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Fish Found To Improve Fetal Growth

Fish consumption during the final stages of pregnancy seems to increase the size of the infant, according to a new study. Researchers say a diet rich in fish // may boost the fetal growth rate during pregnancy. They found the more fish a woman ate, the less likely she was to deliver a low birth weight b...

Controlling Asthma during Pregnancy

...gnant with boys were symptom-free throughout their pregnancy and did not report nighttime breathing problems fr...important for women to control their asthma during pregnancy because if a mother has a severe asthma attack, it can result in reduced oxygen to the baby, which i...

The Effects Of Fish On Pregnant Women Questioned

...ho ate oily fish, such as salmon and trout, during pregnancy were about 70-percent less likely to have children...ancy. However, mothers who ate fish sticks during pregnancy were twice as likely to have children with asthma, regardless of whether they had asthma themselves....

The Use Of Antioxidants To Diminish Effects of Alcohol During Pregnancy Questioned

Researchers say taking antioxidants during pregnancy may prevent birth defects in babies born to women who abuse alcohol. When pregnant mice // were exposed to ethanol and also given an antioxidant, researchers saw a 36-percent reduction in limb malformations in the offspring. Ethanol is the intoxicati...

New Findings for Repeated Miscarriages

...rcent to 3 percent of couples experience recurrent pregnancy loss. While many of the cases are due to fetal abn... they put together a mouse model focusing on early pregnancy loss. The mouse model showed that a specific immune receptor is activated early in the pregnancy tha...

Yet Another Harmful Consequence Of Smoking

...archers find smoking during the early months // of pregnancy increases the risk of having a baby with a cleft l... women who smoked during the first three months of pregnancy were more likely to have a baby with a cleft lip occurring with or without a cleft palate. While the...

Identifying The Risks Of Developing Schizophrenia

...virus in their blood during the first trimester of pregnancy were seven-times more likely to have schizophrenia than those whose mothers showed no sign of the virus at that stage of pregnancy. However researchers call for more research not only to confirm these findings, but also to uncover the best way to pr...

Strong Pelvic Muscles Found To Facilitate Childbirth

...ensive training of the pelvic floor muscles during pregnancy facilitates rather than obstructs labor, as well as improves control and flexibility of muscles....

WHO acts to reduce the maternal death toll

...egions, a woman has a one in 16 chance of dying in pregnancy and childbirth. The risk of dying in pregnancy in the world's poorest countries is over a hundred times higher than in the richest ones. "Countrie...

Fortifying Foods Found To Reduce Birth Defects

...nant women to take folic acid supplements in early pregnancy when the neural tube is forming. But women also need to maintain adequate levels of folic acid prior to pregnancy. A recent study compared the number of neural tube defects in babies born in Newfoundland and Labrador -- two areas with some of the h...

Weight Of Child A Predictor Of Heart Disease Later In Life

...r-olds. The research shows women who smoked during pregnancy had an offspring with higher blood pressure than w...hers say they believe that quitting smoking during pregnancy could have a small positive effect. Thus researchers conclude saying that a child’s weight plays a ...

Urinary Incontinence May Be Hereditary

...se, and known risk factors such as increasing age, pregnancy and childbirth, and high body mass index may further increase the risk among women with a familial predisposition ....

Suppressing A Girls Height In Adolescence Could Lead to Fertility Problems

...more likely to have been unsuccessful in achieving pregnancy after a year of trying, 80-percent more likely to have consulted with a doctor about fertility problems, and twice as likely to have taken fertility drugs. While most of these women did manage to finally become pregnant, they were 40-percent less lik...

Folic Acid Supplementation During Pregnancy Could Help Prevent Spina Bifida

Folic acid supplementation in early pregnancy can reduce up to 70 percent of spina bifida cases,...ementation around the time of conception and early pregnancy was found to prevent up to 70 percent of spina bifida cases. However researchers say, it's unclear e...

Effectiveness Of Infertility Treatments Questioned

...these cells exist or what their function is during pregnancy and till date women who appear to have high levels of the cells are being offered treatments with steroids or immune suppressant drugs to bring their natural killer cell levels under control. At present none of the existing treatments have been lic...

The Safety Of Prenatal Ultrasounds Questioned

Repeated ultrasound exposures during pregnancy may not cause long-term harm to infants, according to a new study. // For the study 2,700 children were evaluated, half of whom had been exposed to repeated ultrasound and half of whom had only one ultrasound exposure before birth. The children were ...

Avoiding Drugs During Pregnancy

...at depression or other psychiatric problems during pregnancy may be putting their infants at risk for neurobeha...rm newborns whose mothers had taken an SSRI during pregnancy and 17 similar infants whose mothers had not taken one of the drugs, assessing them for more subtle ...

Breathing Cancer Causing Compounds During Pregnancy Found To Affect Offspring

...e linked breathing cancer-causing compounds during pregnancy // to an increased risk of childhood cancer among offspring. They also believe that nearly all childhood cancers can probably be traced back to a mother’s inhalation of noxious substances. The study compared a chemical emissions map with all childre...

Vitamin C Consumption In Pregnancy Found To Increase The Likelihood Of Asthma and Eczema in Kids

Total Vitamin C intake during pregnancy may increase the likelihood of eczema and asthma i...studied to determine how antioxidant intake during pregnancy affects the development of asthma and eczema in children. The full two-year study was completed by 1...

Beware Smoking During Pregnancy Linked To New Danger

... the offspring of smoking mothers. Smoking during pregnancy has been proven to have disastrous effects on the ... complications such as extra uterine pregnancy, or pregnancy resulting from gestation elsewhere than in the uterus. We have only indirect data to prove that smok...

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