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Campaign to improve NHS care for women after miscarriage
Summary of story from The Guardian, October 10, 2011 The website Mumsnet has launched a campaign backed by doctors and other experts to improve the care given to the thousands of vulnerable women who...
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Pregnant women at risk in Pakistan
Summary of story from Dawn, October 9, 2011 Expectant mothers in monsoon hit regions of Pakistan are increasingly at risk, doctors have said. The rains that hit lower Sindh in August and September have...
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Unreliable miscarriage tests cause infant deaths
Summary of story from Sky News, October 14, 2011 Hundreds of pregnant women in the UK lose their babies needlessly each year due to unreliable miscarriage tests, according to a study. Under the current...
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What happened to Thalidomide babies?
Summary of story from BBC News, November 8, 2011 In November 1961, a newspaper reported that Thalidomide, a sedative drug commonly used by pregnant women to ease morning sickness, was responsible for a...
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Home births should be option for low risk pregnancies, report says
Summary of story from The Guardian, November 25, 2011 Women with low-risk pregnancies should have the right to choose where they want to give birth, according to a study of nearly 65,000 births in...
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Pregnancies blamed for poor school attendance in Mozambique
Summary of story from All Africa, December 1, 2011 According to Mozambique’s Deputy Minister of Education, Arlindo Chilundo, over 9,300 girls were forced to stop attending school last year due to early...
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Year of the dragon prompts Taiwan debate about gender scans
Summary of story from The Independent, January 10, 2012 Taiwan’s birth rate dropped to the world’s lowest in 2011. The government has blamed superstition as it seems many people were waiting for the...
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Over tenth of pregnant women in England continue to smoke
Shanna McGoldrick WVoN co-editor According to recently released NHS data, 13.4% of mothers in England were smokers at the time of giving birth in the final quarter of 2011/12. Although an improvement...
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Anti-HIV drug, tenofovir, can be used during pregnancy
Rachel Ogbu WVoN co-editor New research suggests that the use of the anti-HIV drug, tenofovir, during pregnancy is safe for infants. According to HealthDay, the new findings from the National...
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US Democrats introduce bill to protect pregnant workers’ rights
Liz Draper WVoN co-editor A bill designed to protect pregnant women’s rights in the workplace was introduced by five Democrats in the US Congress earlier this week. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act...
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Pregnancy is biggest killer of teenage girls worldwide
Naomi Wilcox WVoN co-editor Pregnancy is the number one killer of teenage girls, according to a report published this week by the charity Save The Children. The report, ‘Every Woman’s Right: How Family...
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Women not informed about natural birth options vs repeat c-section
Kathy Audin WVoN co-editor Women are opting for repeated cesarean sections without being fully informed about natural delivery options by their physicians. A study conducted by the American Journal of...
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Pregnancy no obstacle for Malaysian athlete
Liz Draper WVoN co-editor Pregnant women achieving incredible athletic feats never fail to make the news, and seem to inspire awe and criticism in equal amounts. When Paula Radcliffe won the 2007 New...
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US school under attack for forcing girls to take pregnancy tests
Rachel Ogbu WVoN co-editor A school in Louisiana, USA, has been criticised for forcing girls to undergo pregnancy tests and dismissing any who refuse the test or who are found to be pregnant. Now...
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Chemotherapy may be safe in pregnancy, study reveals
Rachel Salmon WVoN co-editor Women with breast cancer should not ease up on their chemotherapy treatment while pregnant, a new study has found. The results of the German research, published in the...
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We should be valuing pregnant women and new mothers, not sacking them
Rachel Salmon WVoN co-editor A few years ago I attended a friend’s baby shower. My friend told the group that one of her husband’s colleagues had been made redundant because she had a young child and...
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Pregnancy ‘formula’ criticised
Critics of a new pregnancy formula say it offers no new answers to fertility problems. A new formula to predict a woman’s chance of falling pregnant has been criticised for not giving couples any new...
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UKBA puts pregnant women at risk
Pregnant women are torn from their families and healthcare, causing undue distress, health problems. The UK Border Agency (UKBA) came under heavy fire last week after it was accused of ‘endangering’...
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Maternity discrimination on the rise
Increasing number of pregnant women facing illegal discrimination in the workplace. Pregnant women are facing increasing levels of discrimination at work and one in seven is being made redundant while...
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Eating disorders in pregnancy undetected
‘Pregorexia’ is becoming more common in pregnant women. A recent survey of more than 700 pregnant women found that one in 14 women were highly concerned about weight gain from pregnancy. Two per cent...
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