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Even if obese women eat healthy during pregnancy, their babies may suffer future health problems. So it is advisable to lose body weight before going in for pregnancy, says a news study.
“We can see fat sequestered in the placentas of obese mothers when it should be going to the baby to support its [...]
Well, we have all heard the usual – Smoking is injurious to health; but let this statement out from another ear. How often do we categorize smoking as one of the deadly hazards to humans!
Let us put it this way, smoking if it can bring to you moments of eternal bliss, it can whisk [...]
Chronic pelvic pain is a common condition for most women. Often worse during menstrual periods, pelvic pain occurs due to conditions like past pelvic infection, cramping pain and irritable bowel syndrome. Here are the top five reasons for pelvic pain that you should take care to avoid.
Cramping pain. The cramping pain takes [...]
Mostly felt in the head and neck region, a hot flash is an extreme feeling of warmth experienced by women who are in the early stages of menopause. A product of complex hormonal changes, accompanied by the ageing process, hot flashes happen because of the declining levels of estrogen in the body. As a matter [...]
Caffeine intake by breastfeeding women may trigger wakefulness and irritability in their babies as they are unable to metabolize or excrete the compound, says an expert.
Ruth Lawrence, a paediatrician from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, told Jack E. James, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Caffeine Research, that “usually [...]
Veena, my friend, expressed her excitement about the upcoming vacation and the accompanying stress points related to it. The narrative is in first person to facilitate effective communication.
It’s that time of the year again. Vacations, vacations …only a couple of months to go and then- yippee! Vacation means break from the daily [...]
Today, an increasing number of women in urban India are opting for late pregnancies. Being financially secure before the first child is born is gaining precedence over being a young mother. Additionally, women in their mid to late 30s are, by and large, in better control of their emotions. However, this phenomenon of [...]
When a woman has high blood pressure or high blood sugar levels during pregnancy, this may help predict her chances of developing heart disease perhaps as early as middle age, a new study suggests. British researchers were hoping to understand why women who have certain common pregnancy-related complications tend to be at higher risk for heart [...]
One of the most dreaded side-effects of pregnancy are stretch marks. But not every woman needs to worry about these ugly scars. If you take action well in time, you never have to worry about them.
Pregnancy is the time a woman glows and her skin is at its best. Magical as pregnancy may be, [...]
