To Be Mom

An advocacy group has urged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban birth control pills made by Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Akzo Nobel NV unit Organon BioSciences. They have postulated that the pills carry the risk of dangerous blood clots, thrombosis, which was also the characteristic of older contraceptives. Older oral contraceptives contain estrogen [...]

Portugal’s Socialist government has pushed a law of legalizing abortion, bypassing an earlier promise to hold a referendum on the issue. Although, previously abortions were allowed in cases of rape, a health threat to the mother or serious fetal abnormality. However, the new proposals would give abortion consent to all women until the 10th week [...]

A recent study has revealed a strange fact about figures of pre-term births. The study showed that number of pre-mature babies is three time higher among African-American women when compared to their white counter parts. The conclusion that African women frequently delivered prematurely was reached after assessing more than 70,000 births. Apart from that, the [...]

More and more would be moms in the US are at a higher risk of birth complications and the reasons attributed for the mounting trend is higher age, diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure. Pregnant patients of advanced maternal age (AMA) are more prone to gestational diabetes mellitus, preeclampsia, placenta previa and intrauterine growth restriction, [...]

Tennessee would keep a record on the number of abortions by gathering death certificates for aborted fetuses under a bill introduced in the General Assembly. The move would also likely to maintain public accounts on which women are having abortions. Rep. Stacey Campfield stated, All these people who say they are pro-life – at least [...]

Most of the crisis pregnancy centers in the U.S. are working to end abortion. Deborah Wood, the CEO of Asheville Pregnancy Support Services in Asheville, North Carolina helps pregnant girls in providing emergency housing if their parents threaten to throw them out. Free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds are done too, if required. The women are [...]

Who doesn’t want bright children? Eat fish and save all the money you will be spending on your children polishing their mental and social skills. The health experts say that the amount of sea food should be restricted as they may contain dangerous pollutants which maybe harmful to the child. On the contrary, research has [...]

Pregnant moms should stay away from environmental chemicals, to be found in products like plastics and pesticides, because exposure to such chemicals may turn an unborn child more susceptible to obesity in its later life. Prof. Frederick Vom Saal, of Missouri-Columbia University expounded this view after he found that mice exposed to bisphenol-A (BPA) before [...]

Adverse outcomes in the next birth are more common among women who deliver their first child by cesarean section than those who deliver their first child vaginally. The findings have been based on data collected between 1998 to 2003 for the second pregnancies of more than 8000 women who previously underwent cesarean section and more [...]

Why there’s so much of hullabaloo over donating eggs? It’s completely a choice made by women themselves. One ethicist is of the view that eggs have become ‘commoditized.’ Well, when there is no hassle in donating organs like kidney, eyes, heart and so on then I don’t see there should have any kind of problem [...]