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  • Maybe a select group of women need to be high-fived, or urged to rethink their lives, or given enforced bed-rest, or something in between.

    Sex surveys, honor, and Brandon Davies's girlfriend 2011

  • I think she probably needs mandatory bed-rest for at least the next 3.5 years.

    Hillary Clinton nursing fractured elbow 2009

  • Sick Comforter: The nurse's aid can learn to make a tray to take to someone in the family who is in bed-rest, and learn to make a bed with a person still in it.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • Sick Comforter: The nurse's aid can learn to make a tray to take to someone in the family who is in bed-rest, and learn to make a bed with a person still in it.

    Learning to Be a Home Keeper 2009

  • Probably the most important aspect of that study (that you seem to have missed with your claim about required bed-rest) is that mothers passed on the virus to their babies and this could have been avoided by administration of 'rich world' antivirals (no bed rest required).

    Over reach EliRabett 2010

  • I called many friends while I was on periods of bed-rest and had various treatments during the time I had left of maternity leave.

    » Changing Gears After Maternity Leave: Melissa and Melodie Strocel.com 2009

  • Fayiz and Aeson, his brothers, and the village doctor believed he had swallowed too much sea water and needed bed-rest.

    The Pilgrimage 2009

  • ZalmanFeardie: Unless you're walking 12 hours/day, I doubt your going to see much change in fitness, unless you've been on bed-rest.

    Save Money With No-Equipment Exercises | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • In the eighteenth century, it was a dreadful recurrent disease requiring months of agonising bed-rest with swollen painful joints – a nightmare for someone as sociable as Blamire.

    Susanna Blamire ( 1747-94) 2008

  • I'm currently participating in the NASA-sponsored bed-rest study, and so far I haven't been out of bed in five and a half weeks.

    NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: April 2006 Archives 2006

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