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Listeria is a bacteria that can cause pregnancy complications, it's the reason for the general recommendation to heat lunch meat and avoid soft cheese while pregnant. In the last several years, it has been found in so many other foods, those not typically thought of as "risky" for pregnant people to consume. For the latest, see the list attached.

Mann Packing Recalls Minimally Processed Vegetable Products Because of Possible Health Risk Mann Packing of Salinas, California is voluntarily recalling minimally processed vegetable products listed below because they may be contaminated with listeria monocytogenes. Mann Packing is issuing this recall in response to a single positive result found during random sampling by the Canadian Food...

"women ... with low-risk pregnancies may be better off staying out of the hospital. Why? Because the significant risks of over-intervention in hospitals, such as unnecessary C-sections, may be far more likely (and therefore more dangerous) for patients than the risks of under-intervention at home or in birth centers...for women in much of the U.S., the choice is often the hospital or nothing."

Let's change this!

Harvard Obstetrician Speaks on Safety of Giving Birth at Hospitals Much of the developed world offers only one pragmatic alternative: the hospital

One of the many drugs used for induction of labor. Make sure you have the facts!

Cytotec: What Your Doctor Isn't Telling You Cytotec is a drug created for the prevention of stomach ulcers, but is used off-label for on women during birth.