The mood tonight is tense but expectant.
It might not just be expectant mothers who have to pay attention to their lifestyle.
Moreover, just because expectant parents are able to think of the fetus as a baby does not mean it actually is one, and that abortion is the same as the taking of an actual life, rather than a fantasized one.
But if just encouraging expectant couples to tie to the knot is an insufficient response to the downscale social crisis, putting too much faith in the "progress" offered by delayed childbearing also seems like a mistake.
"You can reduce infant mortality hugely just by giving expectant mothers access to the internet.
It was after Mia was born that I thought I had some sense of what I was getting into, but just like any expectant parent, my vague intellectual understanding just meant that I really didn't have a clue.
A study from the USA National Birth Defects Prevention Study (1997-2000) suggesthatthat just over 30% of expectant mothers moved house [ 4].
Harvard is actually focusing on measuring the physiological response to meditation -- not just mental -- with the expectant result that skillful meditators will feel, look, taste, screw, eat, sleep, dream, love, work, move and smile better than people who don't, because obviously.
The DVD does not exist as yet but they were particularly enthusiastic about it because they felt it was something they could watch together, alone, with other expectant parents, view just specific sections and do so at a time and place that was convenient to them.
Well, maybe just at first, as a quiet, expectant rustle could be heard in the pews.
