Women Pregnancy

While the pregnancy develops, the body begins to make many changes and adjustments to help with infant growth. Some body changes are not felt or seen by pregnant women. Some changes quite disturbing body of pregnant women and some changes do not interfere. Body changes that occur during pregnancy is normal and in fact it can be overcome if disturbing. Below are some changes happen during the pregnancy.

Pain In Stomach
Lower abdominal pain is common in pregnancy, especially in the second trimester. The pain has many causes, but the most common is pain in the ligaments in circumference, which is the muscles that hold the uterus in order to remain upright. When the uterus grows increasingly large, increasingly stretched ligaments in circumference, the more prone to stress. As a result, the pain often occurs even more so when the pregnant mother move.

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Your baby may need vitamins to grow well and healthy. He needs it in order to have strong bones, healthy teeth and also to “build” the blood, so to avoid anemia. Well, almost all babies get all the necessary vitamins and minerals (like vitamin A, calcium, iron, etc.) through the intake of foods they consume. So, even if your baby really need the vitamins and minerals, but they do not really need the supplement every day, except when he was born premature or have certain health problems. For newborns, all vitamin and mineral needs will be met through breast milk. So, if you want your child is getting adequate intake of vitamins and minerals, you can simply increase the quality of your milk, simply by eating a balanced composition. If necessary, by referral only your doctor can consume vitamin supplements.
Don’t think that consumes many vegetables can make your baby get many vitamins from it, because vegetables and fruits contain only some kinds of vitamins, like vitamin C, E, K and some types of vitamin B. Vitamin A, B6, B12 and D, can be obtained through animal sources such as liver, milk, and various processed products. Read more!

A syndrome marked by a sudden increase in blood pressure and a build up of protein in the urine due to stress on the kidneys is Preeclampsia. Early-onset severe preeclampsia is a particularly serious form that arises before the 34th week of pregnancy. It contributes to about 15 percent of preterm births in the U.S. each year, while arises in about 2 to 3 percent of pregnancies
Vitamin D levels were generally lower among 50 women with early severe preeclampsia compared with those of 100 healthy pregnant women, founded by the researcher in the current study. The average vitamin D level in the former group was 18 nanograms per milliliter (ng/mL), oppose 32 ng/mL in the latter group.
An adequate level of vitamin D in the blood has turn into a debate. Merely, many experts say that at least 32 ng/mL is needed for overall health. Read more!

Is breastfeeding important? It was an old argument that concern with mother. They still confuse if breastfeeding is meeting the nutrient requirement of the child or not. A lot of study said that breastfeeding is meeting the requirement. Since, in some cases breast may not supply milk, we provide tips which may help you to increase breast milk supply.

Tips for increasing breast milk supply

1. Frequently pumping or nursing. You may feed your baby in every 2-3 hours. You can also add pumping with the nursing of your child. Pumping after nursing the baby can also be done.
2. To help in increasing milk production, feed your baby with both of the breasts.
3. It would be better to nurse the baby until he himself stops feeding or sleeps.
4. Do double pumping through an electric pump that should be done for 10-15 minutes. If you can’t nurse your baby on breasts, this helps in increasing Prolactin hormone level which is responsible for increasing milk production in the body. Read more!

Recently, abortion is the most controversial problem. When some people are talking about abortion, some of them can concur with it and the others say their dispute.

What is abortion exactly? Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus as the spontaneous expulsion of a human fetus during the first 12 weeks of gestation.(Webster Online, Def. 1).

Some people concur with abortion. First, they think it is absolutely the right of mother. If she does not want to have a baby thus she may make that baby will not be born. There are many cases which happen on women to compose their goals and ambition in life with taking responsibility and caring for a child. On the contrary, women believe that having a child is a longlife responsibility. They cannot put aside the baby after they have it. Read more!

While sex is healthy during pregnancy, it must be remembered that during this stage, not all positions are recommended because some of them can be uncomfortable for both the mother and the father. It is important to know that dialogue and understanding between couples, that we achieve sexual pleasure.
Remember that during the practice of sex, pregnant women should not suffer pain or pressure for any reason, for that reason the most recommended are those that do not produce abdominal pressure.

These are the most comfortable sexual positions and recommended during pregnancy. Read more!

Obese women can gain little or no weight during pregnancy — and even lose a few pounds — without harming their babies and that there is no need to eat for two people, new research suggests. The researchers stated that those severely obese and pregnant should actually lose weight during pregnancy. Researchers from St. Louis University School of Medicine held a population-based study to look at the effects of weight gain during pregnancy in obese women. They looked at over 120,000 obese pregnant women to come to their conclusions.

The study found that women of different weights should gain different amounts of weight during their pregnancy, while some of the more obese women would be better off losing some of the extra pounds. The Institute of Medicine???s current guidelines say women should gain at least 15 pounds during pregnancy, without placing an upper limit on pregnancy weight gain. Read more!

At last, a good reason to have a baby when you’re over 35 – it’s been found to reduce the risk of ovarian cancer.

Researchers at the University of Southern California discovered that women who had their child over 35 lowered their risk of ovarian cancer by 58 per cent, compared to women who’d never had children.
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Women who suffer through morning sickness during their pregnancies actually may be fortunate because they may have a lower risk of breast cancer later in life, according to new research. A study has found that mothers-to-be who have morning sickness are 30 per cent less likely to develop breast cancer than those who do not. Dr Jo Freudenheim from the University at Buffalo in New York reported the finding this week in Boston, at the annual meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research.
Freudenheim and her colleagues interviewed 1001 women with recently diagnosed breast cancer, ages 35 to 79, and 1917 “control” subjects matched to the case patients by age, race and county of residence.

Jaworowicz’s research, which was presented at the Society for Epidemiologic Research’s annual meeting in Boston, Mass., found no association of other pregnancy-related medical conditions — pregnancy-induced hypertension, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes or weight gain — and breast-cancer risk. Read more!

PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) is a health problem that can affect a woman???s menstrual cycle, fertility, hormones, insulin production, heart, blood vessels, and appearance. It’s hormonal imbalance linked to the way the body processes insulin after it has been produced by the pancreas to regulate blood sugar (glucose). Features of PCOS may manifest at any age, ranging from childhood (premature puberty), teenage years (hirsutism, menstrual abnormalities), early adulthood and middle life (infertility, glucose intolerance) to later life (diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease).

Insulin resistance seems to be a key feature in polycystic ovarian syndrome. The underlying cause of PCOS, Insulin Resistance, has many factors that contribute to its presence in the body. The increased incidence of insulin resistance occurs in all PCOS women, not simply obese women. When someone is insulin resistant, this means that cells throughout the body do not readily respond to the insulin circulating in the blood. Read more!

Eating apples while pregnant may give a new meaning to an apple a day keeping the doctor away, according to a study published in Thorax online on Friday. Mothers who eat apples during pregnancy may protect their children from developing asthma later in life. This new research from the Netherlands and Scotland tracked dietary intake by nearly 2,000 pregnant women and examined the effects of the maternal diet on airway development in more than 1,200 of their children five years later.
The children of mothers who ate apples had a significantly reduced risk for the development of asthma and childhood wheezing, according to researchers at Aberdeen University.

This study focuses on medical evaluations for asthma and related symptoms (i.e., wheezing) when the children were five years old. As a result of the evaluations cited in this research, other than apples, there were no consistent associations found between prenatal consumption of a range of healthful foods and asthma in the 1253 children who were evaluated. Read more!

Ready to get pregnant? These easy health and lifestyle changes can increase your odds. Despite everything you’ve been told since puberty, getting pregnant doesn’t always happen the minute you have unprotected sex. “In any one month, the chances for the average couple are just one in five,” says Alice D. Domar, Ph.D., director of the Mind/Body Center for Women’s Health at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. But that doesn’t mean they need high-tech intervention. “About 85 percent of couples will be successful after trying for a year,” says Domar, “but they should still be aware of the lifestyle habits that can raise or lower their chances.” If you are currently trying to have a baby or would like to soon, try these eight simple steps to protect and enhance your fertility.

1. Get On A Regular Sex Schedule
The standard advice to have sex midcycle isn’t a surefire road to pregnancy. Read more!

Danish researchers report that moderate drinking moderate amounts of caffeine during pregnancy women does not cause premature or underweight births. Researchers found no evidence of a link between prematurity, birth weight and the amount of caffeine consumed by motherstobe.
Previous studies suggested caffeine might harm unborn babies as it stays in the system longer in pregnant women, passing easily to a growing baby. Conflicting results from earlier studies “have puzzled public health authorities and in some countries pregnant women are warned against caffeine consumption,” the researchers write in British Medical Journal.

Unlike other research projects in which women who had given birth were asked how much coffee they drank while pregnant, the Danish scientists monitored 1,207 pregnant coffee lovers who were randomly selected to drink either a caffeinated or decaffeinated brew during the second half of the pregnancy. The group was split into two, with 568 women drinking ordinary instant coffee and 629 drinking decaffeinated. Each woman was regularly monitored to check her caffeine intake, including from drinks such as cola. Read more!

The study conducted by the Australian team at the University of Queensland included nearly 7,500 participants, 3,000 mothers and their children, claims that smoking during pregnancy substantially increases the risk of giving birth to babies who eventually turn into smokers. The researchers were interested in smoking habits of mothers during pregnancy and smoking patterns of offspring during adolescence. Children whose mothers smoked while pregnant were almost three times as likely to start smoking regularly at age 14.
Smoking patterns among children whose mothers stopped smoking while pregnant but then resumed the habit were similar to those whose mothers had never smoked, according to the study published in the British Medical Journal ahead of publication in Tobacco Control.

Children of the 1,000 women who had smoked during pregnancy were three times more likely to start smoking by the age of 14 and twice as likely afterwards compared to other children. Read more!

What are stretch marks? Stretch marks are the nasty lines of stretched tissues that appear on the upper thighs or the stomach right after pregnancy. Stretch marks also appear after a person has relatively gained or increased weight abruptly. During weight increase and height growth, the production of collagen by our body is aborted. Collagen is our skin’s natural protein that gives our skin its natural texture. Once there is an imbalance in the necessary amount of collagen in our skin, it begins to wrinkle and fold at certain areas. Our skin begins to resemble long and think cat-like dry and gray scratches across our stomach and over our thighs, and thus begins the occurrence of the perennial problem and nightmare of women: stretch marks!
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