Pregnancy changes your body around in so many ways. When you’re pregnant, your body responds differently to your environment, your diet and even to itself. These things manifest themselves in a variety of pregnancy symptoms, such as morning sickness or back pain. One area that some women experience some body changes is with swollen gums [...]
Pregnancy has its own kind of stress. There are unique pressures, both physical and circumstantial, that tend to come to bear on a pregnant woman. Even during the pregnancy process, stress can vary somewhat between the trimesters of pregnancy. During that first trimester, you’re going through tremendous hormonal changes as well as the emotions surrounding [...]
There are, as you well know, many conditions that can affect the pregnant woman. Some of them, like morning sickness, tend to be little more than an annoyance. Others tend to be more serious. Some conditions arise only during pregnancy. This is the case with gestational diabetes, although this condition can be much more serious [...]
When you think about pregnancy and delivering a baby, you naturally assume that you’re talking about having an obstetrician as your health care provider. After all, when it comes to the medical field obstetricians are the ones with the most training and education. That said, many women choose to use another provider for their baby, [...]
Also known as an OB/GYN, an obstetrician is a health care provider that handles a number of different women’s health services. This includes things like your annual Pap test, for example. An OB/GYN is trained to handle complications that may happen during pregnancy, to deliver babies, and to help care for the mother during the [...]
When you’re pregnant, the more you can do to stay fit and help your body get ready for labor and delivery, the easier that whole process will be. That’s not to say that labor and delivery will ever be easy or painless, but the better shape your body is in the less likely you are [...]
One of the biggest concerns that some women have when they’re faced with the prospect of having a cesarean section delivery is whether or not they will be able to have a vaginal birth in the future. Around one in four women will have a C-section, and so this is a tremendously common concern. The [...]
One of the more frustrating things for a woman who is hoping to have a positive natural birthing experience is the need for a C-section. In some cases, however, a Cesarean is just going to be in the best interests of both you and your baby. Figuring out how to cope with the procedure after [...]
Over the past four decades, we’ve seen a steady increase in the number of births via cesarean section. Around a quarter of women will have a cesarean birth in the United States. There is some controversy to this statistic, as the World Health Organization believes that the cesarean rate should, ideally, be around ten to [...]
So much of what goes on during pregnancy is about choices. You need to make the right choices nutritionally in order to make sure you and your baby get what you need. You need to make choices about how to manage side effects like morning sickness. You need to make choices about baby names, about [...]
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