The complete story of the lives of the Dionne Quintuplets, including their years at "Quintland," when they were wards of the Ontario government. (
http://www.cnn.com/US/9711/19/dionne.quints
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This website has extensive connections to other sites that have information about health and prenatal development. (
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/obgyn.html
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The Canadian Health Network provides evidence concerning risk to the child during pregnancy and lactation related to drugs, chemicals, disease, and environmental exposure. (
http://www.motherisk.org
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Health Canada site that describes the nature of fetal alcohol syndrome and provides links to sites with information about the syndrome. (
http://www.child.gov.ab.ca/whatwedo/fas/page.cfm?pg=index
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Examines the negative effects of smoking during pregnancy, secondhand smoke, and strategies for quitting smoking. (
http://pregnancy.miningco.com/health/pregnancy/library/weekly/aa111998.htm
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Discusses basic ideas about pregnancy and HIV, family-planning decisions, testing and counselling, drug treatments, and other related topics. (
http://www.hivpositive.com/f-Women/9-Pregnant/9-PregMenu.html
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The Canadian AIDS Society website has fact sheets on Women and HIV/AIDS, including prevention, treatment, support, and specific recommendations. (
http://www.cdnaids.ca
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The website of International Diabetes Institute has information on diabetes and pregnancy, including gestational diabetes mellitus. (
http://www.diabetes.com.au/home.htm
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A youth pregnancy fact sheet from Ontario's Maternal, Newborn, and Early Childhood Development Resources Centre. (
http://www.statcan.ca/english/kits/preg/preg3.htm
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The website of Womancare Midwives has information on services, birth, training, education, and related resources. (
http://www.midwives.on.ca/index.html
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Read about many different aspects of pregnancy. Links to a wide range of sites with information about pregnancy are provided. (
http://dmoz.org/Home/Family/Pregnancy/
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This website has extensive information about prenatal care, including fetal development, pregnancy resources, support groups, and many other topics. (
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/prenatalcare.html
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The Canadian Women's Health Network website provides information, resources, and strategies related to improving women's health. (
http://www.cwhn.ca
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A comprehensive list of frequently asked questions about pregnancy, birth, and related topics about becoming a mother answered by professionals. (
http://www.childbirth.org/articles/faqs.html
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Study various options in childbirth, including perineal massage, water birth, epidurals, birthing rooms, doulas, homebirth, and many other childbirth topics. (
http://www.childbirth.org/articles/labor/choices.html
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This article, written by a certified nurse-midwife, discusses the issues of a natural childbirth setting. (
http://www.babycenter.com/expert/pregnancy/childbirth/2266.html?CP_bid=
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Information for new dads about childbirth, fathers and postpartum depression, diaper changing, and what it means to be a father. (
http://kidsdirect.net/PD/fathers/tips.htm
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Read about birth order, children at birth, introducing a new baby to the family, preparing a toddler for the birth of a baby, and sibling rivalry. (
http://www.childbirthclass.com/siblings.htm
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Voices for Children promotes healthy lives for children and their families with issues, resources, and articles concerning the nurturing, protecting, and valuing of children. (
http://www.voicesforchildren.ca
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The website of the Intersex Society of North America, dedicated to ending shame, secrecy, and unwanted surgeries in intersex individuals. (
http://www.isna.org/
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Learn more about what Lamaze involves, what is taught in a Lamaze class, and find links to other sites with information about Lamaze. (
http://www.lamaze.com/
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Information on what to expect regarding labour, how to tell if it is really happening, how to time contractions, finding pain relief in labour, labour complications, and other related ideas. (
http://www.childbirth.org/articles/labor.html
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Study what caesarean childbirth involves, why caesarean rates have increased, benefits of this approach, risks of this approach, and psychological effects. (
http://www.childbirth.org/section/section.html
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A Health Canada document with extensive information on maternity and newborn care, with links to sources on nutrition during pregnancy, infant nutrition, and breastfeeding. (
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/preg-gros/index_e.html
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A complete glossary of topics providing health and medical information for mother and child, including reproduction, pregnancy, birth, postnatal period, and childhood illness. (
http://www.hon.ch/Dossier/MotherChild
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Extensive information about a variety of topics in neonatal research, including preterm infants, feeding, neonatal infection, massage therapy, non-nutritive sucking, pain, and other topics. (
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/cochraneneonatal/
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Study many different aspects of low-birthweight infants in this article, which provides causes and recommendations for research, prevention, and care on this topic. (
http://www.futureofchildren.org/information2826/information_show.htm?doc_id=79875
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This entire issue of The Future of Children is devoted to low birthweight. You can read all of the articles online at this site, which include analyses and recommendations and discussions of costs, preventing low birth weight, neonatal intensive care, and many more related topics. (
http://www.futureofchildren.org/pubs-info2825/pubs-info.htm?doc_id=79872
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Find out more about the benefits of massage therapy with high-risk infants. Touchpoints, a quarterly newsletter published by the Touch Research Institute, is available on this website. (
http://www.miami.edu/touch-research/home.html
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Covers emotions and depression, exercise, physical recovery, and many other aspects of postpartum adjustment. (
http://www.childbirth.org/articles/postpartum.html
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Read about what life is like for parents after the baby is born, coping with fatigue, emotions, exercise, support, and other postpartum topics (
http://www.childbirth.org/articles/postpartum.html
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