Posts for 'Issues' Category

The Pregnancy Resource Connection, Inc. hosted a successful “Baby Bottle Fundraiser” and PRC Mountain Scramble — Run For A Life. The group had 11 participating churches that made its baby bottles available to their congregations, with the largest gifts amounting over $4,600.

Participating churches included: Gore Range Baptist, Grand River Assembly, Granby Baptist, Hot Sulphur Springs, Kremmling Community, Our Lady of the Snow, Living Word, Lord of the Valley, St. Peters — Kremmling, Stillwater Chapel, Winter Park Christian.

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New research shows that babies born to methamphetamine-using moms face much higher risks of serious complications, compared to babies not exposed in the womb to this illegal street drug. Life-threatening pregnancy complications, such as uncontrolled high blood pressure, are also more common among women who use methamphetamine while pregnant, the researchers found.

Methamphetamine, also called meth, is a highly addictive stimulant that users inject, snort, smoke or swallow. A form called crystal meth looks like fragments of glass and is smoked using a glass pipe like those used to smoke crack cocaine.

Methamphetamine use among US women continues to be a serious problem. A recent study found that over the last 15 years, methamphetamine abuse has become the most common reason for pregnant women to seek drug counseling.

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Forever 21, a clothing chain that attracts many under-21 customers with its inexpensive, trendy fashions, is being questioned about its motives in choosing a select group of states to carry its recently launched maternity line. The line, called Love 21 Maternity, is currently available in Arizona, Alaska, California, Utah and Texas.

The chain came under scrutiny when bloggers from the fashion site The Gloss noted last week that the states chosen to carry the line also have high rates for teen pregnancies.

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1.get my head around giving birth

How can we put this? It’s probably going to hurt. Quite a bit. But the more you prepare for this Labour lark, the better your experience will be. “Research shows mums who attend antenatal classes are more mentally and physically prepared and therefore have a better birth,” says Sally Lomas, active birth teacher from the UK. Classes are the ideal place to practise positions and discuss emotions so you really believe your body can give birth.

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The authors argue that despite a growing body of evidence that links vitamin D deficiency to complications in pregnancy and poor neonatal health, the UK remains the only one of 31 European countries that doesn’t have a set vitamin D recommendation for women of reproductive age, while also failing to endorse a daily supplement to expectant mothers.

Co-author Dr Elina Hyppönen, a reader in epidemiology and public health at the ICH, said: "The incidence of vitamin D deficiency in pregnant women in Britain is unacceptably high, especially during winter and spring. This is compounded by a lack of exposure to sunlight and the limitations of an average diet to meet the optimal need.

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Mothers who drink alcohol during pregnancy may be damaging the fertility of their future sons, a study by Danish scientists said on Tuesday. The researchers found that if mothers had drunk 4.5 or more drinks a week while pregnant, the sperm concentration of their sons -- measured about 20 years later -- was a third lower than in men who were not exposed to alcohol while in the womb.

The study by scientists at the University of Aarhus in Denmark was presented at the conference of European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Rome. A drink was measured as 12 grams of alcohol, equivalent to one 330 ml can of beer, one small (120 ml) glass of wine or one shot (40 ml) of spirits.

Our study shows that there is an association between drinking a moderate amount of alcohol during pregnancy and lower sperm concentrations in sons," said Cecilia of Aarhus's department of occupational medicine, who led the research.

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Some of them look guilty, averting their eyes when people stare. It's a pathetic and sad sight. Others are more defiant, inhaling the toxic smoke as if their lives depend on it. But one thing's for sure. Pregnant women who smoke make me feel sick and mildly depressed.

Seeing an expectant woman in her dressing gown and slippers suck on a smoke is beyond pathetic when it's impossible to escape the gruesome images of the dangers of cigarettes. So, I'm all for the British plan to test every pregnant woman for smoking.

That's right. During the week, the British Government's health watchdog called for all pregnant women to be breath-tested for carbon monoxide to determine whether they smoked or were exposed to too much second-hand smoke.

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These 10 tips can help you prevent infections that could harm your unborn baby. You won`t always know if you have an infection - sometimes you won`t even feel sick. If you think you might have an infection or think you are at risk, see your doctor.

Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially when�

 1. Using the bathroom
   2. Touching raw meat, raw eggs, or unwashed vegetables
   3. Preparing food and eating
   4. Gardening or touching dirt or soil
   5. Handling pets
   6. Being around people who are sick
   7. Getting saliva (spit) on your hands
   8. Caring for and playing with children

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Childhood hardships make one vulnerable to pregnancy problems during adulthood.b To see if hardships faced during childhood have any impact on pregnancy complications, researchers followed 4,865 American women who had experienced.

At least one hardship during childhood and had given birth at least once by the age of 41 years. Hardships included family problems with alcohol, fathers who didn't take an interest in the child's schooling, family financial difficulties and neglect.

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A SCANNER which produced images which were “not adequate to accurately assess early pregnancies and their complications” was being used at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda when a woman was wrongly told the eight-week-old baby in her womb was dead, a review has found.

It also found that when Melissa Redmond from Donabate, Dublin, visited the hospital’s early pregnancy unit for a scan on July 22nd last year she was examined by a junior doctor at obstetric registrar level.

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