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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.
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I think she probably needs mandatory bed-rest for at least the next 3.5 years.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Fayiz and Aeson, his brothers, and the village doctor believed he had swallowed too much sea water and needed bed-rest.
The Pilgrimage 2009
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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
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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.
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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.
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