Top tips to minimize morning sickness
/Up to 85% of expectant mothers may experience morning sickness. The term “morning sickness” is a misnomer.
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Dangers of binge drinking before pregnancy
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By now everyone in the civilized world knows you shouldn’t drink alcohol, let alone binge-drink, while pregnant. But new research out of Rutgers University raises the abstention bar even higher. Scientists there have determined that mothers who binge drink before they become pregnant may be more likely to have children with high blood sugar and other changes in glucose function that increase their risk of developing diabetes as adults.
Read MoreLab-Grown Womb Reveals Secrets
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They’re called “organoids,” miniature functioning models of organs grown in vitro that are complete with realistic and working micro-anatomies. As the techniques for creating them have become more sophisticated, their value to the scientific community – and to your future health – has grown appreciably.
Read MoreWhy Women's Fertility Declines with Age
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All women of a certain age are keenly aware that their fertility begins to decline significantly around age 35, but have you ever stopped to wonder why? Or if there was anything that could be done about it.
Read MoreFrequent Urination in Women – What Can You Do?
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Frequent urination is a problem most often associated with older men, but it can also affect women, of any age. Frequent urination can have a genuinely harsh effect on your quality of life, whether it causes you to lose sleep at night or prevent you from going out and about for fear of being too far from a bathroom for too long.
Read MoreWhat every woman must share with her gynecologist
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A trip to the gynecologist is usually not at the top of most women’s list of things to do. You’re flat on your back, feet in stirrups with your private parts being inspected by someone you mainly see once a year. But that yearly visit to the gynecologist is a very important part of a woman’s health making it imperative to not hold back on certain health issues.
Read MoreUnexpected signs of a stroke in women
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The third leading cause of death in women is a stroke. Yet few women realize there are gender-specific signs of a stroke putting them in a unique situation for certain risk factors. Having a stroke is not always a clearly recognizable event. For women, it can even be more difficult to diagnosis and to realize what is going on before it’s too late.
Read MoreHandling Low Progesterone
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Progesterone is a key hormone in the female body. It regulates your menstrual cycle, and prepares your womb each month for pregnancy by thickening the lining of your uterus to accommodate a fertilized egg. If no fertilized egg shows up, your progesterone levels drop, menstruation returns, and it's business as usual.
Read MorePredicting Postpartum Depression
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Depression following pregnancy, commonly known as postpartum depression (PPD), is a mood disorder, a type of clinical depression, causing crying episodes, anxiety, sadness, low energy, changes in sleeping/eating patterns, reduced desire for sex, and irritability.
Read MoreMorning Sickness: Blessing or Curse?
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Tough to believe, but doctors still don't know exactly what causes morning sickness, that nausea and vomiting that plagues pregnant women in the first few months of pregnancy. But what they do know, is that morning sickness is a Good Thing.
Read MoreWhy women are more likely to get UTIs
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Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are much more common in women than men. Over 50% of women will have at least one UTI in her lifetime with up to 30% to 40% of UTIs recurring within 6 months after the initial episode.
Read MoreThe best ways to lose weight post-pregnancy
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It’s called “baby weight” and for a good reason. It’s the weight many new moms may retain after the baby has arrived that she gained during pregnancy. Most women will lose most of the weight that was packed on during the pregnancy, but there often is those last few stubborn pounds that have a tendency to stick around.
Read MorePregnancy & Morning Sickness
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A new study finds women who experience nausea and vomiting associated with morning sickness were 50 to 75 percent less likely to have a miscarriage.
Read MoreSex after pregnancy: How soon is too soon?
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Any woman will tell you after just having delivered a baby the size of a football, the last thing on her mind is sex.
Read MoreIs it safe to exercise during pregnancy?
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Regular exercise during pregnancy can improve your posture and decrease backaches and fatigue.
Read MoreWhat is Hyperemesis gravidarum?
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Having HG throughout the pregnancy can result in complications like gastric ulcers, esophageal bleeding, and overall malnutrition because of consistent vomiting.
Read MoreCan being overweight affect your pregnancy?
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Research has shown that more women are giving birth at older ages, are obese, or have certain health conditions like high blood pressure and diabetes. There are also more young women with serious conditions, like congenital heart defects, who are surviving and having children.
Read MorePregnancy and the dangers of mercury
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According to a study from Consumer Reports, pregnant women should avoid all tuna due to the dangers of being exposed to high levels of mercury. This contradicts the FDA’s recommendation made in June stating that women who are pregnant may consume up to 12 ounces of fish per week.
Read MoreSharing breast milk may pose risks
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According to a new study, from the Center for Biobehavioral Health at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, women may not be considering the health risks to their babies when using shared or donated breast milk from family and friends.
Read MoreClean It Out: The Truth About Uterus Cleanings
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Kim Kardashian on the latest episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashian's revealed she had her uterus cleaned to improve her chances of getting pregnant. Should all women looking to get pregnant do this? We explore.
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