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  • June 2008

    • Stay-At-Home Mom, Indeed

      Babble  |  Jun 27, 08 4:08 PM CDT

      Stay-At-Home Mom, Indeed

      (Newser) - Home-birthing isn’t only strange and magical—it requires some covert-operation skills, Madeline Holler writes in Babble. After finding she preferred an attending midwife in the birth of her first child, Holler found using one for her second to be illegal in Missouri, where she'd moved. As such, she found, "there were trade-offs in going off the grid to have a baby." More »

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      pregnancy  • Missouri  • mothers  • motherhood  • felony  • placenta

  • July 2007

    • New Moms Use Natural Remedy for Depression

      USA Today  |  Jul 22, 07 8:05 AM CDT

      New Moms Use Natural Remedy for Depression

      (Newser) - People think it's weird, and there's no research to prove it works, but new mothers  who've suffered from postpartum depression swear by it. The placenta that nourished the baby is injested by the new mom—dried and put into gelatin capsules, or just plain cooked and eaten. The placenta is thought to contain nutrients that act as a natural preventative for postpartum depression. More »

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      FDA  • mothers  • childbirth  • birth  • mammals  • nutrients  • organs  • placenta  • fetus

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