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Woman sentenced for ending daughter's pregnancy - NW Florida Daily News
Lifetime's "The Pregnancy Pact" Premieres On January 23 - All Headline News
Stillborn Case Linked to Bleeding Gums During Pregnancy - US News and World Report
Pregnancy makes me an emotional wreck - Deseret News

Woman sentenced for ending daughter's pregnancy - NW Florida Daily News

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 09:34 PM PST

MIRAMAR, Fla. -- A South Florida mother who ended her teenage daughter's pregnancy and dumped the fetus in the garbage will spend three years under house arrest.

A Broward County judge sentenced 39-year-old Tonuya Rainey on Friday. Rainey pleaded guilty to five felony and two misdemeanor charges, including unlawful termination of pregnancy, practicing medicine without a license, child abuse and unlawful disposal of fetal remains. She had faced up to 26 years in prison.

Authorities say Rainey admitted giving her daughter drugs from a Miami clinic to end the pregnancy.

The daughter told police she gave birth in March 2009 over a toilet. Rainey later said she placed the fetus in a bag and dumped the body in the garbage.

Following house arrest, Rainey faces seven years of probation.

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Lifetime's "The Pregnancy Pact" Premieres On January 23 - All Headline News

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 07:31 AM PST

January 22, 2010 10:38 a.m. EST

Topics: Television, Entertainment

Los Angeles, CA, United States (CNS) - The new Lifetime movie inspired by a true story, "The Pregnancy Pact," premieres on Saturday, January 23. The film explores the costs of teen pregnancy with s story of a fictional "pregnancy pact" set against the backdrop of actual news reports about teen pregnancy from June 2008.

Thora Birch stars as Sidney Bloom, an on-line magazine journalist who returns to her hometown to investigate the sudden spike in teenage pregnancies at her old high school. When the number of pregnant girls hits 18, a media frenzy begins after Time Magazine reports that the number of pregnancies is due to a "pregnancy pact."

People begin to question whether "the pact" is real and Sidney realizes that all of the attention is covering up much larger issues that community is faced with.

The film also stars Camryn Manheim of ABC's "The Practice" and Nancy Travis of TBS' "The Bill Engvall Show."

"The Pregnancy Pact" premieres on Lifetime on Saturday, January 23 at 9 pm ET, with encores to follow on Sunday and Monday at 9 pm.

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Stillborn Case Linked to Bleeding Gums During Pregnancy - US News and World Report

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 11:06 AM PST

FRIDAY, Jan. 22 (HealthDay News) -- A new report shows the first documented link between fetal death and a mother's pregnancy-related gum disease.

The patient, a 35-year-old woman, delivered a full-term stillborn baby in Santa Monica, Calif. During her pregnancy, she had experienced severe gum bleeding, a symptom of pregnancy-related gingivitis.

Hormonal changes during pregnancy often lead to bleeding gums, with an estimated 75 percent of pregnant women experiencing the problem, the study authors noted. But, they explained, bleeding in the gums allows bacteria in the mouth to enter the bloodstream and potentially infect a fetus unless it is stopped by the immune system.

In the case of this patient, postmortem tests suggest that bacteria from the mouth entered the bloodstream, traveled to the placenta and infected and killed the fetus, according to the report in the February issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Eventually, after receiving periodontal care, the study authors noted that the patient became pregnant again and gave birth to a healthy baby.

"There is an old wives' tale that you lose a tooth for each baby, and this is due to the underlying changes during pregnancy," Yiping Han, a researcher from the periodontics department at Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, said in a university news release. "But if there is another underlying condition in the background," a baby's life can be at risk.

Han suggested that, if possible, women should visit a dentist and clear up any oral health problems before becoming pregnant. They should also be advised to alert their doctor if they experience gum bleeding while pregnant.

More information

The American Dental Association has more on oral health and pregnancy.

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Pregnancy makes me an emotional wreck - Deseret News

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 02:10 PM PST

I cried over a Slurpee this week.

And just like that, I sealed the impression in my husband's mind that I am, indeed, a hysterical pregnant woman.

I'm 13 weeks pregnant with our second child, and I can tell on my husband's face that he's wondering where in the world his wife is. In her place is a food-worshipping, emotional wreck who needs a lot of attention.

Take for example the Slurpee incident, which is what it is now being called around my house.

I had been watching a TV show that showed several high school students drinking Slurpees. Let me state for the record that I do not like Slurpees.

But as I watched the show, I suddenly needed one. No, I didn't want one; I needed one — NOW.

In desperation, I tried to convince my husband to get me one and then turned to my father, who was already out and could just stop by the store. It would be so easy, I pleaded. Just one cherry Slurpee. Please. Please!

I had very little hope that my demands were being taken seriously. But then an hour later, my father walked through the door with a tall, gas-station cup in his left hand.

I did what any rational adult would do; I broke down and sobbed like a baby.

My family watched in awe as I reached for the Slurpee through my tears muttering, "Thank you. Thank you. I just really needed one. Thank you."

I wish I could say it was the first time that food has brought this pregnant woman to tears.

While pregnant with our first daughter, I wandered off in the grocery store once only to have my husband find me in the ice cream aisle sobbing over a particular ice cream treat that I had loved as a child.

I also had a particularly public and embarrassing scene when I was seven months pregnant and the Great Steak & Potato Co. kiosk at the ZCMI Center was closed.

All I wanted was a steak-and-cheese sandwich. Was that too much to ask? So I stood in a crowded food court, alternating between rollicking laughter and gut-wrenching sobs until a friend rescued me.

Well, she didn't so much rescue me as force me to sit down and shut up because parents were telling their children not to stare.

Am I proud of this? No way.

And it's not like I don't notice the eye rolls from my husband or the way he tiptoes around me like I'm a ticking time bomb waiting to explode.

It's just that pregnant women have extreme emotions. If you've been pregnant, back me up on this. Pregnant women never feel a little hungry or a little sad or that they need to go the bathroom a little bit. Your urges come fast and they come without warning.

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