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Midwife

The following articles have been tagged with "Midwife":

Pass the 'mother cake': giving birth in Sweden

Lifestyle: 22 Feb 12
With Crown Princess Victoria's set to give birth any day now, contributor Patrick Reilly shares the linguistic perils that can accompany expat fathers' first trip to a Swedish maternity ward. READ »

Agency to probe doc who broke baby’s neck

National: 10 Feb 12
A doctor in central Sweden who broke the neck of an infant during a 55 hour long delivery, is being investigated by the National Board of Health and Welfare. READ »

Pregnancy apps slammed for bad advice

Business & Money: 11 Oct 11
Two free mobile phone apps offering pregnancy advice have been criticised by a Swedish infant health group for offering information that could put unborn children at risk. READ »

Global activists receive 'Alternative Nobel' prize

Society: 29 Sep 11
A Chadian lawyer, an international agricultural rights group, a US safe childbirth advocate and a Chinese engineer will share the 2011 Right Livelihood Award, often dubbed the "Alternative Nobel," organisers said Thursday. READ »

Pregnant mothers in for a long wait: report

Science & Technology: 20 Aug 11
Pregnant women in the south of Sweden may have to wait more than half their pregnancy for all the required tests and screens to be administered, according to a report in Swedish media. READ »

Contraceptive coil miss causes 25 years of pain

National: 13 Jul 11
Chronic pain, bleeding and a miscarriage – these were all ailments that befell a woman from the north of Sweden, caused by a forgotten contraceptive coil lodged in her body for a quarter of a century. READ »

Swedish Gaza flotilla ship sabotaged: report

National: 28 Jun 11
The ship scheduled to carry the Swedish activists in the Ship to Gaza flotilla at the end of the week has been sabotaged in its berth in Greece, the organisation reported on Monday. READ »

Mankell to sail on next Gaza aid flotilla

National: 25 May 11
Swedish thriller writer Henning Mankell has been confirmed as one of the participants in the next international aid flotilla seeking to bring aid to Gaza at the end of June. READ »

Swedish midwife re-used needle from HIV patient

Science & Technology: 17 Feb 11
A midwife at a Stockholm-area hospital used the same needle to treat a new mother as she had for another HIV positive patient. READ »

Swedish doctor assaulted 'for being a man'

National: 19 Nov 10
A doctor at Örebro University Hospital in central Sweden was attacked and kicked recently by the relatives of a critical ill woman who had just given birth, because they objected to him being male. READ »

Sweden Democrats slam unions over freeze out

Politics: 29 Sep 10
Active Sweden Democrats will not be allowed to be members in one of Sweden's main healthcare professionals unions, the chair of the labour group said on Wednesday, prompting claims from the party that they are "politically corrupt." READ »

Mother told to clean own room after caesarean

National: 22 Aug 10
Mother-of-two Elin Andersson has highlighted staffing shortage problems at a maternity ward in Sundsvall in northern Sweden after she was asked to clean out her own hospital room just two days after giving birth by caesarean section. READ »

Chlamydia helps young men feel more 'manly': Swedish study

Society: 22 Aug 09
Young men who contract sexually transmitted diseases often view their afflictions as an affirmation of their manhood, a new Swedish study shows. READ »

Swedish surgeon forgets swabs in sewn up mum

National: 10 May 09
A Swedish doctor has been cautioned after forgetting to remove two cloth swabs when sewing up a woman who had recently given birth at Sahögrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg. READ »

Medics upset over 'gender-based' abortion

Science & Technology: 16 Feb 09
A doctor in Sweden has asked health authorities for clarification after a woman twice had abortions carried out upon learning her fetuses were girls. READ »

Swedish teen girls have more sex with one another

Society: 30 May 08
More Swedish teenage girls than boys have had sex with someone of the same gender, according to a new dissertation from the Sahlgrenska Academy in Gothenburg. READ »

Pregnant British woman 'in hiding in Sweden'

Society: 1 Jan 08
A pregnant woman who disappeared from her home in England last week could have come to Sweden to give birth to her child - to avoid having to give it up to British social services. READ »

Foreign mothers at risk over midwife visits

Society: 11 Aug 07
Pregnant women who were born outside of Sweden visit their midwives later and less frequently than Swedish women. That puts both the mother and the baby at risk, new research has shown. READ »

Pregnant in Sweden - I'll drink to that

Lifestyle: 11 Jul 07
While recently awaiting the arrival of a new baby, Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius found herself not so much restricted by her bulging belly as by the opinions of those around her - especially when it came to alcohol consumption. READ »

Jesus born in Swedish taxi

Society: 6 Dec 06
A Swedish family got value for money when their helpful taxi driver doubled as a midwife and delivered them a new brother and son. "We will call him Jesus," said the father. READ »

Many Swedish women drink while pregnant

Science & Technology: 9 Nov 06
Twelve percent of Swedish women drink alcohol for the duration of their pregnancies, according to new research being presented today. Some drink enough to damage their babies. READ »

Aborted foetuses given secret memorials

Science & Technology: 22 Aug 06
Foetuses aborted at Swedish hospitals have been routinely cremated and buried in a memorial grave without the knowledge of their mothers, it has been reported. READ »


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