Topic: Pandemic Brought Preterm Births Down, but not all Women Benefitted Equally Last spring, when the whole world went into hibernation to try to curb the spread of a new virus ravaging the planet, few people were able to look on the bright side. But a few months later, neonatologists in different parts of the…
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Topic: Two or more of these risk factors during pregnancy may increase a child’s risk of mental health problems years later Doctors have long known that unplanned pregnancies in women with certain chronic health problems and exposure in the womb to substances like drugs and alcohol can lead to a child’s increased risk for psychiatric…
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Topic: U.S. birth rate falls to lowest point in more than a century One in eight couples suffers from infertility in the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The U.S. birth rate fell 4% last year, the largest single-year decrease in nearly 50 years, according to a government report…
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Topic: Why Americans lack adequate access to fertility treatments One in eight couples suffers from infertility in the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. My husband and I are that one in eight. When we decided to start our family in 2017, I was 29 years old and expected…
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Topic: 5 Foods to include in your diet for your baby’s hair growth during pregnancy It is said that what you eat during the nine months of pregnancy decides your baby’s health. One of the most important aspects of getting the right nutrition in your body also affects your baby’s hair growth. Here are 5…
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Topic: Tips to help make women’s health a priority for Mother’s Day With Mother’s Day part of the annual springtime cycle of renewal, this year’s celebration may bring added significance given Tennessee’s continued reopening amid the COVID-19 pandemic. As more people become vaccinated and some families start to gather in person again, it may be…
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Topic: What to Do If Your Baby Keeps Falling Asleep While Nursing When you have a new baby, you often get a lot of warnings about how your little one — and you! — will sleep. But you may be surprised to find that in the first few weeks of your baby’s life, they do…
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Topic: What We Know About Women’s Health and Vaccines When federal health officials and the CDC decided to pause distribution of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine for ten days earlier this month, after several women developed a rare blood-clot disorder within two weeks of vaccination, some Americans expressed concern about potential effects the vaccine…
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Topic: 1 in 10 women will have a miscarriage. They shouldn’t be told to ‘just try again,’ new research says Miscarriages are common. Some 23 million pregnancies worldwide end in miscarriage every year — that’s 15% of all pregnancies or 44 each minute, according to new estimates published in The Lancet medical journal on Monday.…
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Topic: Chemicals in plastic, electronics are lowering fertility in men and women Several chemicals found in everyday use products including plastic and electronics are lowering fertility in men, women and even some non-human species. Shanna Swan, a leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologist who has authored the book “Count Down” on the subject, and is also…
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