Mary & Drew: I'd like to kick the person who wrote this definition square in the teeth.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

I'd like to kick the person who wrote this definition square in the teeth.

A Braxton Hicks contraction is defined by Taber's Medical dictionary as an intermittent, painless* contraction that may occur every 10 to 20 minutes after the first trimester of pregnancy.

*("Hahaha, yeah, write 'painless', Vinny. That way the broads won't be expectin' nothing'.")

1 comment:

Beth said...: Painless!! hahaha! Although I think yours are more like REAL contractions!; Thursday, April 01, 2010

Why not?

From a moral point of view, circumcision is permissible if, in accordance with therapeutic principles, it prevents a disease that cannot be countered in any other way.
-Pope Pius XII, 1952

Except when performed for strictly therapeutic medical reasons, directly intended amputations, mutilations, and sterilizations performed on innocent persons are against the moral law.
-Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2297

Neonatal male circumcision has no medical indication. It is a traumatic procedure performed without anaesthesia to remove a normal and healthy prepuce.
-Australian Academy of Pediatrics, 1996

The AAPS does not support or condone the practice of child circumcision.
-Australasian Academy of Pediatric Sciences, 1996

Circumcision of newborns should not be routinely performed.
-Canadian Pediatric Society, 1989

The British Association of Paediatric Surgeons advises that there is rarely a clinical indication for circumcision.
-2003

There are no valid medical indications for circumcision in the neonatal period.
-American Academy of Pediatrics, 1971