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    Bed rest during pregnancy could worsen risk for premature birth, study shows

    New research is raising fresh concern that an age-old treatment for troubled pregnancies - bed rest - doesn't seem to prevent premature birth, and might even worsen that risk.Doctors have known for years that there's no good evidence that bed rest offers any benefit for certain pregnancy complications, and it can cause side effects in the mother, not to mention emotional and financial strain. Yet estimates suggest nearly 1 in 5 moms-to-be is told to cut her activity - ranging from quitting work to actually staying in bed all day - at some point during pregnancy.Now, spurred by the latest study, some specialists are issuing a call for strict studies to finally settle the controversy - and until then, for doctors not to assume that a prescription to take it easy can't hurt."Bed rest is misperceived as an inexpensive, innocuous, logical recommendation," Dr. Joseph Biggio Jr. of the University of Alabama at Birmingham wrote in the latest issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology , a journal read by...

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      A California woman may have broken a world record when she gave birth a set of triplets who collectively weigh more than 20 pounds.Brittany Deen gave birth to triple...

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    4. 23 Doctors Help Deliver Healthy Quintuplets

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    5. Mom suffering from rare disorder gives birth to triplets

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    8. Premature Calif. Quadruplets Heading Home for Holidays

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    9. High Five! Arizona Woman Delivers Quintuplets

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    10. Cystic Fibrosis Patient Defies Odds, Gives Birth to Triplets

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    11. Family reunites after birth of quintuplets

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    12. Nevada Soldier Back in U.S. After Wife Gives Birth to Rare Quadruplets

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      Mary Ann Darling Fischer, who gave birth to the U.S.'s first known surviving quintuplets in 1963 in an event that brought intense media interest in her family life, ...

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    3. California Couple Ready to Take Quadruplets Home

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    4. Mom with rare autoimmune disorder thanks doctors who delivered her triplets

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    5. Rare quintuplets born at Dallas hospital

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      A new mother in the U.K. spoke recently of her joy at giving birth to two sets of identical twins — beating odds of 70 million to one.Sharon Turner, 36, was stunned ...

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