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The Breast Cancer Awareness Month, marked in countries across the world every October, helps to increase attention and support for the awareness, early detection and treatment as well as palliative care of this disease.
Every year at this time of period, and especially this year through the Covid 19 pandemic, I strongly recommend that all pregnant women and midwives be vaccinated against the flu. Flu during pregnancy can cause serious problems and complications. Changes in immune, heart and lung function during pregnancy make you more vulnerable. Pregnant women with…
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When you’re ready to take the plunge into parenthood, there’s no way to predict exactly how soon you’ll see a positive pregnancy test.
If you’re in pretty good health, and having regular sex without birth control, you should expect to conceive in your first year of trying, says Dr. Garavelas Attanasio.
Regular exercise should be a core component of anyone’s healthy lifestyle. Exercise has been shown to reduce stress, weight, and anxiety. And if you’ve read any (good) infertility blogs, you’ve surely come across a post or two recommending exercise and the maintenance of a healthy weight to achieve IVF success.
The Mediterranean diet is the eating plan that comes out on top as the best diet for women who are preparing for or going through IVF.
Uterine fibroids are common and can affect fertility in many ways. They can affect whether sperm and egg meet, they can affect whether an embryo can implant, they can affect whether a pregnancy can continue, and they can affect the growth and positioning of the baby.
After a C-section, your body can take up to 12 weeks to fully recuperate (this is a bit different from the 6 to 8 weeks in standard deliveries)
Information for pregnant women and their families
These Q&As relate to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection and pregnancy – guidance for healthcare professionals: Version 3 - 18 March 2020 published by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Royal College of Midwives and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, with…
Giving progesterone to
women with early pregnancy bleeding and a history of miscarriage could
lead to 8,450 more babies being born each year, finds new research.
Two
new studies evidence both the scientific and economic advantages of
giving a course of self-administered twice daily progesterone pessaries
to women from when they first present with early…
Does the month in which you were born affect how fertile you are?
Surprisingly the answer is yes. Women born during the summer tend to
have fewer children than women born at other times of year.
Using
birth statistics from Austria, dating back to 1967, Susanne Huber from
the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna,…
Like all nutrients, iron plays a vital role during pregnancy. A baby’s growth requires iron and it is an important nutrient for normal cognitive (brain) development. As pregnancy progresses, your blood volume will gradually increase and so will your iron need. According to the British Committee for Standards in Haematology (BCSH), the physiological iron requirements…