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The Dangers Involved In Smoking During Pregnancy

Maternal smoking during pregnancy has been proven to have many consequences on pregnancy including infertility, bleeding problems // during the neonatal period, and obstetric complications ...

Epilepsy Drug Valproate and Lamotrigine Linked To Malformed Fetus

...omen who took the drug in their first trimester of pregnancy often gave birth to malformed babies. Data for t...xposure to valproic acid during first trimester of pregnancy raises the risk of major congenital malformations in babies. In a different study published in the ...

Pre-pregnancy folic acid intake does not increase rate of having twins

... form of vitamin B. this vitamin if taken before a pregnancy is said to increase the chances of having a twin b...between use of multivitamins and folic acid during pregnancy and having twin babies. The researchers are of the opinion that this could be due to increase in vit...

Risk of preeclampsia in pregnant mothers may be inherited

...e how the placenta develops in the early stages of pregnancy is what leads to the diseases of preeclampsia and others. The scientists hope that one single blood test will be able to predict the gene that gives a woman with the STOX1 genotype a fift percent chance of having preeclampsia. The study is publishe...

Ginger to reduce nausea for pregnant women

...study observation showed no reported effect on the pregnancy or the baby after delivery. There were also no cases of any adverse reactions to pregnant mother and unborn fetus. Scientists feel although more studies are required to prove the effectiveness of ginger on morning sickness in order to prescribe ginge...

IVF results may be affected by stress and other related factors

...completion of embryo transfer leading to full time pregnancy is related to low levels of adrenalin hormone that...igh, rates of embryo transfer leading to full term pregnancy were very low. The inverse relationship of the hormone adrenalin (which is released under stressfu...

Low hemoglobin may make mothers bond less with their babies

...State University. Iron deficiency at the time of pregnancy and childbirth was previously related to post-partum depression and slowing down of thinking and memory in women. The new study suggests that bonding with their newborns is also affected by iron deficiency and may lead to disrupted relationship betwe...

Association of maternal and granny’s smoking on children’s asthma provd

... life. Children of mothers who quit smoking before pregnancy did not show any risks for asthma. On interesting discovery was the fact that if mother had experienced maternal smoking while still in the uterus of her mother, children’s risk of having childhood asthma also increases. However, postnatal exposure t...

Pregnant mothers dental health can lead to pre-term babies

It is a known fact that pregnancy is associated with dental problems. But are the de...hat it is possible that dental bacteria affect the pregnancy by causing pre-term delivery or babies born with low birth weight. Researchers have evaluated specif...

WHO report asks for improved healthcare for mother and child

WHO had expressed concern over the way pregnancy and childbirth in under developed countries had le...30,000 women all over the world die each year from pregnancy and childbirth related complications. In a less developed country only two third of the pregnant wom...

Pregnancy hormone to prevent breast cancer

Having a full term pregnancy at the age of 20yrs may be the protective agent ag.... The research study had successfully shown that pregnancy and a hormone produced during pregnancy have been called human chronic gonadotropin (hCG) have inhib...

Infection in pregnancy can lead to congenital eye defects

...e maternal infections. Infections like Rubella in pregnancy are known to cause such birth defects. Now studies...nfections of the pregnant mothers with the time of pregnancy when the ocular development happens for the fetus to find out the kind of health the pregnant lady w...

Grandmother’s diet in pregnancy can affect grandchildren’s blood sugr

Research had shown that diet taken during pregnancy not only decides the health// of the fetus, it may...of female rats to a protein-restricted diet during pregnancy and lactation. The female babies born from this generation of rats had babies with altered glucose a...

Mothers diet in pregnancy and after can prevent daughter’s breast cancer

...s who had omega-3 fatty acids in their diet during pregnancy and lactation may be creating a protective// shield against their daughter’s risk of breast cancer. Scientists from Louisiana State University who presented the research findings at the 96th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Rese...

Delaying pregnancy may lessen life expectancy of the child

Spanish scientists have reported that delaying pregnancy may result in shortened life expectancy //for the ...ren. With more and more women deciding to put off pregnancy for the sake of career have been resulting in delayed pregnancy for women across the globe. Delaying...

Prenatal exposure to air pollution causes chromosomal damage

... women had worn during the last trimester of their pregnancy assessed the exposure to pollutants. They also had answered questionnaires giving details of the kind of pollutants they might be exposed to. Genetic alterations that happen in babies had been linked with incidence of leukemia and other forms of ca...

Canada helps in giving birth to world first baby from frozen egg

...ed in her uterus, which she carried to a full term pregnancy and gave birth to a healthy baby boy. Freezing of eggs taken from the ovaries of woman is a difficult procedure that results in ice crystal formation and decreases the longevity of the eggs. Hence it is very difficult to use this procedure to treat ...

Stress and mood fatigue may affect the diet in pregnancy

...nal of the American Dietetic Association. Diet in pregnancy is very important to the growth of the fetus and needs to contain the food elements like folic acid and other vitamins amongst other things. The study points out that women who are more often exhausted or stressed tend to eat more of one kind of fo...

Drug for cancer may help restrict premature labor

...smooth muscle cells of the uterus by acting on the pregnancy hormone Human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG). In pregnancy the placenta produces large amounts of hCG. This hormone activates the number of CG/LH receptors on ...

Late pregnancy may be at risk from poor health and mental state

Late pregnancy is becoming more and more common as women are opti...d thirties, late thirties or even to forties. Late pregnancy brings with it it’s own source of woes and risks to the mother and child. A Danish study says adde...

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