It is a traditional gift on other auspicious occasions, such as the birth of a child.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

A published report says the genetic changes could be linked to stress levels during this method of giving birth.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

He says there are a number of simple, low-cost interventions that can improve the chances of a full-term birth.

VOA: special.2009.10.26

His group and the World Health Organization recently published a report called "The Global and Regional Toll of Preterm Birth."

VOA: special.2009.10.19

Her mother, Katharine Martha Houghton, was a great supporter of women's rights issues including the right to birth control.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

It is a story about the beauty of birth, the wonder of new life.

VOA: special.2010.01.09

When a baby's head is stuck in the birth canal for an extended period of time, it cuts off the blood supply to the woman's surrounding organs.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation,under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people,for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

VOA: special.2009.11.12

At the clinic, HIV-positive pregnant women receive the necessary medication and care to give birth to a child free of HIV.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

He scored a goal while representing the nation of his birth in the Central American championships.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

In the Paris suburb of Bobigny, a plaque was unveiled honoring his 1959 birth there.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Israel erected the wall to stop a wave of suicide bombers, but Bethlehem Mayor Victor Batarseh says the town of Jesus' birth has become a prison.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Almost half of the women living in 68 countries of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia give birth without a midwife, doctor or a skilled birth attendant.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

Much has changed since that time. Sobriety,his marriage to actress Nicole Kidman and the birth of their eight-month-old daughter,Sunday Rose, gave him a new perspective on life.

VOA: standard.2009.04.19

The University of North Carolina School of Medicine conducted a study that shows that by training local birth attendants in a method promoted by the World Health Organization, the number of still births was reduced by about 30 percent.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11