Archive for May, 2009
How To Deal With Cracked Feet When You Are Pregnant?
Pregnancy will affect many parts of your body. Your stomach is getting larger and your legs and feet may be beginning to swell.
You may have started to walk funny with a waddle. As if you did not have enough things to deal with already you now have to deal with feet that [...]
New Hope In The Baffling Fight Against Preeclampsia
A new discovery in Israel of a placental protein 13 (pp13) is thought to be the first bio marker and will be able to test for the possibility of pre eclampsia in pregnant women.
Developed at Diagnostic Technologies PP13 is to undergo more thorough testing in Austria although it is already available, [...]
How To Care For Your Newborn Baby During Post Natal Development Period?
Now that you have gone through nine months of your body changing and developing a newborn baby, you are now left with the task of caring for your beautiful child.
You have been released from the hospital and you and your baby will be going home to start a brand new life.
It [...]
Predicting Pregnancy Complications Using Genetics
There are a number of pregnancy complications that can severely impact the health of a pregnant mother and her baby, but which medical science has not been able to predict with any level of reliability.
These include pre-eclampsia, miscarriage, premature birth, and fetal growth restriction, a condition where the fetus does not [...]
Finding Out Whether It Is Twins Or Not When You Are Pregnant
You may have always dreamed about having twins.
Now you are pregnant, and you are hoping that this is the case.
If you have been pregnant before then you know what to expect about body changes.
The symptoms that you have been feeling while you are pregnant seem unusual to you.
Some women are able to [...]
Preventing Postpartum Weight Gain Begins During Pregnancy
A new study has found that the choices you make during your pregnancy can help determine whether or not you gain weight during the 12 month postpartum period.
In the study, pregnant women who did the best job of avoiding weight gain were the ones who were given dietary counseling along with [...]
What You Need To Know About Having Sex While You Are Pregnant?
When you are pregnant your body will be going through several changes. You will feel changes that are both physical and mental.
Sometimes your feelings could be influenced by your personal history and your sexual experience.
Having a large stomach may affect the way you look at your body and you may [...]
Connection Found Between Smoking While Pregnant And Children’s Smoking
It has been discovered by a team of researchers from the University of Arizona that smoking during pregnancy will more likely mean that offspring will start smoking by the age of twenty.
Furthermore continued smoking while children were very young had similar results but that all changed once they became [...]
Easing Labor Pain Without Drugs
When it comes time to deliver her baby, a woman has traditionally had only two options for pain management.
She could opt for unmedicated childbirth, or she could choose medication.
Now, a third option is possible: using transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, or TENS, to relieve pain.
A recent study found limited evidence that a TENS [...]
Pregnancy Outcomes Tied To Type Of Work
The type of work you do can affect your pregnancy outcome.
Women who are pregnant and who work in jobs that are physically demanding, or who work in jobs that have long or irregular hours may be more likely to have a baby who is underweight, or to deliver their baby prematurely. [Premature Birth]
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