What Doctors Don't Tell YouEver since palaeolithic artists carved those voluptuous Venus figures, fertility symbols have been fat. In these earliest representations of women, the female sexual features the breasts and mons ...
New evidence suggests that severe emotional stress during early pregnancy can cause congenital malformations. ...
The mainstay of modern obstetric diagnosis is the ultrasound scan (or sonography). Similar to radar, real-time scanners employ very-high-frequency pulsed sound waves (3.5-7 mHz, or 3.5-7 million cycles per second)
Pregnant women are less likely to suffer pre eclampsia very high blood pressure if the father of the child is also a regular lover. ...
Medicine is finally waking up to the benefits of pre conceptual care. ...
The number of women giving birth over the age of 35 is steadily increasing. According to one estimate, by the year 2000, 40 per cent of births in the UK will be to women of 30 or over ( J Langford ...
Women who take Prozac (fluoxetine) while pregnant are more than twice as likely to give birth to a baby with minor defects. ...
Ultrasound scans can predict Down’s syndrome. A nuchal scan measures the depth of the dark fluid-filled space at the back of the baby’s neck at 10-13 weeks of pregnancy. If the space is thicker than usual, your baby may be at risk of Down’s.
The anti-AIDS drug AZT (Retrovir) is suddenly being pushed as a treatment for preventing HIV-positive mothers from passing on the condition to their unborn children. ...
Hospitals should stop routinely inducing births after a pregnancy has reached 42 weeks, according to Linda Cardozo, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at King's College Hospital. ...
