What Doctors Don't Tell YouWomen who took diethylstilbestrol (DES) to prevent miscarriages during pregnancy in the Fifties and Sixties have a "statistically significant" increased risk of developing breast cancer (JAMA, 28 ...
Women who take zinc supplements during pregnancy will give birth to bigger babies, scientists have discovered. ...
Yet more evidence has emerged of the importance of women's nutrition in their having healthy babies. ...
Many women having babies complain of all sorts of aches and pains during pregnancy and after birth pains that seem all the more irritating because you have to consider carefully what you take to r ...
Consider what the theoretical risk factors for pre-eclampsia have in common. These risks include: being blood group AB (J Hum Hyperten, 1995; 9: 623-5), environmental poisons, impaired kidney and/ ...
* Prenatal perineal massage. There is significant evidence to show that you can increase the flexibility of your perineum by regularly massaging the tissue before giving birth. In a randomised controlled trial carried out across five hospitals in...
Pregnant women given epidurals during labour are more likely to experience a forceps delivery even if they are given a less powerful anesthetic which would allow them to participate more. ...
A tragedy has occurred in medicine. It is all because doctors have been so blinded by the brave new world of pharmacy they've been unwilling to believe that a cheap, reliable solution to a condi ...
Up to 80 per cent of women experience lower-back or pelvic pain during pregnancy, usually during the second or third trimester. As drug treatment can harm a developing fetus, pain management options are limited.
In 2001, the World Health Organization
Then, we have the mother-to-be who is looking forward to the big day but somewhat anxious about the pain involved. What natural forms of pain relief can she use to help her through the labour? Water births seem to get a big thumbs-up, judging by the...
