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She learned the word "doula" from a woman in Greece who told her that it means female slave and Raphael thought the word slave fitted the role of a woman who helps a nursing mother by taking on other work in the home; Raphael then used the term in her 1966 dissertation on cross-cultural practices of breast-feeding [6] before making the term ...
For one of them, her doula taught Barker and her husband how to do a car birth just in case the baby came during the two-and-a-half-hour drive. One reason Barker opted to use a midwife was that many doctors and hospitals won’t allow women to give birth vaginally after a C-section, due to a widespread misconception that a vaginal birth after ...
Paraphilias are sexual interests in objects, situations, or individuals that are atypical. The American Psychiatric Association, in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fifth Edition (DSM), draws a distinction between paraphilias (which it describes as atypical sexual interests) and paraphilic disorders (which additionally require the experience of distress, impairment in functioning, and/or ...
A doula (left) applying pressure to a pregnant woman during labor. A doula (/ ˈ d uː l ə /; from Ancient Greek δούλα 'female slave'; Greek pronunciation:) is a non-medical professional who provides guidance for the service of others and who supports another person (the doula's client) through a significant health-related experience, such as childbirth, miscarriage, induced abortion or ...
Abortion doulas provide emotional support to women going through the medical procedure. Kimya Forouzan shares what she does during a shift to help patients. 'I’m An Abortion Doula—Here’s Why ...
Female submission or femsub is an activity or relationship in which a woman submits to the direction of a sexual partner or has her body used sexually by or for the sexual pleasure of her partner. The expression is often associated with BDSM , where submission to such activity is usually voluntarily and consensual .
Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon by Frederic Leighton, c. 1869. In neo-Freudian psychology, the Electra complex, as proposed by Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) in his Theory of Psychoanalysis, [1] [2] is a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father.
Hilary Duff’s love for her husband Matthew Koma is only growing throughout her pregnancy. “A few nights away from the kids does a body good,” Duff, 36, wrote via Instagram Story on Sunday ...