To Be Mom

With science probing deeper into medical problems, there is a need to not only be informed by keeping abreast with latest research but also by taking necessary precautions. Some risk of asthma and allergic reactions in humans have been traced back to the prenatal stage in the American Thoracic Society’s International Conference, Toronto, Canada. The predisposition to such health problems was attributed not only to birth order but also to the very process of childbirth.

If you are planning to conceive, you no longer need to depend on luck to have a baby of the gender you desire. If you want to conceive a girl, you simply need to cut down on your calorie intake and if you want a boy, just take a diet rich in calories. According to recent research findings of the British scientists of Exeter and Oxford universities the gender of the conceived fetus depends on the diet that a woman takes during conception. The lower the energy levels of food consumed, the more the chances of conceiving a female.

Ask any pregnant lady and she will tell you how sometimes they feel an urge to eat specific things or taste some specific flavor. The urge is pretty great and here is another way out, the Womb lollipops. Yeah! The name tells you all. These lollipops come in a variety of flavors like chamomile, lavender, ginger, red raspberry leaf and peppermint, which make them perfect to keep near especially when you are going to be a mom. These lollipops are safe too as they are natural, dye free, preservative free. They are even specified as non-GMO, making them completely pure and natural. Perfect as a gift too!

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While many new moms are busy deciding on whether to feed her baby with breast milk or exclusively bottled milk, many ponders on the reason for a child to grow intelligent on breastfeeding! Yes, it is already a well-established fact that breast-fed babies tend to grow up to be more intelligent compared to their exclusively bottle-fed counterparts. But, the question on ‘why’ and ‘how’ on ‘the intelligence quotient link’ has been established only recently after about 100 years of debate on it.

If you are living close to a highway during pregnancy, be advised that your baby will suffer some consequences. A recent study has proved that there is a direct correlation between the unborn infants and the proximity to the highway.

History shows that religion and society have twisted, turned and changed according to human whims and fancies, at time for good and at times for worse. But hypocrisy that lies inside human hearts has never yielded to agree on this. There have been numerous such topics till date, which never let us see the truth. A truth that is born on the day we are born, a right to live.

Abortion was legalized in many countries to help women who can’t take care of the child and to reduce to misery of such mothers. Now it has turned so wild that almost one third of pregnant women decide to opt for it. Recently, when the Archbishop Rowan Williams was giving his views on the abortion act in Britain, he said that it’s quite surprising that when abortion was an option for extreme cases, it has turned out to be used for pleasure now a days. Women these days get all sorts of abortive drugs to avoid pregnancy and it has become quite common, people do not have qualms about it. Not forgetting the fact that, the consequence of such acts can’t be ignored.

The 21st century career oriented woman want to have control over everything. It’s even more so in the western countries where women choose to delay having babies for varying reasons. One of the methods to help them do so is ‘Egg Freezing’.

According to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), the procedure of freezing eggs is uncertain. It insists on giving counseling to women who opt for this procedure. The opinion differs among clinical experts and critics. It’s not wrong to say that most women would like to opt for this as if this is a safety locker, which can be opened, and things retrieved at any given time; at the same time it’s a boon for the to-be-mothers who want to postpone having a family for purely health reasons, say for example a women undertaking cancer treatment might be afraid that her baby would be affected.

Here’s some health watch for the pregnant woman. If you are pregnant, you are not supposed to eat too much fish. The right amount and right kind of fish does matter when you are pregnant. At least, that’s what the Food and Drug administration(FDA) in U.S. recommends.

The advice has been issued by the FDA in collaboration with the EPA. As per guideline, pregnant women should eat no less than 12 ounces of fish per week.Although, no upper limit has been set yet.The fish types include salmon, tuna, sardines and Mackerel.

A recent study claims that pregnant women and breastfeeding mums should consume at least twelve ounces of fish in a week to get omega-3 fatty acids. Omega-3 fatty acids present in fish & seafood’s should be consumed during pregnancy because it is very important and required by the body like we need minerals and vitamins for normal body growth.

According to Danish researchers arduous exercises during early pregnancy can triple the risk of miscarriage. More than seven hours of exercise a week including jogging, ball games, and racket sports can increase the risk of spontaneous abortion.

A woman forgets the pains she goes through the labor the minute she holds her baby in her arms. But, it’s really not easy when she has to go through the pains and doctors administer epidural to the ease the pain and make the process of delivery a comfortable one.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has now offered guidelines to doctors and nurses on how to ease the labor pains. The guidelines say that drugs should not be offered when the delivery is progressing normally even if this means longer labors. The advice is to use water pool as an effective epidural for easy delivery and also advises the mid-wives to constantly smile, talk and reassure women during the delivery.

I would like to see more women using water and fewer women using the types of pain relief that are less effective

Says Dr Julia Sanders, a consultant midwife.

The institute stresses that women should be given information and support to make an informed decision about “where to give birth that is right for her and her baby”. The women may chose to give birth at home if they are armed with the right information and are assured a one-to-one care in labor though the chances of women opting for a home deliver is far less due to the shortage of midwives. Most women feel comfortable with the idea of delivery in a hospital as they are assured of clinical intervention in case of emergencies.

HypnoBirthing is a another unique antenatal program that teaches simple but specific self-hypnosis and relaxation techniques for an easier, more gentle birth that is often accompanied by a significant reduction in pain. HypnoBirthing is not about “training mothers to give birth”-when undisturbed we already know how to do that instinctively; it is about getting rid of fear and allowing our bodies and minds to relax so we can birth our babies gently, according to midwiferytoday.

Relax women, Babies need not be hard work after all!!!(no, not at the moment atleast :))

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With a new case of autism diagnosed nearly every 20 minutes in the United States, one in every 150 children born in the country have autism, which goes with the estimation of approximately 1 million suffering from the brain development disorder.

Astoundingly, every year, 24,000 new cases of autism are diagnosed in the U.S. alone and the researchers all set to decode the cause at the roots, have come up with a surprising, but interesting finding.

Alcohol consumption during pregnancy should be completely avoided. This is because alcohol passes through the placenta and can cause very serious birth defects in the growing fetus, like stunted growth, low birth weight, and even brain damage. This disorder is known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS).

Smoking among women is nothing unusual, but is disadvisable during pregnancy. It is not just a decades-old message, generally taken casually by many women. If are a mom-to-be and have not been able to or bother to quit smoking - do you know, your this habit might be responsible for your depression?!

Though, you may straightaway rebuff this apparently unlikely link, this is exactly what the emerging science suggests.