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Considering A Home Birth? Some Reasons To Do So
Parents strive to connect with their unborn child and also try to do the best they can for a health development while still in the womb as well as at the time of birth. The home birth could be a wonderful and intimate option.
Couples recognize that pregnancy can be a time to build on a [...]
It May Be Possible To Predict C Section Requirement
A new test has been developed in Sweden, which may help predict whether a woman will need a C section or not. This offers hope for all those women, who labor hard and long in the hope of a natural or vaginal delivery, and then be subjected to a C section in the end.
In many [...]
Researchers Studying Morning Sickness Relief
Among the most common of pregnancy symptoms, which can occur at any time of the day or at any time during the pregnancy, can be mild for some, but may be very severe for many women.
Pregnancy sickness is often shrugged off as something that happens to everyone and a normal part of carrying a child, [...]
Herpes Drug May Be Safe In Early Pregnancy
There is always the tendency to err on the side of caution when it comes to taking any kind of medication or pharmaceutical drugs during pregnancy for the apprehension that it may result in birth defects in the baby. Now, however, research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association says that certain antiviral [...]
Antibiotics Advised 1 Hour Before C-Sections
According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, infection is one of the common complications that occur due to Cesarean section deliveries, in an estimated 10 to 40% cases. This risk is less than 3% for natural deliveries and there is now an attempt to redress this imbalance.
Whereas antibiotics are usually given to the [...]
Health Visitors Can Help ‘Stop Baby Blues’
Psychological support for new mothers is very important according to a new study and when support from a specially trained health visitor is made available, this helps to keep away the baby blues.
Visits from Specially trained health visitors can greatly help new mothers since they are able to offer psychological support and also help to [...]
Music For Your Unborn Baby
These Bellybuds, Pregnancy Belly phones could be a great thing for those of us who know that music can benefit even the unborn baby.
Many mothers to be are able to tell that their baby seems to quiet down and become calm upon hearing music and even when in the womb, may display a preference for [...]
Link Found Between Schizophrenia And Exposure To Flu
Recent research has found that those babies, whose mothers had the flu while pregnant, are more likely to have schizophrenia later in life.
It was explained thus by Temple University psychologist Lauren Ellman – when a woman catches flu when pregnant, she produces certain immune proteins in response to the flu, and this raises the exposure [...]
Want To Get Pregnant? Just Relax
You may have heard that trying too hard can be stressful and may sabotage your chances at getting pregnant and now there is scientific evidence to support that theory. A new study states that high stress levels reduce chances of getting pregnant.
According to the lead author of the study, Dr Germaine Buck Louis, director of [...]
Pregnancy After Miscarriage – Sooner May Be Better, Says Study
A miscarriage or pregnancy loss can be very traumatic, physically as well as mentally, and couples want to try to get pregnant soon after the loss. And now a study conducted at the University of Aberdeen has suggested that getting pregnant within six months after a miscarriage is recommended.
The study found that those women, who [...]
