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Source: Journal of Human Reproduction; BBC Health Must be the wooden shoes. Researchers from Vrije University (between Amstelveenseweg and De Boelelaan Streets in Amsterdam –Look it it up if you don’t believe me), have studied the development of eggs in over 500 Dutch women to determine why women over age 35 have twins more frequently than [...] Source: U.S. National Institutes of Health; Journal of the American Medical Association, February 3, 2010 I know, I know…Let them sleep on their backs…No wait, only on their stomachs…No wait, on their backs but no pillows…or blankets…No smoking…No pets…Never in bed with you… Perhaps it’s no wonder why the Amercian Academy of Pediatrics is constantly revising guidelines [...] Source: BBC Health; British Journal of Psychiatry Australian researchers took time away from wrestling crocodiles and protecting babies from dingoes to study 1,241 women in the perinatal and postnatal time frame (Before and after they were pregnant). Why? to determine whether memory and concentration problems are really a cognitive defect of pregnancy. Their conclusions? Sorry, neither pregnancy [...] Source: BBC Health; Karolinska Institute (Sweeden) Admittedly it was a small, focused study of 36 newborns, 17 of whose mothers smoked during pregnancy. It is, however, alarming and instructive. Babies that had been exposed to cigarette smoke in utero (While in Mommy’s belly) demonstrated abnormal heart rates and blood pressures. But that’s not all. . .rather than [...] Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention According to the CDC, some 3,000 pregnancies a year are ffected by spina bifida or anencephaly (, neural tube defects caused by the incomplete development of the brain and spinal cord). Studies have shown that women taking 400 mcg of folic acid daily both before and during pregnancy [...] Source: US Dpt. of Health & Human Services; www.womens.health.gov; Wall Street Journal The vast majority of women who are pregnant are also taking at least one prescription drug. In our modern, hectic and stressful society, antidepressant and anti-anxiety medications are among them. But are they really safe? The answer is we really don’t exactly know…exactly. There are [...] Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, BBC Health, MS Society Controversy on the MS (Multiple Sclerosis) front. Multiple Sclerosis is an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system which can cause severe disability and death. A joint Belgian and Dutch study tracking 330 women with MS over the course of 18 years suggest that for [...] Source: Diabetes Care, 2009; 32: 1639-1643. A recently published study on Hypergylcemia (hyper = too much) and it’s effect upon pregnant women suggests (because we never really know for sure) that glucose levels at the High-normal end during the first trimester increase the risk of poor pregnancy outcomes including gestational diabetes. The current recommended screening for [...] |
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