Topic: Your Guide To Hiking During Pregnancy “Make sure you don’t lift heavy things. And don’t bend over to pick anything up.” This advice from my husband’s grandmother didn’t seem very practical. But I was a first-time mom pregnant with twins and I wanted her to at least know that I appreciated her concern. Less…
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Topic: How Is Melasma Treated During Pregnancy? Your body goes through tremendous changes during pregnancy. Your belly gets larger and your blood volume increases as your baby grows. You may experience cramping, morning sickness, and all sorts of unfamiliar aches and pains. Your hair and skin may also go through a transformation for the better…
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Topic: Doctors Forgot to Warn People With Breasts That the Covid Vaccine Could Affect Their Next Mammogram “So let me tell you about this medical scare I’ve been having for the last few days,” was the opening line from my mother during our bi-weekly FaceTime call. Like countless women, she’d gone in for her annual…
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Topic: Work and social strain increase women’s risk of coronary heart disease According to a new study, the combined effect of stress from social interactions and paid work increases women’s likelihood of developing coronary heart disease (CHD) by 21%. The study also found that high stress life events were linked with a 12% increase in…
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Topic: Higher BMI in childhood may help protect women against breast cancer in later life, both before and after the menopause A study of more than 173,000 women in Denmark, presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO) held online this year, suggests that girls with a higher body mass index (BMI) during childhood are…
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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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