High Potato Diet Increases Risk For Gestational Diabetes, New Study Suggests

Medicine & Technology Jan 18, 2016

Just before pregnant mothers crave for French fries or potato salads, you might want to consider this emerging research. A new study suggests that expectant mothers who consume plenty of potatoes might potentially develop gestational diabetes.

Study Links Anti-Depressant Drug And Birth Defects

Jan 16, 2016

A meta-analysis of previous studies claim that expectant mothers taking the antidepressant paroxetine (Paxil, Seroxat) during the early stages of their of pregnancy can result to birth defects. Result is particularly high during the first trimester.

Yoga Safe For Pregnant Women, New Study Claims

Dec 30, 2015

It is believed that practicing yoga among expectant mothers especially during their third semester is contraindicated but this new study debunks previous notions and encourages its practice.

Warning Labels Against Pregnancy For Marijuana-Containing Products: A Must

Nov 17, 2015

The agency will be requiring safety hazard labels on marijuana-containing products wherever they are displayed.

Number of Maternal Deaths Has Significantly Gone Low Since 1990

Nov 16, 2015

The ambitous project to reduce the maternal deaths globally is still on the move with a new target.

Pregnancy Stress Influences A Child's Motor Skills

Oct 19, 2015

Children born to women who experience pregnancy stress may grow up with less body coordination or slower motor skills

FASDs In Pregnancy

Oct 12, 2015

Alcohol is not good for pregnant women and for their babies as per experts' study and conclusion.

Worst Long Term Effect Of Abortion

Sep 30, 2015

By the age of forty-five, two out of every five women has had an abortion. Perhaps it is the significance of this number that makes the abortion debate so heated.

Freezing eggs for IVF could hamper motherhood, research suggests

Aug 13, 2015

A new study shows that freezing eggs for invitro-fertilization may not be as effective as using fresh eggs.

Lamaze Childbirth Pioneer Dies

May 17, 2015

Elisabeth Bing, co-founder of Lamaze International who popularized what was known as natural childbirth and changed how women and doctors approached the delivery room, died Friday in her New York apartment at the age of 100. The cause of her death wasn't immediately known.

Narcotic Painkillers Common During Pregnancy Could Harm Baby

Apr 13, 2015

According to a new study, the use of prescription narcotic painkillers is common during pregnancy but it can increase the likelihood that a baby will be born early or small, or the baby could go through potentially painful withdrawal symptoms after birth.

Woman Gets Addicted To Giving Birth, Becomes Surrogate Till Her ‘Womb Falls Out’

Mar 13, 2015

Remember, there are all kinds of addictions. A woman claims that she is addicted to being pregnant and that she is in a rush for being pregnant as many times as she could until her womb falls off.

The Fishy Case of How Seafood May Help Fetuses In-Utero

Jan 23, 2015

A new study suggests that despite concerns of exposure to mercury, pregnant women that eat a lot of fish may not harm their unborn child. In fact, it could help prevent fetuses from having developmental issues later, as has been previously believed.

Woman Becomes a Mother Only an Hour After Discovering She Is Pregnant

Jan 10, 2015

How much time did you have to prepare for the arrival of your first child? A woman from Massachusetts gave birth to a baby girl on Tuesday barely an hour after she discovered she was pregnant. According to reports, Weymouth town resident Katherine Kropas, 23, sought treatment at South Shore Hospital on Tuesday morning for worsening back pain. Physicians had a difficult time tracing the source of her pain, that is, until they decided to run an ultrasound test and found Kropas was with child.