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2 unusual facts about Pregnancy


All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You

In the track, singer Ann Wilson sings of a one-night stand with a good-looking young man, only to reveal later in the song that her intent all along was to use the encounter as a way to become pregnant.

Pregnancy, Birth and Abortion

Pregnancy, Birth and Abortion is a 1958 book about human pregnancy by Paul Gebhard, Wardell Pomeroy, Clyde Martin, and Cornelia Christenson.


A Private Matter

A Private Matter is a 1992 made-for-television (HBO) drama based on the true 1962 story of Sherri Finkbine, a resident of Phoenix, Arizona in the first trimester of her fifth pregnancy.

Abortion in Brazil

Abortion can only be legally performed in Brazil if the pregnancy puts the life of the woman in danger or if the pregnancy is the result of a rape.

African-American family structure

The Moynihan Report, written by Assistant Secretary of Labor, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, initiated the debate on whether the African-American family structure leads to negative outcomes, such as poverty, teenage pregnancy and gaps in education or whether the reverse is true and the African American family structure is a result of institutional discrimination, poverty and other segregation.

All Fired Up! Live

The revelation of Una Healy's pregnancy in September 2011 meant fans began to question whether she would still appear on the tour.

Allan Rosenfield

In 1985, Rosenfield and Deborah Maine had the article Maternal Mortality — A Neglected Tragedy: Where is the M in MCH? published in The Lancet, drawing attention to deaths of women in the third-world in pregnancy and childbirth.

Anthony Hutton

On the final night, third placed Makosi told Davina McCall that she was telling the truth when she said she was pregnant, during Anthony's interview he looked shocked when McCall told him about Makosi's pregnancy claims and said that they never had sex, during this the crowd chanted 'Liar, Liar' at Makosi.

Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle

Yet the Crown did not hesitate to employ him on routine errands: in 1537 Queen Jane Seymour during her pregnancy developed a passion for quail, and since quail were abundant in the marshes around Calais, Lisle devoted much time to supplying them to the Queen.

Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome

Comorbidities in this study included malignant hypertension (30%), TMA with a history of transplant (23%), TMA associated with pregnancy (21%), glomerulopathy (17%), systemic disease such as SLE or PSS (6%), and malignancy (1%).

Chelsea Gladden

Frequently quoted in the media, her advice has been featured in several media outlets, including Parents Magazine, People Magazine’s Moms & Babies, Pregnancy Magazine, US News, NBC San Diego News, Fox 5 San Diego and MSN’s HerSay with Soleil Moon Frye.

Diane O'Connor

Diane learns that teenager, Amber Sharpe (Lydia Lloyd-Henry), is pregnant and planning to terminate her pregnancy.

Disco Love

Due to her pregnancy, Frankie Sandford was confirmed to be absent from the group's live performances of the single.

Eighth Amendment

Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, which bans termination of pregnancy in the Republic of Ireland

Girdle of Thomas

There were a number of supposed original girdle relics across the ancient Christian world, partly conflated with "tertiary" relics of belts that had touched the supposed genuine belt - Elizabeth of York, queen of Henry VII of England, bought one of these from a friar to help her pregnancy, and there was an "original" at Westminster Abbey in London.

Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia

Seven months into her second pregnancy, Alexandra took a walk with her friends on the bank of the Moskva River and jumped directly into a boat that was permanently moored there, but fell as she got in.

Hayley Ramsey

Disability Now, a magazine aimed at disabled people praised Hollyoaks for writing in Stewart's real life pregnancy into her stroylines, also adding it was positive they treat her like any other member of the cast.

HELLP syndrome

An association has been demonstrated between long chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA-dehydrogenase (LCHAD) deficiency and maternal HELLP and AFLP (acute fatty liver of pregnancy).

Hilde Coppi

Hilde was pregnant by this time, later giving birth to the couple's son at the Berlin Women's Prison on 27 November.

Isabel Sawhill

Her expertise lies in the areas of children, education, the federal budget, poverty and inequality, social welfare policy, and teen pregnancy.

IVG

Abortion, in languages such as French, Italian, and Portuguese where "voluntary interruption of pregnancy" translates with this abbreviation

Jacqui McQueen

At Tina's scan, Tina's pregnancy paternity results uncover Russ Owen (Stuart Manning) is the baby's father, not her boyfriend and Jacqui convinces her to keep quiet.

Jeannine Parvati Baker

Jeannine Parvati's contribution to the realm of prenatal yoga was groundbreaking, and in the following years, other authors such as yogini Geeta Iyengar and Janet Balaskas expanded the Prenatal Yoga realm with texts which further asserted benefits of yoga for healthy pregnancy and childbirth preparation, eventually resulting in one of the most popularized trends for modern women.

Juan Escobedo

TELA SOFA is a non-profit organization dedicated to "Provoking Thought and Inspiring Solutions" to youth who are at risk of substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, early pregnancy and gang involvement.

Jury of matrons

John Gay’s The Beggar's Opera alludes to the idea that women awaiting trial or temporarily reprieved from hanging by virtue of an inaccurate diagnosis of pregnancy would sometimes attempt to conceive by their jailers in hopes of pardon.

Logan family

Her first pregnancy resulted in a miscarriage, her second resulted in the birth of a daughter Nicole Ann Marone who was stillborn, and her final attempt at motherhood via surrogate Sandy Sommers (real name: Agnes Jones) resulted in a miscarriage after Sandy fell down a flight of stairs.

Lori Bryant-Woolridge

She is the co-founder of Mothers Off Duty, a non-profit women's organization committed to aiding in the prevention of teen pregnancy and the promotion of continued education and parental responsibility.

Marjory Mecklenburg

She has served as an advisor for the Office of Technology Assessment and was appointed by Ronald Reagan to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, serving in the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs and serving as Director of the Office of Population Affairs until 1985.

Mekhai Andersen

When Cook announced she was pregnant, the producers of Criminal Minds chose to have Cook's character also be pregnant, rather than try to hide the pregnancy.

Mirsada Mirjana Bajraktarević

At the time of her death, Mirsada was sharing an apartment with her sister Dina and was in the second trimester of her pregnancy.

Mônica Angélica de Paula

Before, she used to practice basketball — even played with Adrianinha and Kelly of the current national team — and volleyball, which she abandoned after a pregnancy.

Mythology of Lost

Since "the Incident", increased electromagnetic immersion caused women who conceive children on the Island to die of an auto-immune condition during the second trimester of pregnancy.

Nobody Waved Good-bye

However, an Irish distribution deal fell through when the NFB refused a demand from Irish censors to cut references to sex and pregnancy.

Olga Sosnovska

In Britain, she was known for playing Fiona Carter in series 3-4 of the popular series Spooks, which she left mid-season owing to her first pregnancy in 2005.

Operculum

Operculum (in pregnancy), the cervical mucus plug that blocks the cervix of the uterus after conception

Ovulation induction

Recombinant HCG (rHCG), recombinant luteinizing hormone (rLH) and urine-derived hCG (uHCG) are equally effective in achieving final follicular maturation in IVF with regards to pregnancy rates and risk of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome.

Preggo

Pregnancy fetishism, contexts in which pregnancy is seen by individuals and cultures as an erotic phenomenon

Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day

Elvy Robichaud declared October 15 to be Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day across the province, saying that "Miscarriage and infant death are a source of grief, often silent, for mothers, fathers, siblings and grandparents."

Premature rupture of membranes

Prelabor rupture of membranes (PROM), or premature rupture of membranes, is a condition that occurs in pregnancy , and is defined as rupture of the membrane of the amniotic sac and chorion more than one hour before the onset of labor, which, in turn, is defined by the ACOG as uterine contractions of sufficient frequency and intensity to result in progressive effacement and dilation of the cervix.

Prevalence of teenage pregnancy

The Thai government has undertaken measures to inform the nation's youth about the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and unplanned pregnancy.

S1ngles

As a result of the pregnancy of actress Maria Solomou during the end of the very first season, her character Rania was rewritten as also getting pregnant.

Savings Accounts and Health in Pregnancy Grant Act 2010

The Savings Accounts and Health in Pregnancy Grant Act 2010 (c. 36) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Societal attitudes towards abortion

Uruguay: A May 2007 Factum/El Espectador survey asked Uruguayans about a law under debate in their country's Senate, which would legalize abortion within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, finding that 61% support the law, 27% oppose the law, and 12% are unsure about it.

Tanya Alexander

Her departure from Moonbase Alpha was chronicled in the Powys Media novel, Space: 1999 The Forsaken by John Kenneth Muir (featuring a foreword by Prentis Hancock) in which the character reveals an unplanned pregnancy and fears that she will be have to have an abortion in light of the ban on new births on Alpha (i.e. Alpha Child, The Exiles); a small group of Alphans mutinies to settle with her on a habitable planet, led by Paul Morrow.

The Guy's Guide to Surviving Pregnancy, Childbirth and the First Year of Fatherhood

The Guy’s Guide to Surviving Pregnancy, Childbirth and the First Year of Fatherhood is a parenting book written by Michael R. Crider.

The Joy of Pregnancy

The Joy of Pregnancy is an award-winning guide to pregnancy and childbirth, written by Tori Kropp and published by The Harvard Common Press in April 2008.

Tom Cunningham

Dodger Savage (Danny Mac) gets a call about it so he sends his father Patrick Blake (Jeremy Sheffield) who knows about Sienna's fake pregnancy, down to check on it.

Triple spiral

According to Uriel's Machine by Knight and Lomas (2003), the triple spiral may represent the nine-month period of human pregnancy, since the sun takes a fourth of a year to go from the celestial equator (an equinox) to extreme north or south declination (a solstice), and vice versa.


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