If you’re experiencing urinary incontinence during pregnancy and even following birth, don’t be embarrassed. You’re not alone! Urinary incontinence, especially during pregnancy (prenatal urinary incontinence), is really quite common due to the added pressure on your bladder from baby shifting around in your uterus. It can also occur as the muscles of the uterus and […]
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Researchers from the University of Malaya have disproved the widespread belief that sex during the later stages of pregnancy can jump start labor. The findings, published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, found that timing of delivery was no different for women who had sex near term versus to women who abstained. […]
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The majority of Amish women typically give birth at home under the care of an unlicensed birth attendant. However, the LaFarge Medical Clinic in Wisconsin is offering expectant Amish mothers a safer alternative—a birthing center staffed by a family doctor and midwife. Thanks to this low-tech approach to delivering babies—418 Amish women have delivered 927 […]
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According to Andrew Murray, couples who wait too long to start a family are more prone to struggle with conception. The Medical Director from the Fertility Associates Wellington in New Zealand claims that more and more women are delaying motherhood in favor of career success, travel, and finding Mr. Right. However, conceiving later in life […]
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A new study suggests that depressed pregnant women might not want to risk taking antidepressants while with child. The result of the study is controversial and has the medical community divided. The study authors Alice Domar and Adam Urato came to a number of conclusions with the study. Urato says that “There’s a clear and […]
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The Center of Disease Control has issued a statement saying that all pregnant women should get vaccinated in order to protect their babies. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, ACIP, is run from the CDC and has issued this recommendation. Previously they had the recommended guidelines that pregnant women without previous vaccines should receive them. This […]
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