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Heart disease in the newborn is related to maternal malnutrition

... the kids is not something very difficult. Are the expectant mothers listening...

Avoid stress to have strong babies

...lotte's and Chelsea Hospital in London studied 200 expectant mothers. They found pregnant women who were more anxious or stressed had "significantly abnormal patterns of blood flow through the uterine arteries". The findings, published in the British Medical Journal, suggest that "the psychological state of ...

Good News For Women With Gestational Diabetes

When an expectant woman has diabetes during her pregnancy, the special form of the disease, called gestational diabetes, puts both mother and her baby at risk. Moms can develop high blood pressure or preeclampsia.// Their newborns are at risk for lung problems and occ...

Smoking habit affects your baby's health

...aside their habit or smokers who live or work with expectant moms willing to put their habit on hold for the sake of the child? A statistics that came out of a recent meeting of the Baxter County Tobacco Control Committee was that// Baxter County has the highest rate of pregnant women who smoke. Maybe these w...

More Complications Seen In Women With Epilepsy

...sk for birth defects. They say it is better to get expectant mothers on a single medication that works to minimize side effects and risk. Thus researchers conclude that women with epilepsy need special care in managing their disorder....

Mother’s Diet Could Prevent Cancer In Their Unborn Children

...t is that women hoping to get pregnant, as well as expectant mothers, understand that critical nutrients in vegetables, fruit and foods containing protein, such as meat, fish beans and nuts, may protect the health of their unborn children....

Dental Health Can Affect Pregnancy

...nancy always had affected the dental health of the expectant mother. Now a new study suggests that periodontal // inflammations can lead to a condition of preeclampsia in the pregnant women. The study links chronic dental inflammation and periodontal infection, together with periodontitis with atherosclerosi...

Twin pregnancy may be risky for the fetus

...tudy recommend that for such types of pregnancies, expectant mothers should opt for elective pre-term delivery after 32 weeks. This may lower the mortality risk associated with the fetuses before delivery. However researchers feel that more study is essential to find out more about the factors that increase th...

Revolutionary Simple Pregnancy Blood Test Can Save Both Mother And Child

...other and baby." Pre-eclampsia kills over 20'000 expectant mothers worldwide every year. Pre-eclampsia is unpredictable and can appear suddenly in about one in 12 pregnancies. The blood pressure shoots up in the mothers-to-be and can cause seizures or fits, stroke and kidney related complications. This can r...

Study Links Folic Acid With Increased Birth Weight

... the study feel that this does not ensure that the expectant mothers get this very important vitamin in the earlier stages of gestation. This is important as this could mean lesser birth weight for the newborns. Researchers had studied the pregnant ladies and their newborn babies and tested the blood samples ...

Vitamins Found To Influence Birth Weight

...nt study was based on blood samples taken from 998 expectant mothers. Researchers recorded the amount of folate in their red blood cells - the cells can show activity over the previous three months and can gather lifestyle information, such as smoking habits, from a questionnaire, as well as the weight of each...

Dietary supplementation of Folic Acid Requires Critical Evaluation

...id. In 1991, scientists demonstrated that giving expectant mothers a synthetic version of folic acid could significantly reduce the risk of the birth defects. The natural form of the vitamin is found in green leafy vegetables, whole grains and citrus fruits, although it is less easily absorbed. In addition, ...

Breast feeding can prevent HIV infection transmission

...t. In this feature, an attempt is made to make the expectant mother understand the various aspects of breast-feeding and its importance....

TWO India Doctors Listed in TIME for Contribution to Global Health

...utrition and the strange habit of starvation among expectant tribal mothers who believe this makes the delivery easier, the couple started working to solve them. They found that simple improvement of skills and education to health workers will effectively reduce the reproductive and child health problems in de...

Time magazine has recognized efforts of two Indian doctors towards reducing infant mortality rate

...ath out of which malnutrition and starvation among expectant mothers for ease of delivery were found to be significant. The next step was directed towards reducing the identified burden. The plan was so simple that it could be implemented by a health worker with basic skills and with some rudimentary equipme...

Domestic Violence: The Silent Killer of Women Worldwide

...emotional high tide for the woman, a time when the expectant mother should be protected and nurtured in every way. Nearly 4 to 12% of the women reported episodes of getting beaten up during pregnancy. More than a half of them were either kicked or punched in their abdomen, inducing a miscarriage. Nearly 90% of...

No need to hassel with children at meal time, just eat when pregnant!

...nnella tested the theory by giving carrot juice to expectant mothers. The basis was a French study which revealed the children of mothers given anise-flavoured drinks while breast-feeding later liked the flavour of aniseed more than other babies. In the words of Dr. Mennella, 'Although there are a lot of dif...

Stem Cell Facility To Be Established In Chennai

...ructure will be provided by SRMC. As many as 1,000 expectant parents have been enrolled by LifeCell for cord blood stem cells banking. The SRMC's Registrar Ms. Radha Venkatachalam has expressed happiness over the fact that the cutting edge technology is being pioneered by the SRMC in India. This will also c...

Finger And Toe abnormalities Related to Maternal Smoking

...the consequences. Our hope is this study will show expectant mothers another danger of lighting up", concluded Dr. Chang....

Newborns Affected By Antidepressant Intake Of Mothers

Researchers have advised expectant mothers to reduce the intake of anti-depressant drugs, as it is likely to affect the new born with withdrawal symptoms. // The newborn babies of such mothers display symptoms like disturbed sleep, gastrointestinal problems, high-pitched crying, and ...

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