Waterbirth is simple. Within the simplicity of water labor and birth lies a complexity of questions, choices, opinions, research data, women’s experience and practitioner observations.
For most of the prior century, the adage, "Once a cesarean, Always a cesarean" has been the rule of reason adhered to by most delivering physicians. During the late 1970's many women ...
Health care providers consider labor to be preterm if it starts before 37 weeks of pregnancy. Because a fetus is not fully grown at 37 weeks, and it may not be able to survive ...
While many consumers say they care about issues such as sweatshop labor, the existence of a very small market for ethically-produced products does not reflect this sentiment. One ...
California Labor Code section 2802 requires an employer to indemnify its employees for reasonable expenses incurred in the course and scope of employment. Section 2802 was designed to ...
The history of monastic beer brewing reaches back into the Middle Ages and because Benedictine “rules” required monks to produce all things they needed to live many ...
Recent studies by Galí and Gertler (1999), Galí, Gertler, and López-Salido (GGL) (2001a, 2001b), and Sbordone (1998, 2001) have argued that the New Keynesian Phillips curve ...
Labor pain is a cause of stress and suffering; for which many women seek methods to relieve this pain. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of relaxation techniques on pain ...
We develop a new empirical approach to identify tradable service activities. Contrary to conventional views of service activities as nontradable, we find a significant number of service ...