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Babies of Mothers who Smoke During Pregnancy Possess Greater...

As per a new research published in the journal Pediatric Allergy, Immunology and Pulmonology, mother who smoke during pregnancy pose their babies a greater risk of getting affected with sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and this is due [...]

Posted On : Nov, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Midwives and Mothers Don’t Support ‘Drinking Alcohol During ...

There is no harm to child's intellectual development, if pregnant women take low doses of alcohol, as revealed by the British researchers. The study was led by Yvonne Kelly, a scientist of the epidemiology and public health departmen [...]

Posted On : Oct, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Sleep essential for mothers-to-be

Newly pregnant women who get less than five hours sleep a night are more likely to suffer from problems in birth, research shows. They are ten times more at risk from pre-eclampsia, a condition which causes high blood pressure, leading t [...]

Posted On : Oct, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Researchers say pregnant mothers should be given vitamin D

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 [...]

Posted On : Jul, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

Mother-daughter pregnancy sickness link found

Pregnant women are three times more likely to suffer from severe morning sickness if their mothers did, say Norwegian researchers. Around 2% of women suffer excessive nausea and vomiting in pregnancy - known as hyperemesis gravidarum - w [...]

Posted On : Apr, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Ten tips for expectant mothers

Take prenatal vitamins with folic acid and essential fatty acids, starting two to three months before conception (when you start having unprotected sex in order to get pregnant). Take at least 800 micrograms of folic acid per da [...]

Posted On : Apr, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

Testing schoolgirls for pregnancy not likely to cut number o...

N’gombeni High School principal Cornelius Maganga makes no secret of the fact that teenage mothers are not welcome at his school. He tells of one student who hid her pregnancy and went home to deliver. “When she came back we tol [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2009 | Comments : 0

Mothers with long relationship have healthier babies

Short duration of sexual relationship is more common in women who develop preeclampsia and women with abnormal uterine artery Doppler waveforms who deliver an SGA (small for gestational age) baby, revealed by researchers.The study is conduc [...]

Posted On : Nov, 24 2009 | Comments : 0

Exercising To End Of Pregnancy Is Healthy For Baby And Mothe...

Conservative customs, exercising up to the end of pregnancy has no harmful effect on the weight or size of the foetus, new research suggests. This is what has been indicated in a study carried out by researchers of the Universidad Polit&eac [...]

Posted On : Nov, 13 2009 | Comments : 0

Older mothers 'behind Down's rise'

The number of babies diagnosed with Down's syndrome has risen sharply in the last 20 years - largely due to women delaying motherhood, research shows. Increasing numbers of older mothers is behind a 71% rise in the number of babies with the [...]

Posted On : Oct, 27 2009 | Comments : 0

New hope for IVF mothers as British scientists develop test ...

British scientists have made a dramatic IVF breakthrough which could bring hope to thousands of women. They have developed an embryo screening technique which makes it far more likely a woman will give birth. A trial showed that it doubles [...]

Posted On : Oct, 19 2009 | Comments : 0

Overweight mothers linked to infant heart defects

Women who are overweight or obese when they get pregnant are more likely to give birth to children with congenital heart defects, according to a U.S. government study released on Thursday. The study, conducted by the U.S. Centers for Diseas [...]

Posted On : Oct, 02 2009 | Comments : 0

Exercise during pregnancy healthy for both mother and child,...

Doctors should recommend low to moderate levels of exercise to pregnant women because it can strengthen and improve overall musculoskeletal and physiologic health as well as pregnancy related symptoms, according to a review article. Publis [...]