﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>childbirth news stories on Newser</title><description>Read more childbirth stories on Newser</description><link>http://www.newser.com/taggrid/6265/childbirth.html</link><copyright>2009 - Newser</copyright><language>en-us</language><generator>Newser Feed Generator</generator><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 6:13:33 CST</pubDate><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/73467/mom-to-be-plans-to-broadcast-birth-online.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Mom-to-Be Plans to Broadcast Birth Online</title><description>A Minnesota mom-to-be has been blogging about her pregnancy daily for months and plans to bring readers into the delivery room with a live online broadcast of the birth. Lynsee and her husband agreed to a request from online community MomsLikeMe to allow a tasteful video of the birth, she...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/73467/mom-to-be-plans-to-broadcast-birth-online.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 8:11:02 CST</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/72180/women-getting-shorter-heavier.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Women Getting Shorter, Heavier</title><description>Humans are still changing, and the female winners of the evolutionary crapshoot will be shorter and heavier down the line. A new study that tracked the motherly productivity of the slim-and-tall set alongside their squatter peers concludes that a lower center of gravity will win out in the end, and...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/72180/women-getting-shorter-heavier.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:18:01 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/69603/yemen-right-wingers-blocked-push-to-end-child-marriages.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Yemen Right-Wingers Blocked Push to End Child Marriages</title><description>Conservative lawmakers in Yemen, where a 12-year-old girl died giving birth to her husband's child last week, shot down an attempt to set the minimum marriage age at 17 earlier this year, CNN reports. The lawmakers kept the bill from reaching the country's president by arguing that it violated Islamic...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/69603/yemen-right-wingers-blocked-push-to-end-child-marriages.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 3:17:03 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/69423/yemeni-child-bride-12-dies-in-childbirth.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Yemeni Child Bride, 12, Dies in Childbirth</title><description>A pregnant 12-year-old Yemeni girl has died after three days of excruciating labor that also claimed her baby, a human rights group tells CNN. Fawziya Ammodi's poverty-stricken family forced her to drop out of school last year to marry a 24-year-old man. More than half of Yemeni girls are married...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/69423/yemeni-child-bride-12-dies-in-childbirth.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 3:03:00 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/64444/turlington-models-a-more-charitable-path.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Turlington Models a More Charitable Path</title><description>Christy Turlington still considers modeling her work—“It’s the only thing that pays me; everything else is school or volunteerism,” the Columbia masters candidate, often described as one of the world’s most beautiful people, tells Vogue . “My face is a dime a dozen in many parts of the world.” Specifically,...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/64444/turlington-models-a-more-charitable-path.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:05:59 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/53672/want-a-mind-blowing-orgasm-have-a-kid.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Want a Mind-Blowing Orgasm? Have a Kid</title><description>Going into labor, most women would agree, is not much fun. But for Amber Hartnell of Hawaii, childbirth offered "the most overwhelming pleasure I have ever felt in my life"—a 4-hour sexual climax. As the Guardian reports, she's one of the women in a recent documentary on "orgasmic birth,...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/53672/want-a-mind-blowing-orgasm-have-a-kid.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 9:47:01 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/52964/first-octuplets-ready-to-leave-hospital.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>First Octuplets Ready to Leave Hospital</title><description>The first two Suleman octuplets will be released from the hospital soon, People reports. “Four of them are ready to come home now. They’ve been ready for days,” Nadya Suleman told Dr. Phil, but hospital officials are waiting to inspect her new, bigger home before releasing the babies, spaced out...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/52964/first-octuplets-ready-to-leave-hospital.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:11:33 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/52376/octuplet-mom-birth-tape-may-go-public.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Octuplet Mom Birth Tape May Go Public</title><description>Nadya Suleman may be serving up the realest reality show of all: TMZ reports a videotape of her octuplets’ delivery is being shopped for seven figures. Suleman apparently gave her consent, but it’s not clear who did the filming.</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/52376/octuplet-mom-birth-tape-may-go-public.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 9:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/43860/nigeria-struggles-to-protect-child-brides.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Nigeria Struggles to Protect Child Brides</title><description>In northern Nigeria, almost half the girls are married by age 15, and a law outlawing child marriage faces serious resistance from Muslim leaders, the Times of London reports. "We have no choice," says one teen who was brutally raped by her husband. As a result, fistula—a hole torn...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/43860/nigeria-struggles-to-protect-child-brides.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:44:11 CST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>