Pregnancy Bed Rest
Nearly 20 percent of pregnant women are prescribed some form of bed rest each year. If you have been prescribed bed rest, it means that your health care provider is concerned about a condition that may prevent you from carrying your baby to full term. While a period of bed rest can interrupt your routine, it may be helpful in carrying your pregnancy to full term.
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Pregnancy After Age 35
While most women enjoy healthy pregnancies and healthy babies, pregnancy and childbearing after age 35 does carry greater medical risks.
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Preparing for Pregnancy Before Conception
Caring for your health before you become pregnant called preconceptional care will help you learn about any risk factors and treat any medical problems that you may have before you become pregnant. Planning for your pregnancy before you conceive will help you make healthy decisions for you and your baby.
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Pain Relief Options During Childbirth
The way a contraction feels is different for each woman and may feel different from one pregnancy to the next. Labor contractions cause discomfort or a dull ache in your back and lower abdomen, along with pressure in the pelvis.
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Correct Posture and Body Mechanics During Pregnancy
Good posture during pregnancy involves training your body to stand, walk, sit and lie in positions where the least strain is placed on your back.
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Caring for Your Health After Delivery
After pregnancy first month of having a newborn at home can be quite overwhelming. You may feel like all of your time is focused on caring for your newborn, but don't forget to take care of yourself. Your baby needs you to be as healthy as you can be.
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Limiting Weight Gain During Pregnancy
Gaining the right amount of weight during pregnancy is a good sign. You should gain about 2 to 4 pounds during your first three months of pregnancy and 1 pound a week for the remainder of your pregnancy.
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Group B Streptococcus and Pregnancy
Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a common bacteria (germ) that is present in up to 40 percent of pregnant women. It can be detected during pregnancy by using a cotton swab to take samples of cells from the vagina, cervix, and rectum. Your doctor will test you for GBS late in your pregnancy, around week 35 to 37 of your pregnancy.
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Having A Healthy Pregnancy
Not all birth defects can be prevented, but a woman can take some actions that increase her chance of having a healthy baby. Many birth defects happen very early in pregnancy, sometimes before a woman even knows she is pregnant. Remember that about half of all pregnancies are unplanned.
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Fighting Birth Defects: Past, Present, and Future
The first step toward a healthy baby is good prenatal care that includes a pre pregnancy checkup and taking prenatal vitamins with folic acid and iron.
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Are You at Risk for Preterm Labor?
Because low birthweight, premature babies are more likely to have health problems than babies of normal weight, expectant women should know the following factors can lead to premature delivery and low birthweight: lack of prenatal care; use of alcohol, drugs, and/or cigarettes; and/or poor dental hygiene.
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Multivitamins During Pregnancy and After Birth Delay Progression of HIV In Women
Multivitamin supplements containing high doses of the vitamin B complex, as well as vitamins C and E, given to HIV infected women during pregnancy and for more than 5 years after they gave birth reduced the symptoms of AIDS, according to a study of Tanzanian women.
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Exercise Can Make Childbirth Faster and Easier
New study shows pelvic exercises can reduce the risk of prolonged labor. Do You want to make your birth giving experience faster and easier? Would you just love to avoid an arduous and prolonged second stage of labor? If so, just spend a few minutes a day doing some simple pelvic exercises beginning in your 20th week of pregnancy.
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Dying For A Change: Hair color and Your Pregnancy
If you're like many women, bleaching, dying, or highlighting your hair may be a regular part of your beauty regime. And if you're like most pregnant women, you probably have some hesitation or even a fear about continuing to color your hair while baby is in tow. Although research into the effects of hair coloring on baby's health are still somewhat limited,many experts now contend the dyes are most likely safe and that women needn't be afraid to color their world during pregnancy.
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Scientists Discover What Makes Human Embryo Attach to Uterus
Pregnancy: A UCSF-led research team has identified the first molecular step that allows a week-old human embryo to attach to the uterus. The finding is expected to provide a new tool to diagnose and treat infertility and early pregnancy loss, the scientists report.
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Women With Asthma at Risk for Pregnancy Complications
Women who suffer with asthma are at greater risk for preeclampsia, but only if their symptoms flare during pregnancy.
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Cesarean Section
A cesarean section is the surgical delivery of the baby through an abdominal incision.
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Morning Sickness: It's Not Easy Being Green
most if not all doctors consider morning sickness the sign of a healthy pregnancy, a tangible indication that tan embryo has firmly implanted itself in the uterine lining and is set to go.
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Smoking and Your Pregnancy
Women who smoke during pregnancy are at risk for premature birth, pregnancy complications, low birthweight infants, stillbirth, and a higher rate of infant mortality.
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Help I am Pregnant and an Addict
There are a lot of resources on the internet, in books, and from the medical community on the dangers of drug and alcohol use during pregnancy. However, there is not very much quality information on what you should do if you have a problem with alcohol or drugs and are pregnant. The simple answer is you need to quit. With all the treatment programs availabele; AA, treatment facilities, therapy, self-control, etc., why wouldn't a women be able to get help.
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Weight is Not a Factor Among Women Using Fertility Technologies to Become Pregnant
The Mayo Clinic study results on pregnancy paint a more encouraging picture for overweight women using fertility technologies.
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Are Vaginal Exams in Pregnancy Necessary?
Having a vaginal exam is more like an invasion into the most personal of all our belongings ourselves. However, let us take a look at Vaginal Exams on a more clinical level. There are definitely real reasons for Vaginal Exam during pregnancy.
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Natural Herbs and Vitamins During Pregnancy
Although herbs are natural, not all herbs are safe to take during pregnancy.
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19 and Pregnant
My whole life changed with the realization of my being pregnant. Teen pregnancy Symptoms.
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First Time Pregnancy
Life always has an interesting way of unfolding to give us signs to make the right choices and decisions.
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Morning Sickness: What To Pack for The Journey
Here are few ideas and suggestions this most common pregnancy symptom, but you should personalize your own survival kit once you discover what your needs are.
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Incompetent Cervix
Incompetent cervix accounts for 20-25% of all second trimester losses. Many women do not even know they have an incompetent cervix until after they have experienced 2 or more losses in the second trimester.
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Mother Nature Never Had Morning Sickness
For women, looking for a reduction in their nausea and vomiting, the use of ginger in early pregnancy will reduce the severity of pregnancy symptoms.
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Drinking And Your Pregnancy
Do not drink alcohol when you are pregnant. Why? Because when you drink alcohol, so does your baby. Think about it. Everything you drink, your baby also drinks.
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