy Labor Day make sure to go into labor today #pregnancy #LaborDay

Happy Labor Day make sure to go into labor today #pregnancy #LaborDay

Happy Labor Day make sure to go into labor today #pregnancy #LaborDay

Bariatric surgery restores menstrual cycles and reduces polycystic ovaries in obese women

Metabolic bariatric surgery improves menstrual cycle frequency and symptoms of polycystic ovaries in women living with obesity, a…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #AU #Australia #BariatricSurgery #fertility #Frequency #menstrualcycle #Obesity #Ovaries #pregnancy #reproductivehealth #research #Surgery #WeightLoss #WeightLossSurgery
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/883634/

Bariatric surgery restores menstrual cycles and reduces polycystic ovaries in obese women

Metabolic bariatric surgery improves menstrual cycle frequency and symptoms of polycystic ovaries in women living with obesity, a…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #AU #Australia #BariatricSurgery #fertility #Frequency #menstrualcycle #Obesity #Ovaries #pregnancy #reproductivehealth #research #Surgery #WeightLoss #WeightLossSurgery
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/883634/

What four pregnancy eating patterns revealed about mothers and newborns

Distinct eating patterns emerged among pregnant women, alongside striking differences in maternal health and subtler signals in how…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #AU #Australia #BirthWeight #Bread #Cancer #CardiovascularDisease #diabetes #diet #food #Fruit #maternalhealth #MediterraneanDiet #newborn #Nutrition #Obesity #pregnancy #Prenatal #Respiratory #RespiratoryDisease #Vegetables
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/882778/

What four pregnancy eating patterns revealed about mothers and newborns

Distinct eating patterns emerged among pregnant women, alongside striking differences in maternal health and subtler signals in how…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #AU #Australia #BirthWeight #Bread #Cancer #CardiovascularDisease #diabetes #diet #food #Fruit #maternalhealth #MediterraneanDiet #newborn #Nutrition #Obesity #pregnancy #Prenatal #Respiratory #RespiratoryDisease #Vegetables
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/882778/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/676133/ What four pregnancy eating patterns revealed about mothers and newborns #BirthWeight #Bread #cancer #CardiovascularDisease #diabetes #diet #Éire #food #fruit #Health #IE #Ireland #MaternalHealth #MediterraneanDiet #newborn #Nutrition #Obesity #Pregnancy #Prenatal #Respiratory #RespiratoryDisease #Vegetables

Challenges in managing ruptured #ectopic #pregnancy complicated by hemorrhagic #shock in an #Ebola treatment unit in #DRC: first reported case, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/09/challenges-in-managing-ruptured-ectopic.html

Challenges in managing ruptured #ectopic #pregnancy complicated by hemorrhagic #shock in an #Ebola treatment unit in #DRC: first reported case, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/09/challenges-in-managing-ruptured-ectopic.html

Challenges in managing ruptured #ectopic #pregnancy complicated by hemorrhagic #shock in an #Ebola treatment unit in #DRC: first reported case, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/09/challenges-in-managing-ruptured-ectopic.html

Challenges in managing ruptured #ectopic #pregnancy complicated by hemorrhagic #shock in an #Ebola treatment unit in #DRC: first reported case, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/09/challenges-in-managing-ruptured-ectopic.html

Challenges in managing ruptured #ectopic #pregnancy complicated by hemorrhagic #shock in an #Ebola treatment unit in #DRC: first reported case, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/09/challenges-in-managing-ruptured-ectopic.html

First-time mother scared to feed her daughter after varying advice from multiple practitioners

Maddy Barrett wanted more than anything to feel “empowered” enough to make informed decisions after becoming a first-time…
#Australia #atenatalcare #AU #Australianstandardsforpostnatalcare #Austrlia #birth #Breastfeeding #Clancytrial #Cope #gidgetfoundation #latching #newborns #Post-patrumpsychosis #Postnatalcare #Postnataldepression #postpartum #postpartumanxiety #pregnancy
https://www.europesays.com/australia/89083/

‘Grief becomes a routine’: Farhana lost five babies. A ‘culture of silence’ exacerbated her pain
By Achol Arok

A first-of-its-kind study shows the prevalence of miscarriage in Australia but experts fear multicultural groups remain underrepresented

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/06/grief-becomes-a-routine-farhana-lost-five-babies-a-culture-of-silence-exacerbated-her-pain-ntwnfb

#Health #Miscarriage #Sydney #Australianews #Pregnancy #TheGuardian #AcholArok

‘Grief becomes a routine’: Farhana lost five babies. A ‘culture of silence’ exacerbated her pain
By Achol Arok

A first-of-its-kind study shows the prevalence of miscarriage in Australia but experts fear multicultural groups remain underrepresented

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/06/grief-becomes-a-routine-farhana-lost-five-babies-a-culture-of-silence-exacerbated-her-pain-ntwnfb

#Health #Miscarriage #Sydney #Australianews #Pregnancy #TheGuardian #AcholArok

‘Grief becomes a routine’: Farhana lost five babies. A ‘culture of silence’ exacerbated her pain
By Achol Arok

A first-of-its-kind study shows the prevalence of miscarriage in Australia but experts fear multicultural groups remain underrepresented

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/06/grief-becomes-a-routine-farhana-lost-five-babies-a-culture-of-silence-exacerbated-her-pain-ntwnfb

#Health #Miscarriage #Sydney #Australianews #Pregnancy #TheGuardian #AcholArok

https://www.europesays.com/ie/674187/ Irish women’s birth stories: ‘Women are so vulnerable when they’re pregnant’ – The Irish Times #Éire #ForYou #Health #hse #IE #Ireland #JenniferCarrollMacNeill #Pregnancy #RotundaHospital

New review examines why tetanus remains a global health problem

Tetanus is often considered a disease of the past, remembered mainly through childhood…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #AU #Australia #Bacterial #Children #Clostridium #Diagnostic #GlobalHealth #Healthcare #immunity #Immunoglobulin #infectiousdiseases #IntensiveCare #medicine #Microbiology #Muscle #nails #Nerve #nervoussystem #pregnancy #Respiratory #Swallowing #tetanus #Toxin #Vaccine #Wound #WoundCare
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/862179/

New review examines why tetanus remains a global health problem

Tetanus is often considered a disease of the past, remembered mainly through childhood…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #AU #Australia #Bacterial #Children #Clostridium #Diagnostic #GlobalHealth #Healthcare #immunity #Immunoglobulin #infectiousdiseases #IntensiveCare #medicine #Microbiology #Muscle #nails #Nerve #nervoussystem #pregnancy #Respiratory #Swallowing #tetanus #Toxin #Vaccine #Wound #WoundCare
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/862179/

Michelin-starred chef faces jail after serving 49,000 'illegal ants' on menu

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/evett-south-korea-ants-seoul-37466008

The internet slams a man drinking water while his partner gives birth, but a nurse sets them straight

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/the-internet-slams-a-man-drinking-water-while-his-partner-gives-birth-but-a-nurse-sets-them-straight-ex1/

Labor Support

https://video.drcassone.com/w/eQ7KK8MyHMpAU4bSNz6b8z

Women in Their 20s May Not Be Having Babies, but by 45 Most Probably Will
Record-low #US #birthrate could be only temporary as today’s young women postpone #pregnancy.
One of the biggest drivers of the delay in childbearing is widely considered to be a success story: the decline of #teenpregnancy, which had been unusually high in the United States. The change is attributed to more effective contraception, education about pregnancy prevention and less sex among teenagers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/upshot/births-decline-older-mothers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cVA.j6mI.43y-JlLGZk3R&smid=url-share

How #male #seahorses tap into their mothering side
“#Evolution of the brooding pouch was not cut from whole cloth de novo but was built like a quilt with different patches of genes and cells that function the same way in different animals,” says Bill Cresko, an evolutionary geneticist at Univ of Oregon who was not involved in study. “It’s way cool.”
Finding helps explain how #pregnancy could have evolved more than 150 times in animals, albeit almost exclusively in females
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/male-seahorses-mothering-brood-pouch

Paedo teacher Rebecca Joynes' 'dangerous' life in prison and rules for baby with pupil

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/paedo-teacher-rebecca-joynes-dangerous-36351621

Husband's 'insane' pizza order for his 'very' pregnant wife has people losing it

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/pizza-order-for-pregnant-wife

Tierra Walker Kept Getting Sicker — and Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion

https://murica.website/2025/11/tierra-walker-kept-getting-sicker-and-died-after-she-couldnt-get-an-abortion/

"My body—calm, heavy, and growing heavier—was as still as I could make it, but my mind was spinning. I was both laser-focussed on the problem and helpless to do anything about it." —Anna Russell for The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/notes-on-bed-rest/?src=longreads

#pregnancy #pregnant #premature #writing #nonfiction #longreads

Megan Markle's "Baby Mama Dance" Video Sparks Controversy Amid Fake Pregnancy Claims

#ai #fakenews #MeganMarkle #pregnancy #socialmedia
https://blazetrends.com/megan-markles-baby-mama-dance-video-sparks-controversy-amid-fake-pregnancy-claims/?fsp_sid=45791

#Pregnancy-loss cases represented just a fraction of the prosecutions tallied by #PregnancyJustice over 12 months. In total, Bach & her team found ≥210 cases in which authorities initiated #charges against #pregnant people for #crimes related to pregnancy or #birth. That’s a record number of pregnancy-related #prosecutions in 1 year—&, the researchers say, it’s almost certainly an undercount.

#law #SCOTUS #FarRight #ReproductiveRights #Abortion #AbortionIsHealthcare #MaleSupremacy #VoteBlue

#SCOTUS’ landmark 2022 ruling in #Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org “open[ed] the door to govt intrusion into #pregnancy in unprecedented ways,” #PregnancyJustice says, “throwing suspicion on pregnancy loss, particularly outside #medical settings.” In just the first year after Dobbs, ≥22 women around the US faced #criminal prosecution after suffering #miscarriages, #stillbirths, or the #death of #premature babies, the org reports.

#law #ReproductiveRights #VoteBlue
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/criminalizing-pregnancy-a-record-number-of-pregnant-women-were-prosecuted-the-year-after-dobbs/

“Fetal personhood” activists struggle to maintain the fiction they are neutral on birth control

When asked about their intentions to restrict or protect access to birth control, Republican lawmakers and leaders of the anti-abortion movement will typically point out the fact that there’s no bill currently under consideration explicitly aimed at banning #contraception.

As journalist Jessica Valenti noted in her "Abortion, Every Day" newsletter, the president of Ohio Right to Life mocked a state Democrat who warned of the risk to birth control by saying,
“she can’t cite a piece of legislation that bans contraception … it’s fear-mongering.”

Susan B. Anthony #Pro-#Life #America’s website calls it a “MYTH” that Republicans want to stop people from getting birth control.

“FACT: No state anywhere has banned birth control,” it says.

And yet taking one big swing to restrict access has never been the strategy of the anti-contraception playbook.

Rather, activists either maintain neutrality on birth control or say nothing while actively working to conflate abortion with birth control and pass laws that redefine life as beginning at conception.

As journalist Christina Cauterucci pointed out at Slate, the anti-abortion group #Americans #United #for #Life claims on its website that it takes “no stance on the underlying issue of contraceptive use,”
but elsewhere it insists that people who use emergency contraception
“take the lives of their unborn children.”

When Mother Jones reporter Kiera Butler attended the annual conference of the anti-abortion group #Heartbeat #International in 2022, she found restriction of birth control to be a major theme, with several sessions dedicated to the topic.

The push to redefine the start of #personhood as the point of #conception holds real implications for fertility treatments and the wide range of available birth control methods.

Many lawmakers in states with such “fetal personhood” laws on the books have not fully grappled with the practical consequences of how enforcing those laws in the post-Roe era might work.

In the near future, most Republicans will likely continue to dismiss the idea that there’s any threat to birth control at all, and leaders of anti-abortion organizations will surely do their best to change the subject.

But ♦️pay attention to how fights over expanding access to birth control
— including nonhormonal methods like condoms
— play out.

♦️Pay attention to proposals to gut funding for #TitleX, a federal program that provides birth control to millions of low-income people in the United States.

♦️Pay attention to efforts in Congress to restrict access to contraception in foreign aid spending bills.

♦️And pay attention to how courts and lawmakers aim to expand the definition of abortion.

(4/4)

https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf

#Human #Life #International #IUDs #Students #for #Life #Marjorie #Taylor #Greene #PlanB #Lauren #Boebert #Matt #Rosendale #Pulse #Life #Advocates #Tea #Party #Catholic #Church #Hobby #Lobby #Roe #Marsha #Blackburn #Mike #Braun #Griswold #Roe #Dobbs #Clarence #Thomas #Blake #Masters #Birth #control #Pregnancy #implantation #implantation #conception #birth #IVF #Alabama #disgusting #Joseph #Scheidler #Randall #Terry

In rationalizing the idea that 😨birth control can somehow abort a pregnancy before a pregnancy begins😨, activists make a number of claims.

#Human #Life #International, a global Catholic group, maintains that anything that prevents implantation is an abortion-inducing agent.

#IUDs, they insist, cause “early abortions.”

#Students #for #Life of America likewise claims all forms of hormonal birth control, including IUDs and the Pill, are abortifacients.

Georgia Republican Rep. #Marjorie #Taylor #Greene went so far as to proclaim that #PlanB emergency contraception “kills a baby in the womb once a woman is already pregnant” even though studies have shown the drug interferes with ovulation but does not inhibit implantation.

Greene isn’t the only Republican lawmaker blurring the lines.

Colorado Rep. #Lauren #Boebert tried to block funds for “abortifacient contraceptive drugs,” while Montana Rep. #Matt #Rosendale tried adding emergency contraception to a bill barring use of the federal funding for abortion.

In 2022, in perhaps one of the most glaring examples, Missouri Republicans pushed unsuccessfully to restrict public funding for IUDs and emergency contraception, with one of the state senators who led it proclaiming that “life begins at conception,” and “anything that destroys that life is abortion, it’s not birth control.”

Just this past week in Iowa, House Republicans attempted to amend a bipartisan bill to legalize over-the-counter birth control by adding new language that would require pharmacists to provide misleading and inaccurate information implying contraceptives are dangerous and a form of abortion.

#Pulse #Life #Advocates, an Iowa group opposing the contraception bill, claims on its website that birth control “kills babies.”

Many of these objections will sound familiar to anyone who followed the fight around the Affordable Care Act 15 years ago.

The political groundwork was laid in 2010 when the #Tea #Party movement came into power and fought alongside the #Catholic #Church against requirements that employer health insurance plans cover birth control.

And in 2014, the retail chain #Hobby #Lobby won its case before the US Supreme Court in which it argued it shouldn’t have to provide employees with IUDs or emergency contraception since its ownership viewed such things as abortion.

(3/n)

https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf

#Roe #Marsha #Blackburn #Mike #Braun #Griswold #Roe #Dobbs #Clarence #Thomas #Blake #Masters #Birth #control #Pregnancy #implantation #implantation #conception #birth #IVF #Alabama #disgusting #Joseph #Scheidler #Randall #Terry

As the U.S. Struggles With a Stillbirth Crisis, #Australia Offers a Model for How to Do Better
==

Australia has emerged as a global leader in the effort to lower the number of #babies that die before taking their first breaths.

It’s an approach that could benefit #America, which lags behind other wealthy nations in reducing #stillbirths.

#Pregnancy #Parents #Children #Health #HealthCare #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/what-australia-could-teach-america-about-reducing-stillbirths?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Despite the prevalence of #stillbirths in #Australia remaining high, with six babies lost every day on average, the risk factors are not discussed often enough during #antenatal care, according to experts and #BereavedParents. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-26/stillbirth-resources-communities-at-risk-preventable-deaths/103019520
#Maternity #GrievingParents #WomensHealth #MaternalHealth #pregnancy

Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: 13 Texas Women Begin Heartbreaking Testimony in Case Against State Abortion Bans https://jezebel.com/13-texas-women-begin-heartbreaking-testimony-in-case-ag-1850655383 #Jezebel #religionandabortion #humanreproduction #sexualrevolution #samanthacasiano #amandazurawski #ashleybrandt #laurenmiller #socialissues #nickkabat #pregnancy #abortion #hogan

Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Meet the Woman Helping Pregnant People Fight Hellish Legal Battles Post-Roe https://jezebel.com/meet-the-woman-helping-pregnant-people-fight-hellish-le-1850590592 #Jezebel #sexualandreproductivehealth #beginningofhumanpersonhood #abortionintheunitedstates #reproductiverights #sexualrevolution #pregnancyjustice #kelseycarpenter #abortiondebate #lourdesrivera #socialissues #lynnpaltrow #jaredpolis #personhood #midwifery #pregnancy #roevwade #lawcrime

‘14-15 Year-Old Girls Used To Get Married & Deliver Child Before 17 In Past, Read Manusmriti’: Gujarat HC In Plea For Termination Of Minor’s 7-Month Fetus

While dealing with a plea seeking termination of over 7-month-old fetus of a minor rape survivor (aged 16 years 11 months old), the Gujarat High Court orally observed as to how it was normal in the past for 14-15-year-old girls to get married and deliver a child before they turn 17.

#gujarat #GujaratHC #rape #pregnancy #abortion #ManuSmriti #justice #brahminism #hindutva #india

https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/gujarat-high-court/gujarat-high-court-normal-14-15-year-old-girls-get-married-deliver-child-manusmriti-termination-minor-7-month-fetus-230313

As baby boxes close, #Ohioans with unwanted #pregnancies lose another option
https://www.statenews.org/news/2023-04-12/as-baby-boxes-close-ohioans-with-unwanted-pregnancies-lose-another-option
#abortion #adoption #pregnancy #ohio