Flu Prevention Tips

Flu season is here again. Some women choose to have a flu vaccine, but others for many reasons, including allergies, religious beliefs or personal preference, may have chosen not to get the shot. The best thing you can do is take steps to prevent the flu.

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Body Image and Weight Gain in Pregnancy

A study at Temple University has resulted in some interesting information about body image and excessive weight gain in pregnancy. As most women know, some of us have an accurate body image, but others view themselves as either thinner or heavier than their actual body weight.

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Watson Pharmaceuticals Receives FDA Final Approval for Generic Mircette

Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a leader in generic and specialty branded pharmaceuticals, today announced that its subsidiary, Watson Laboratories, Inc., has received final approval from the United States Food ...

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How to Have a Natural Birth in a Hospital Part 2

In yesterday's blog post, I talked about the impact your choice of hospital has on your birth experience. The other part of the picture when you want a natural birth, free of interventions is the health care provider you choose to attend your birth.

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How to Have a Natural Birth in a Hospital Part 1

Many mothers and most proponents of home birth would argue that the current medical model of maternity care in the United States makes it difficult to have a natural birth in the hospital.

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First trimester bleeding

First trimester bleeding may occur in 80% of pregnancies. The most likely causes are miscarriage, threatened miscarriage , sexual intercourse, overactivity, and ectopic pregnancy.

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"Im 8 Weeks & Not Showing - Normal?"

You are expecting...Congratulations! Talk here about all the ups and downs of pregnancy.

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A New Test for Earlier Detection of Preeclampsia

Preeclampsia is one of the more serious complications of pregnancy, affecting between three and eight percent of all pregnancies, depending on the source. According to the World Health Organization, this condition is responsible for about 19 percent of all maternal deaths.

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Fertility Drugs: Metaformin

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) affects approximately seven percent of women. Women with PCOS tend to have numerous small cysts in the ovaries, irregular or absent menstrual cycles and high levels of male hormones, known as androgens.

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Positive home pregnancy test

A positive home pregnancy test should be done around the time of one's expected menstrual cycle.

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Week Four of Pregnancy - 4th Week

Now is the time a woman's menstrual cycle is late and surging hormones begin to create signs and symptoms of pregnancy in the mother's body.

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Benefits of Pilates in Pregnancy

Pilates is a good choice for prenatal exercise. Pilates strengthens the muscles of the abdomen, pelvis and back. This can help prepare your body for labor. In addition, you may find you feel better and experience fewer discomforts after starting a Pilates class.

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Metformin can prevent postpartum diabetes

Following gestational diabetes, a type of diabetes that developments during pregnancy and usually goes away after pregnancy, treatment with metformin or intensive lifestyle interventions can prevent or delay ...

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Fertility After 40

Yesterday was my 40th birthday. The occasion got me thinking about life and motherhood. No, I am not thinking of adding another baby to our family, but many women my age are having babies or trying to conceive. The common belief is that fertility drops off dramatically after the 40th birthday.

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5 Ways to Hide Your Pregnancy

Pregnancy is a special time, but as they say, timing is everything. And sometimes, it's just not the right time to tell everyone you're pregnant.

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Bringing childbirth to an orgasmic level

File this one under: WHAT?!

The documentary Orgasmic Birth, quietly released last spring, gained attention when ABC's news magazine 20/20 announced that it will air a few minutes of footage on January 2. The news sent mommy bloggers into a tizzy of excitement and now everyone from Lisa Belkin of The New York Times to Tracy Clark-Flory of Salon has written something about orgasming, yes orgasming, during childbirth. (Sign me up for a third! Please!)

The documentary follows 11 beautiful and natural births; two of the women orgasm during labor. Amber Hartnell of Hawaii, who gave birth to her son in a tub in her yard, says: "All of a sudden the orgasm just started rolling through and rolling through, and it just kept coming, and my whole body was spiraling and rolling, and I was laughing and crying." Similarly, Tamra Larter of New Jersey says: "It was happening, and I could hardly breathe, and it was like, 'oh, that feels good.' That's all I could say really."

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Childfree a Life Without Kids

My friend has a brain tumor. She was trying to get pregnant and found out she has scaring in her uterus and a tumor behind her pituitary gland.

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Treatment for Post Partum Hemorrhage

Post partum hemorrhage is a serious and potentially life threatening complication of child birth. It can happen after both vaginal and c section births. About four percent of women experience post partum hemorrhage after the birth of their babies.

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What it's like to be a baby...

I was reading with fascination the post on CNN on What it feels like to be a baby .

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Screening hope for pre-eclampsia - BBC Health News 28th October 2008

A blood test that screens pregnant woman for pre-eclampsia long before symptoms develop could be available in the next five years, doctors predict.

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Post Partum Hemorrhage

Post partum hemorrhage is estimated to affect approximately four percent of mothers after the births of their babies. This is a very serious and potentially life threatening complication of child birth. Post partum hemorrhage (PPH) can happen after either a vaginal birth or a c section.

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Vatican nixes in vitro babies

The Vatican slammed the brakes on biotechnology this week, coming out with its first definitive dogmatic instruction on the matter in decades.

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Pregnant without Health Insurance

Women find themselves pregnant and without health insurance to cover prenatal care or birth for a variety of reasons. For some, the cost of health insurance is not within the family's budget or the employer does not offer health benefits to employees.

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Winter Coats for Pregnant Women

It's getting cold, so staying warm is on people's minds. Okay so I get an email that I think I know the answer to, but it's a fashion question regarding maternity clothes.

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What to Do: Prenatal Care

I cannot tell you how important good prenatal care is for both you and your child. While the level of intervention by your care provider can vary due to personal preference or practice preference, some form of making sure that you are in good health and that the baby is in good health is your best course of action. While you may (or may not) have experienced a pregnancy before if you are reading this blog, you are likely experiencing an unplanned pregnancy this time around. That little scenario may leave you concerned with how to procure prenatal care.

And so,... [...] Read more!

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Preparing for Baby When Money is Tight

The current economic climate is affecting families in a broad range of ways. Whether one partner has lost a job, had their hours reduced or the rising cost of food and energy is sapping the budget, there may not be as much money to go around these days.

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Justices ponder including former top officials in suit

Associated Press WASHINGTON: Supreme Court justices voiced concern Wednesday about including former Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller in a lawsuit that claims prisoners detained ...

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Justices hear bias case on maternity, pensions and timing

WASHINGTON : The argument of an employment discrimination case at the Supreme Court on Wednesday was full of references to one of the court's more controversial decisions in recent years - the 2007 ruling ...

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Supreme Court considers whether pension benefits can be reduced by old maternity leaves

Several Supreme Court justices questioned on Wednesday whether AT & T Corp. is discriminating against former employees by paying smaller retirement checks to women who took pregnancy leaves in the 1960s and ...

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Should I Use Natural Beauty Products?

When we become pregnant, we suddenly become more aware of the foods we eat and the products we use. Companies making natural beauty products tout their brands as the healthier choice.

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Holiday Emotions & Pregnancy Hormones

The holidays are stressful. They can also be an emotional time for many different people. Pregnancy is stressful. It can also be an emotional time for many different expectant mothers. If you combine the two and add in the extra stress that an unplanned pregnancy might bring to the table, you'll find that holiday emotions and pregnancy hormones can create a catastrophic result! That is, if you're not prepared!

You can be prepared though.

Knowing, ahead of time, that the two things combined (holiday emotions and pregnancy hormones) could lead to some... [...] Read more!

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"Is my period normal?"

I just got AF a day early after having what I thought were very evident pregnancy symptoms of stomach cramps and nausea last week.

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Cop Tickets Woman in Labor on Her Way to Hospital

Jennifer and John Davis wrote a letter to the paper explaining they were jammed up in traffic trying to get to the Hospital.



The couple says they started driving in the breakdown lane, which is illegal.



They said two state troopers waived them through, once they found out Jennifer was in labor.



The Davis' say a third trooper pulled them over and even after making Jennifer show him her belly to prove she was pregnant, he still made them wait while he wrote up a citation.



A police spokesman said the trooper who gave the ticket made a decision to enforce the breakdown lane law.



The couple says they do plan to appeal the ticket, but are still not sure if they are going to file a complaint against the officer.



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Trying to Get Pregnant? Avoid Secondhand Smoke

Several research studies have shown a link between cigarette smoking and fertility problems. Quitting smoking has been touted as an important step in enhancing fertility. But, that may not be enough. New research now shows a potential link between fertility issues and secondhand smoke.

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Need a Quick Stretch?

After riding in a car or being cramped in an airplane for traveling last week - or heck, even straining yourself shopping on Black Friday, you probably need a nice stretch.

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Respect women's choices, review told

A Federal Government review of maternity services has been told to stop treating pregnancy as an illness and to respect women's birth choices.

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A Great Diaper Debate

Just like people have certain coffees, lipstick or other personal items, diapers stir the heart of many parent, with a good reason.

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What to Do: Learn About Birth

Wednesday again and that means it is time for What To Do Wednesdays! This week I'm going to start it off with what seems like an easy step in this process. Trust me, it's a bit more complicated than it will initially sound. Today's task is to learn about birth.

I know you're probably thinking, "Really! Birth is the last thing on my mind right now! That comes later." Well, it does come later. But it is one of those things that will affect you whether you decide to parent or place your child for adoption. It is one of the inevitable factors of pregnancy. Birth happens.

I went into the labor and delivery room with the daughter I relinquished for adoption horribly unprepared for what would... [...] Read more!

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Ultrasound for Fun: Yes or No

We've been discussing the ultrasounds that you pay for that are not ordered by your doctor, known as keepsake ultrasounds.

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Watch the Duggars Welcome Baby No. 18!

Sure, Angelina Jolie has her hands full raising six children. But she's got nothing on Michelle Duggar: She and husband Jim Bob are about to welcome their 18th child � and they're inviting viewers to watch.



The Tontitown, Ark., family, whose show 17 Kids and Counting airs on TLC, are inviting the network's cameras to capture their next child's grand entrance in January.



Michelle and Jim Bob, who are part of the evangelical Christian movement called Quiverful, currently have seven girls and 10 boys � and plan to continue to expand their family.



"Our goal is for each one of our children to be best friends," Jim Bob told the Associated Press. "And everybody working together to serve each other makes that happen."



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Supreme Court Preview: AT&T v. Hulteen

Next Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in AT&T v. Hulteen , a case involving pregnancy leave and the calculation of years of service for retirement benefits.

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Tips for Pregnancy Tests

So, your period is late . Your breasts are sore . You might even be having some nausea .

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scared-no pregnancy symptoms but hcg rising well-6 wks

Hi, This is Chini from India. I am due in July 2009 I think. Have my first scan tomorrow at 6 wks 2 days.

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How to Give This Season

If you are experiencing an unplanned pregnancy, you may be fretting about how you could possibly give this year. Finances and saving money may be one of your primary concerns. Did you know that you can still give without spending any money?

I'm not even talking about homemade crafts that you can make for people. (Though that's a great idea, too! Look into it. I'm no help on the crafty front. Trust me.) Instead, I'm talking about how you can get into the spirit of giving this holiday season without spending a dime.

Being in the situation you are right now, I'm... [...] Read more!

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Go Buy an Ornament

As Christmas nears, you're probably overwhelmed with the amount of things that need to be done on top of being pregnant. I remember it well! I was actually due to have my daughter that I relinquished for adoption on Christmas Eve! She was born two weeks early and home with her parents by that time. All the same, I learned some things from hindsight that I thought I could pass off to you regarding the holidays, unplanned pregnancy and that overwhelmed feeling!

I want you to do something this week: go buy one of two ornaments. Go buy either a Baby's First Christmas... [...] Read more!

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"Anyone else, No symptoms?"

I was just wondering if there is anyone else that isn't having any symptoms at all.

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Baby Shower Cookies

I was feeling industrious this weekend and tried to make some baby themed cookies .

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