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    My post-9/11, with my 5-lbs. newborn boy

    APRIL 18, 2012 7:01AM

    By ManhattanWhiteGirl


    Topics: washington square, chelsea, missing persons, ground zero, nyc, roosevelt hospital, twin towers, single moms, childbirth, relationships, writers & writing, life stories, real families, 9/11

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    A story about my son--born on 9/10/01

    FEBRUARY 29, 2012 6:32AM

    By ManhattanWhiteGirl


    Topics: nyc, roosevelt hospital, preeclampsia, nurses, doctors, twin towers, single moms, childbirth, addiction, alcoholism, relationships, writers & writing, life stories, real families, 9/11

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    The Almost Child

    JANUARY 24, 2012 2:22PM

    By Lesley Clark


    Topics: cancer, death, dying, doctors, kids, love, life, happiness, sadness, children, female, ovaries, cyst, illness, sickness, childbirth, friendship

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    A Crone Considers Modern Childbirth

    JUNE 13, 2011 9:16PM

    By joanpgage


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    The Changes it Takes and the Choices We Make

    APRIL 13, 2011 12:59AM

    By John's Mom


    Topics: autism, childbirth, health, family, philadelphia

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    Things you can't tell by looking at me

    NOVEMBER 4, 2010 5:00AM

    By Kat Hudson


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    Solo Flight

    JULY 29, 2010 5:01PM

    By bluestocking babe


    Topics: real families, open call, childbirth, labor and delivery, beltway sniper, single motherhood

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    Why are so many new mothers in California dying?

    FEBRUARY 4, 2010 7:24AM

    By AmyTuteurMD


    Topics: childbirth, health

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    Let's Push a Watermelon through your anus That's a good chap

    JULY 14, 2009 2:14PM

    By fingerlakeswanderer


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    A Father's Guide To Natural Childbirth

    JANUARY 30, 2009 5:55PM

    By coogansbluf


    Topics: breastfeeding, placentas, blood, humor, fathers, childbirth

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    How I Became a Mother Against All Odds

    JANUARY 30, 2009 1:21AM

    By Sally Swift


    Topics: love, hope, panic, fear, bonding, childbirth, arrogant idiot doctors, infertility, motherhood

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    "The mother is the factory"

    AUGUST 18, 2008 10:33AM

    By AmyTuteurMD


    Topics: health, parenting, childbirth

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    acquiring children

    AUGUST 14, 2008 5:05PM

    By MsLissa716


    Topics: adoption, childbirth, relationships

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    How to lower the C-section rate: step 1, look in the mirror.

    AUGUST 14, 2008 3:01PM

    By AmyTuteurMD


    Topics: health, parenting, childbirth

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    Ricki Lake: Please stop lying about homebirth!

    AUGUST 12, 2008 2:38PM

    By AmyTuteurMD


    Topics: health, parenting, childbirth

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