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Pregnancy: Clinic in Rural Peru Draws More Women by Following Local ... - New York Times
Women's Hope helps women deal with pregnancy - Auburn Plainsman
Alcohol awareness day targets pregnant women - Stuff
Address Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder - Scoop

Kourtney Kardashian Scares Her Boyfriend with Her Mood Swings - The Celebrity Cafe.com

Posted: 07 Sep 2009 10:02 AM PDT

Kourtney Kardashian Scares Her Boyfriend with Her Mood Swings
7-Sep-2009
Written by: Domonique Hume

Kourtneys pregnancy causes her to have terrible mood swings.

Kourtney Kardashian admits that since she has been pregnant, shes been having terrible mood swings that are apparently scaring boyfriend Scott Disick.

Kourtney says that despite her terrible hormones, she is trying her best not to be rude to the people close to her.

"Scott keeps getting scared. But he's been great with my mood swings so far. He's like, 'Just take a deep breath,'" said Kardashian, according to People.

"He heard that with the last three months of a pregnancy you have really extreme mood swings so he was joking, 'Oh, you're not going to believe the mood swings,'" Kourtney said.

Scott isnt the only one who has experienced Kourtneys mood swings. Her family, including sisters Kim and Khloe and mother Kris, have also witnessed Kourtney's wild emotions.

"If I'm just trying to pick a fight with someone and if I'm around Scott or my mom, then they'll probably get it worst. If someone is annoying me - usually my mom - I'll call Khloe and it'll make me feel better because she'll agree with me."

Kardashian further said, "I throw b***h fits. The other day, I was like, 'This house is such a mess. Now that Scott's living in my house, there's stuff everywhere. We need to get it organized.' Everything I had to do, I blamed it on Scott."

Kourtney is now realizing that she cant keep picking on Disick.

Sources: TVNZ, People, News Track India

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Pregnancy: Clinic in Rural Peru Draws More Women by Following Local ... - New York Times

Posted: 07 Sep 2009 01:44 PM PDT

Rural parts of Ayacucho, Peru, have had some of the country's highest death rates in pregnancy and childbirth. As in many poor countries, most of the deaths occur because women give birth at home, and those trying to help do not know how to deliver a baby safely and prevent or treat hemorrhage, infection and other deadly complications. In 1999 in the Santillana district, part of the Ayacucho region, only 6 percent of births took place at a clinic.

Health workers set out to change that. They started by asking people in the community about traditional ways of giving birth, and about what the clinic was doing wrong. They got an earful. Workers at the clinic did not speak the local language, Quechua. They treated patients brusquely, and barred husbands and other relatives from the delivery room. They forced women to wear hospital gowns instead of their own clothes, and made them give birth lying on a table instead of squatting. They threw away the placenta instead of giving it to the family to bury in a warm place.

Working with local people, members of a nongovernmental group, Health Unlimited, changed delivery services at a clinic in the Santillana district. They made sure Quechua was spoken, let relatives stay and help, set up delivery rooms so that women could squat and made other changes based on local traditions.

By 2007, 83 percent of births were taking place at the clinic. In a report in this month's Bulletin of the World Health Organization, the authors say that the project in Ayacucho shows that indigenous women with little formal education want professional help giving birth, and will use it if they are treated with respect at clinics.

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Women's Hope helps women deal with pregnancy - Auburn Plainsman

Posted: 07 Sep 2009 11:28 AM PDT

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Alcohol awareness day targets pregnant women - Stuff

Posted: 07 Sep 2009 07:06 PM PDT

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The Alcohol Advisory Council (Alac) is using International Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Day to encourage pregnant women to abstain from drinking.

The council said drinking alcohol at any time during pregnancy could affect the normal development of the foetus and there was no consistent message from health professionals about safe levels of consumption.

That had to change and there needed to be research to more accurately ascertain the prevalence of the disorder.

Alac early intervention manager Sue Paton said drinking at any time during pregnancy could be risky.

"The harms that result from pre-natal exposure to alcohol range from mild intellectual and behavioural issues to profound disabilities," she said.

Research commissioned by Alac showed that many women still believed a small amount of alcohol was harmless.

It found only 40 percent believed women should abstain altogether from drinking during pregnancy.

Half of the women surveyed said one drink or less was safe to be consumed on a typical drinking occasion in pregnancy.

"But in fact there is no known safe level of consumption of alcohol for pregnant women and unfortunately, medical advice on drinking during pregnancy is variable," she said.

Alac was also calling for better policies to address Foetal Alcohol Disorder Spectrum and recommended labelling alcohol containers to caution against drinking during pregnancy.

It has an application for health advisory labels before Food Standards Australia New Zealand.

International Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Day is held on the ninth day of the ninth month each year.

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Address Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder - Scoop

Posted: 07 Sep 2009 07:42 PM PDT

Need For Better Policies To Address Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Press Release
8 September 2009

The Alcohol Advisory Council (ALAC) is calling for better policies to address Fetal Alcohol Disorder Spectrum.

Speaking on the eve of the 10-year anniversary of International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Day (held on the ninth day of the ninth month), ALAC Early Intervention Manager Sue Paton said drinking at any time during pregnancy could affect the normal development of the fetus.

"The harms that result from pre-natal exposure to alcohol range from mild intellectual and behavioural issues to profound disabilities," she said.

Research commissioned by ALAC showed that many women still believed a small amount of alcohol would not hurt the fetus, she said. The research found only 40 percent believed women should abstain altogether from drinking during pregnancy. Half of the women surveyed said one drink or less was safe to be consumed on a typical drinking occasion in pregnancy.

"But in fact there is no known safe level of consumption of alcohol for pregnant women and unfortunately, medical advice on drinking during pregnancy is variable," she said.

Ms Paton said there needed to be a stronger public policy response to FASD in New Zealand. ALAC recommended labelling alcohol containers to caution against drinking during pregnancy and currently had an application for health advisory labels before Food Standards Australia New Zealand.

There needed to be consistent messages from health professionals on the dangers of drinking while pregnant, proactive identification, assessment and help for families at risk of being affected by FASD, and research to more accurately ascertain the prevalence of FASD.

Ms Paton said there was little information about the true prevalence of FASD in New Zealand as there had been no population based prevalence studies.

However, the Ministry of Health estimated there were two to three per thousand live births for FASD and four to five per thousand live births for partial-FASD.

Ms Paton said there was a danger the rate of FASD in New Zealand might increase because the prevalence of potentially hazardous drinking among women of child-bearing age was increasing.

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