This article takes up and broadens the concept of ‘womb-envy’ from a bioenergetic perspective. Womb-envy describes felt, if unconscious, experience in men arising our incapacity to carry bear and, certain ways, nurture children. paper examines this phenomenon using somatopsychic lens illuminates impact feelings on personality development men’s relationships with women.

Robert Antoni’s Divina Trace has not yet found the wide readership that might be expected of winner Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, perhaps because it does conform to its readers’ expectations a Caribbean novel. And is particular relevance legacy indentureship and East Indian presence in Trinidad relationships among different ethnic groups on island through central concern with black madonna ficti...

If clinicians are to play a leading role in reducing risks to the fetus, they have to think outside the box. Improved pregnancy outcomes require that medical and health professionals, including midwives and nurses, work with others far beyond the confines of the antenatal clinic and the delivery room. For the WHO-estimated 200 million plus conceptions globally each year, mostly among disadvanta...

Life Magazine?s 1965 cover story ?Drama of Life Before Birth? featured photographs of embryos and fetuses taken by Swedish photojournalist Lennart Nilsson [4] to document the developmental stages [5] of a human embryo. Included in this article was the first published image of a living fetus [6] inside its mother?s womb [7]. Prior to this, embryos and fetuses were observed, studied, and photogra...

Endometriosis is small deposits of the womb lining that are located outside of the womb cavity. The most common place to find it is on the ovary, the back of the uterus and the ligamentous supports that hold the uterus in its normal position (uterosacral ligaments). It can also be found on the thin lining of the pelvic organs (the peritoneum), on the tubes, between the vagina and rectum (rectov...

Womb grammars, or WGs, are a failure-driven constraintbased parsing mechanism specifically developed for crosslanguage grammar engineering, whose main parsing operation consists of looking for failed constraints between pairs of daughters of a phrasal category. For instance, rather than rejecting those noun phrases where an adjective daughter precedes the noun daughter (a natural mistake for sa...

INTRODUCTION Women, their Offspring and iMproving lifestyle for Better cardiovascular health of both (WOMB) project is the follow-up of the LIFEstyle study, a randomised controlled trial in obese infertile women, and investigates the effects of a preconception lifestyle intervention on later health of women (WOMB women) and their children (WOMB kids). METHODS AND ANALYSIS Obese infertile wome...