# childbirth - Wednesday 21 February, 2018
Serena Williams has opened up about a recent life-threatening experience.
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# childbirth - Wednesday 24 January, 2018
Niamh had a vaginal mesh operation 10 years ago and says even though she is only 58, she now feels like she is 90.
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# childbirth - Friday 17 November, 2017
Today is World Prematurity Day.
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# childbirth - Wednesday 19 July, 2017
Turns out the things I’d learned from TV sitcoms weren’t true, writes Chrissie Russell.
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# childbirth - Sunday 5 February, 2017
“Some people think it’s new age, hippy dippy. It’s anything other than that. It’s very practical, down to earth.”
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# childbirth - Thursday 24 November, 2016
There had been a row over who would govern the new €150 million development.
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# childbirth - Friday 6 May, 2016
Women everywhere: “Er, pardon?”
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# childbirth - Saturday 23 April, 2016
Mothers and babies are all doing well.
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# childbirth - Thursday 17 March, 2016
A new report into maternity services says there are a number of reasons.
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# childbirth - Saturday 6 February, 2016
There are over 140 million girls and woman across the world with cut genitals and this dangerous and painful practice continues today.
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# childbirth - Thursday 22 October, 2015
Dan Oakes worked as a project manager building skyscrapers. But when the bust came along, he decided to retrain as a midwife.
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# childbirth - Friday 21 August, 2015
To the left, to the left, to the right, to the right.
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# childbirth - Monday 3 August, 2015
Baby Eva’s parents will have a good story to tell her when she’s older.
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# childbirth - Wednesday 22 July, 2015
The High Court approved a €1.9 million settlement today.
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# childbirth - Thursday 25 June, 2015
Take a moment to read her story.
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# childbirth - Tuesday 9 June, 2015
Sean Rowlette has spoken of how he and his children have come to terms with his wife’s death during childbirth in 2013.
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# childbirth - Sunday 24 May, 2015
Maternity staff are being asked to deal with far, far more births than they can safely handle in hospitals up and down the country.
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# childbirth - Monday 19 January, 2015
The woman initially underwent FGM in Somalia at the age of six. Her stitches tore during childbirth.
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# childbirth - Wednesday 14 January, 2015
When you think of ‘depression’, feelings of sadness and anxiety might come to mind – but anger is powerful (often overlooked) emotion.
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# childbirth - Wednesday 10 December, 2014
Though the presence of a skilled childbirth specialist can help.
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# childbirth - Thursday 6 November, 2014
The government has announced a redress scheme today. Here are the victims’ stories.
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That’s according to a survivors group SOS, which describes its time limits as “draconian”.
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# childbirth - Saturday 25 October, 2014
Nowadays it’s seen as quite normal to have kids in your late 30s… but many women still want to start a family earlier.
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# childbirth - Tuesday 21 October, 2014
The question of women who are pregnant or parenting in prison is a complex one – and their number is rising.
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# childbirth - Saturday 4 October, 2014
The procedure was somewhat controversial because the womb was taken from a live donor.
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# childbirth - Friday 26 September, 2014
The three deaths have occurred since the scheme was announced in July.
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# childbirth - Tuesday 2 September, 2014
Their reactions are exactly what you’d expect.
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# childbirth - Wednesday 13 August, 2014
The 25-year-old had her passport returned to her today but she must go back to Australia for a hearing in October.
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# childbirth - Thursday 24 July, 2014
The human rights committee also said that those who carried out the procedures without consent should be prosecuted, where possible.
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# childbirth - Wednesday 2 July, 2014
There will be no closure with money – only with finding out where their child’s remains are.
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# childbirth - Tuesday 1 July, 2014
The Government has said that the payments will be ex-gratia – in other words, no blame admitted.
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# childbirth - Wednesday 21 May, 2014
Though little research has been done in Ireland on postpartum depression past the 12 month mark, one expert said increased resourcing for public health nurses is key to tackling the problem.
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# childbirth - Saturday 10 May, 2014
42,000 women in Ireland are diagnosed each year with a mental health illness and emotional trauma surrounding pregnancy and childbirth.
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# childbirth - Wednesday 23 April, 2014
I noticed the consultant becoming quieter and more serious. ‘Have you ever heard of anencephaly?’ he said.
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# childbirth - Tuesday 15 April, 2014
Women in private hospitals are far more likely to choose to have a caesarean delivery.
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# childbirth - Tuesday 25 March, 2014
The data was released by the HSE to AIMS Ireland, which said it has queries about the accuracy of the figures.
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# childbirth - Tuesday 11 March, 2014
The survivors have brought their search for justice to the United Nations Committee Against Torture.
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# childbirth - Monday 3 March, 2014
Reliance on ex gratia redress schemes should be read against a backdrop of Government reluctance to allow these victims – and others like them – to speak on their own terms about the recent past, writes Máiréad Enright.
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# childbirth - Thursday 16 January, 2014
A Dublin hospital has secured a court order to withdraw life-support from a severely brain-damaged baby whose his young mother died after delivery. As the child’s parents were unmarried, the father was not deemed the legal guardian.
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# childbirth - Tuesday 7 January, 2014
The onesie – everyone’s friend.
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