Its carved visage had become -- solely through its loss -- a rare totem of maternal love, a saint's venerated bone.
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The son and grandson of immigrants (his father was Hungarian, his maternal grandfather a Jew from Salonica), he advocated affirmative action to build ladders out of the banlieues.
The Triolet that can be pieced together from fragments of interviews and letters is less offputting: what comes across is a maternal, if at times weary, devotion to a fractious, emotionally insecure husband.
The children kept their eyes fixed on the psychiatrist, who adopted a maternal attitude, though not for long, since she soon noticed, as she later explained to Pereda, a malevolent intention in their gaze, a mischievous plan formulated, so she felt, in a language full of consonants, shrieks, and resentment.
My genetic heritage had flaws: My father had a triple bypass at age 66 and my maternal grandfather died of a heart attack at age 56.
Mrs Johnson Sirleaf inherited her light skin colour from her maternal grandfather, a German trader.
But he finds tantalising evidence that she may have been deprived of maternal love as a child.
The tabloid scrutiny of her life, always present, was particularly hurtful then, and talking about it brings out a maternal ferocity.
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Supporters say the law, which took 14 years to pass, will reduce poverty and maternal mortality in a country with the highest birth rate in the region.
This distinction may be acceptable to women who marry men with older children, but it bothered me because for years I spent every other weekend playing with her, cooking for her, and doing every other activity of a maternal caregiver.
With a maternal ferocity stronger than any she could recall, she had swooped down upon that tremulous thought and crushed it, almost bellowing her reassurance that he was safe and always would be as long as he let her or his father or Mrs.
Breastfeeding remains a key component of the strategy, called 'Improving Maternal and Infant Nutrition: A Framework for Action'.
In their paper, the authors said there was a proven link between advancing maternal age and increased risk of complications during pregnancy - and a strong link with increased risk of stillbirth and neonatal death.
As a consequence of not getting prenatal medical care she lost her life to maternal mortality in the hands of a traditional birth attendant.
For instance, breast-fed babies get a shot of maternal antibodies along with mother's milk.
Born into great wealth (her maternal grandparents owned Russeks, a fancy Fifth Avenue department store), Arbus endured a lonely childhood with a depressive mother and a workaholic, womanising father.
Ezra Susser, an epidemiologist at Columbia, realised that a famine experienced by the Dutch at the end of the second world war had created an ideal set of subjects for a study of maternal malnutrition and filial psychopathology.
These samples, which remain in good condition after more than 30 years, are now the subject of intense study, because they are a snapshot of maternal health at the time of pregnancies whose babies are now well into adulthood.
States where poverty exceeded 18 percent, the immigrant population exceeded 15 percent and the C-section rate exceeded 33 percent had 77 percent, 33 percent and 21 percent higher risks of maternal mortality, respectively, a 2007 report by Gopal K. Singh of the Health Resources and Services Administration indicated.
Raised by his maternal grandparents, Dr Murray proved a hard-working student, eventually following his absent father, also a doctor, to the US - where he enrolled at Texas Southern University.
Hafsat runs a conditional cash transfer project for the state, where poor pregnant women are encouraged to use available healthcare facilities for safer pregnancies in a bid to reduce maternal mortality rates.
When I took office, I launched the Presidential Initiative for Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood, a project that I hope will reverse the poor access to reproductive health services for women in my country.
Relied on by generations of Indians for tilling fields, dairy products and dung fuel, the cow is regarded by Hindus as gau mata, or maternal figure, and has had a long-standing central role in India's religious rituals.
So while the HPV vaccine by itself is probably far too expensive to justify, if it's coupled with a larger agenda, laying the groundwork for decreasing maternal mortality and improving child health by reaching these girls before they become mothers, then perhaps we have a real breakthrough.
BPAmoco is helping to finance a child-nutrition and maternal-health programme in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam.
My maternal grandfather came to Plymouth from Italy a century ago to work in what was then a bustling industrial center.
In the maternal samples, they measured testosterone, a hormone, and cotinine, a breakdown product of nicotine that shows a person's level of smoking.
For Stachel, the solar suitcase is only part of a bigger mission to improve maternal health care and lower mortality rates in developing countries.
Because humans have such long childhoods, and are so dependent on parental (particularly maternal) care during that period, a woman who kept reproducing until she died would leave a lot of unviable orphans behind her.
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