Pregnancy Health

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May
2009

Health Canada Warns Expectant or Nursing Moms To Not Take Maxum Matragen And/or Maxum Multi Vite Supplements

Health Canada is advising expectant mothers and breastfeeding women not to take the vitamin-mineral supplements Maxum Matragen or Maxum Multi-Vite by Seroyal International Inc.because both lack the required cautionary statement on the label regarding pregnant and/or breast feeding women.

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May
2009

Could Taking Probiotics During Pregnancy Help Cut Belly Fat Afterwards?

New research suggests that taking probiotics during their pregnancy may help women keep belly fat under control after pregnancy.

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23
Apr
2009

Study: Morning Sickness May Lead To Brighter Kids

Good news for expectant moms who are suffering from morning sickness. Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children’s (SickKids) Motherisk Program have found that morning sickness, which impacts up to 80 per cent of pregnancies, enhances children’s long-term neurodevelopment.

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Jan
2009

Woman Pregnant For 60 Years

Doctors were stunned when a 92-year-old woman, complaining of a stomachache, was found to have been carrying her unborn baby in her womb for the past 60 years.

According to a report, Huang Yijun of Huangjiaotan, China, had been told in 1948 that her child had died in the womb, but the procedure to remove [...]

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20
Jan
2009

My Belly And It’s Linea Negra

Now that the baby has arrived, all I am left with is some extra skin and my ‘Linea negra’ (a dark line down the middle of my belly).
Arriving usually in the second trimester, the linea negra is more commonly found in women who already have darker skin pigmentation and is caused by an increased production [...]

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Jan
2009

Another Pregnant Woman Caught Driving Drunk

Here’s a good mom-to-be…A heavily pregnant woman has pleaded guilty to drink driving at more than four times the legal limit, not wearing her seat belt and driving unlicensed.
Amber Jade Mills, 23, was stopped last November when police saw her swerving, beeping the horn and parking across two spaces.
When the police pulled her over, [...]

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Dec
2008

Published Reports Inaccurate Concerning Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy

A national alcohol research group is concerned that the media’s misinterpretation of a recent British research study could encourage pregnant women to be more at ease with temperate alcohol consumption – especially during the holiday season.
Some media reports erroneously stated that the study by The University College London researchers revealed that light drinking by [...]

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10
Dec
2008

An Orgasm During Childbirth? Some Women Say Yes!

When women describe childbirth they use words like painful, excruciating and unbearable – never pleasurable and euphoric…

But Amber Hartnell of Hawaii says her birth experience was different. The mom of 2 says she experienced an orgasm during labor when she gave birth to her son in September 2005.
“All of a sudden the orgasm just [...]

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Dec
2008

Docs Warn Too Much Exercise Not Good For Pregnant Women

Some women get pregnant, sit back and relax while others push it a little too hard trying to make sure that their bodies stay fit.
Dr. Dave Hnida wants women to know there can be too much of a good thing when they exercise while pregnant. A little bit can mean easier labor and delivery, but [...]

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Dec
2008

Christmas Idea: Planned Parenthood Gift Certificates?

For this holiday season, Indiana’s Planned Parenthood is offering an unusual stocking stuffer: gift certificates redeemable for health services at clinics throughout the state.
the organization says it made the move toward gift certificates because it is worried that more and more people will forgo basic health care.

“Women in particular are likely to forgo basic medical [...]

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Nov
2008

Pregnant Moms Asked To Skip The Hairspray To Prevent Birth Defects

Pregnant women are being asked to go ‘au natural’ amid fears that some cosmetics could lead to birth defects.
The move follows the publication of a study which found that women exposed to high levels of hairspray during pregnancy were twice as likely to have babies born with hypospadias, a condition in which the urinary tract [...]

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Nov
2008

Baby Hiccups In Utero

For the last few weeks one of my friends, who is a few weeks ahead of me, has been complaining about her growing baby getting fetal hiccups – 3 times a day.
Up to this point, I thought she was crazy because I hadn’t experienced that could be considered ‘fetal hiccups’, until last night.
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