Can a Pregnant Woman’s Oral Health Affect her Unborn Baby?
Good oral health is an important part of our general health. But researchers have found that an expectant mother’s oral health also has the potential to affect her unborn infant’s health. Bacteria from...
View ArticleOxygen Shortage at Birth Is Usually the Result of Human Error
Mistakes by medical staff are usually to blame in cases where a baby suffers a lack of oxygen at birth, according to a new study from Norway. Birth asphyxiation, or hypoxia, happens when a baby does...
View ArticleDoes Autism Begin in the Womb?
With autism rates soaring at an alarming rate in the United States, medical researchers are looking for answers as to what causes this mysterious condition, both on an anatomical and physiologic level....
View ArticleWhat Things Should a Pregnant Woman Do to Reduce Risk of Pre-Term Birth?
According to the March of Dimes, a woman can take important steps to improve her chances of carrying her unborn baby to full term. Pre-term birth is defined as a baby who is born before 37 weeks of...
View ArticleHow to Protect Your Unborn Baby from Toxic Substances
It’s always smart to do our best to avoid artificial chemicals and other harmful substances in our lives; but it is all the more important for a woman who is expecting a child. A baby developing in the...
View ArticleStudy Finds Link Between Pesticides and Autism, Developmental Delays
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, MIND Institute have found that exposure to certain synthetic pesticides is linked to a higher risk of autism and developmental delays in children...
View ArticleCigarettes and Nicotine Products in Pregnancy All Linked to Higher ADHD Risk...
For years, doctors have been urging women who get pregnant to give up cigarettes due to the many serious dangers that they pose to unborn babies and pregnant women. In the age of nicotine patches and...
View ArticleAs Few as Five Alcoholic Drinks a Week Could Harm Male Sperm, Says New Study
More than a hundred studies in recent years have documented the apparent benefit of moderate alcohol consumption to the health of men and women. One to two daily drinks for men, and one for women, are...
View ArticleFetal Exposure to Chemicals and I.Q.
Exposure to Common Chemicals Before Birth Linked to Lower I.Q., Says Study Two chemicals commonly found in plastics have been linked to lower I.Q.’s in children when the mothers were exposed to higher...
View ArticleBenefits of Natural Third Stage in Labor
Natural (“Physiological”) Third Stage in Child Birth You may have heard about the controversy regarding what the best time is, to clamp and cut the umbilical cord once an infant is born. And you may...
View ArticleWhy Is the Amniotic Sac Manually Ruptured During Birth?
Amniotic Sac Is Ruptured by Doctors (and Midwives) More Often than Necessary, According to Studies and Experts We are all appreciative of the advances that have been made in safely delivering infants...
View ArticleMore Children Harmed by Pregnant Mom’s Drinking?
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders May Affect More American Children than Previously Estimated, Study Found A study published in late 2014 in the journal Pediatrics found that between 2.4 and 4.8 percent...
View ArticleSmoking During Pregnancy May Slow Nervous System Development
4-D Ultrasounds Show Fetuses of Mothers Who Smoke Make More Facial Movements A study published in late March, 2015 showed that fetuses of mothers who smoke cigarettes during pregnancy had more facial...
View ArticleOpioid Prescriptions and Birth Defects
Many U.S. Women of Child-Bearing Age Use Opioid Painkillers: CDC Warns about Birth Defects A report released earlier this year by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that close to...
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