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• The WHO on Birth: the “Fortaleza Declaration” and “Safe Motherhood: Care in Normal Birth”

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-25 • ( 5 )

  Because I seem to be on a bit of a theme right now (Easter and birth? Why not!), I thought some of you might like a look at the recommendations on birthing care from the World Health Organisation. The WHO,… Read More ›

• ‘I’m Mrs. “Extra! Extra! This just in”‘

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-25 • ( 1 )

  An unofficial, more gut-wrenching songvid of Britney Spears’ “Piece of Me”. [via Cupidsbow.]

• Tagged for the weird-and-random-stuff meme

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-25 • ( 3 )

  [image source] I was tagged on the cast iron balcony. My mission: Share 5 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names, and links to… Read More ›

• Sunday Cheezburger: Clownfish edition

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-23 • ( 1 )

• A good morning.

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-23 • ( 8 )

  [image source] I was awoken with a tray: pancake, maple syrup, bacon, orange juice, coffee (roasted yesterday), and a Green & Black’s 70% chocolate egg. Life is good. Happy renewal season to you all. A March/April fertility festival makes as… Read More ›

• Why are caesarean section rates increasing so rapidly?

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-22 • ( 11 )

  [image source] I just placed this comment at Andrew Leigh’s blog, but I thought I would open up the floor here. Commenter conrad asked about the rapid increase in cesarean section and birth intervention rates in Australia: Just out of… Read More ›

• British understatement wins the day

  By tigtog on 2008-03-22 • ( 9 )

  Only the bloke on the left was allowed into the cinema to see Expelled in Minneapolis. The other bloke got expelled. Obviously, the horns were just too much. Read all about it. Original image source: University of Minnesota (Morris). Modified… Read More ›

• Happy anniversary, cob logger!

  By tigtog on 2008-03-22 • ( 7 )

  Lauredhel has now officially been a Hoyden for a year!

• Newsflash: Toys Now Indistinguishable From Satire

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-21 • ( 5 )

  Because I couldn’t make this up. Not if I tried. Struts Runway Magic. It’s a plastic equine! It’s an unfeasibly insubstantial fashion model! It comes in clearly delineated racial types! It’s – Struts Runway Magic! Now selling at a polymer-soaked… Read More ›

• Another lap of the circuit

  By tigtog on 2008-03-21 • ( 2 )

  At 0548 GMT (or UT if you prefer) on March 20, the Sun (from a geocentric perspective) passed the celestial equator heading north, making it the autumnal equinox for us Southrons and the vernal equinox for them Northrons. APOD has… Read More ›

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