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Moms wishing to give birth to a baby should make sure that they get adequate sunshine because vitamin D that our body gets from sunlight has been found cutting the risk of child developing diseases such as diabetes and thyroid. This notion is the result of the study, which researchers conducted on mice.

The importance of sunshine due to vitamin D is already well known. The deficiency of this vitamin may result in weak bones, rickets, and poorer immune system. Moreover, recent studies have associated insufficient exposure to sunshine with asthma.

So, now expectant moms should ensure regular but sensible sunshine along with nutritious diet.

Via: DNA India

Recent study revealed that couples who are trying to conceive prefer to exhaust thousands of pounds for the treatment. And still they are unable to get desired results plus they are at a risk of side effects.

Instead, they must go in for less invasive techniques. It is not only cheat but also result oriented.

Fertility experts tagged the fertility industry as ‘commercializing’ the treatment and resisting safer alternatives, which are less lucrative. Geeta Nargund, an IVF doctor said,

Women are under the impression that more drugs, more eggs and more embryos mean better success rates. This is scientific evidence that that isn’t true.

Almost 30,000 couples have IVF in Britain every year and average success rates are 28.2% Natural IVF, also know as mild stimulation IVF, uses a single embryo implanted when the woman ovulates naturally after taking a low dose of artificial hormones. In standard IVF, two embryos are usually implanted after the ovaries are stimulated with large doses of hormones, which risks menopausal-type symptoms and depression.

Doctors in the Netherlands discovered that the mild form was just as effective.

Findings have been based on the study of 404 women, who were under 38, half of whom underwent standard treatment and the other half-mild IVF. After a year, 43.4% of those undergoing mild IVF were pregnant, compared with 44.7% of those on standard treatment.

On average, the mild form takes four cycles to produce a pregnancy, compared with three in regular IVF. But the researchers say it is cheaper and is more healthy for the mother to undergo.

Hence, all those who are planning for an IVF, the better judgment would be to go in for cheaper and reliable treatments.

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An allergy developed by child is directly proportional to what her/his mother consumed during pregnancy.

The findings are based on survey, which studied the associations between maternal diet during the last 4 weeks of pregnancy and allergies in progeny at age 2 years.

The information of 2641 kids was put into consideration. It postulated that 17.7% of children developed eczema, 9.3% were sensitized to food allergens, most commonly milk and eggs, and 4.8% were sensitized to inhaled allergens.

The finding also revealed that consuming fish during pregnancy safeguarded infants against eczema.

In spite of these noticeable associations, the scholars asserted,

before any recommendations can be made, randomized clinical intervention trials should be performed to confirm the cause-effect relation observed in the present study.

But I think, mother’s diet does affect in developing allergies or some kind of health complications in infants.

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Today I got to know a very interesting thing, so thought of sharing it with you all, since I am sure you too must not be aware to this one, it says that a diet rich in ice cream and other high-fat dairy foods may lower the risk of one type of infertility. Can this really happen?

Scholars discovered that women who consume low fat dairy product do have trouble conceiving because of lack of ovulation than women who ate less than one serving of such foods a week.

On the other hand, women who consume at least one fatty dairy food a day were 27% less likely to have this problem.

Hey, it does not imply that you all, mothers to be, start having an ice cream three times day. Since it, all depends upon the dietary history of the women so it would be suggested that you must keep your healthy diet with low saturated fat intake by having one serving of high-fat dairy a day. This seems to be quite appropriate as some physicians opine a different view from the one stated above.

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Vitamin D deficiency cannot be averted by the daily intake of prenatal multivitamin supplements.

Recent study postulates that health complications, including rickets and vitamin D insufficiency, is a prevalent phenomenon in pregnancy and is especially common to women residing in the northern latitudes.

Vitamin D deficiency early in life is associated with rickets plus increased risk for type 1 diabetes, asthma and schizophrenia.

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Scholars from the UK and US asserted that if women are trying to conceive, they might gain success if they use the Clearblue Easy Fertility Monitor.

Dr. Jayne E. Ellis stated,

One known cause of failure to conceive is the mistiming of intercourse. In our studies, only one quarter of women knew when their fertile days were.

Hence, the device is put into practice, it measures two hormones in urine that increase in level in the days before ovulation, that provides a wider window at which to target intercourse to achieve pregnancy, said she.

Some 653 US volunteers who wanted to become pregnant assessed the credibility of the tool. The participants were randomly assigned to use or not use the device at home over two ovulatory cycles.

The pregnancy rate was considerably higher in the monitor group at 22.7% than 14.4% in the comparison group.

Thus, it could be assumed that by making out the fertile days of the cycle with a home test could help women become pregnant over just two cycles of use.

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High-frequency sound waves could capture an image of fetus by an obstetric ultrasound mechanism. And obstetricians usually ask to check on the fetus’s health at regular intervals throughout pregnancy.

As said by the Radiological Society of North America, an ultrasound may be used to verify:

• The presence and age of an embryo/fetus.
• Any congenital abnormalities.
• The location and position of the fetus and placenta.
• Multiple pregnancies.
• The amount of amniotic fluid that surrounds the fetus.
• Any abnormalities in the cervix or womb.

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A pregnancy hormone, prolactin, might help repair the damage to nerves caused by multiple sclerosis, (MS).

Researchers working on mice discovered that prolactin encourages production of myelin, the fatty substance that protects nerve cells.

Myelin is degraded by multiple sclerosis damaging nerves’ ability to transmit messages.

The newest discovery elevates hopes of new treatments for MS, and other neurological disorders, which potentially reverse, rather than stabilize symptoms.

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Women who were underweight when they were born are at greater risk of pre-eclampsia during pregnancy.

Pre-eclampsia is a common condition that causes high blood pressure and can put the mother’s life at risk.

The result is based on a study of more than 6,000 women under the age of 30 years.

The findings also gave a view that if their mothers too had pre-eclampsia, the risk was expected to be doubled. Thus, supporting the previous studies according to which pre-eclampsia run in families.

Low birth weight is also believed to be related to other conditions associated with high blood pressure, such as heart disease.

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Teen pregnancy is a growing fad among girls in Devon, they are of the view that babies are cute so go in for pregnancy and overlooking the other side of being a mom. In going with vogue, they actually put their childhood at stake.

A pregnant 14-year-old, Kizzy Neal, says that it is fashionable to be pregnant and so taking ‘inspiration’ from her, some four girls of the same class too have fallen pregnant since Christmas.

Family campaigners are of the view that the Government’s sex education policy had left teens with the ‘ridiculous but extremely worrying’ misconception that having a child was no different to getting a new handbag.

Her father Kevin, 43, blamed the rise in underage pregnancies on growing ‘gang culture’ where teenagers hang around drinking, taking drugs and having sex.

His wife, Kerry, 41, said, No-one was to blame for her getting pregnant apart from herself. She was defiant. There’s nothing for children to do in Paignton. I honestly think they get bored and think it’s a fashionable thing to get pregnant.

Personally, I feel this whole fad thing is outrageous. It seems as if the culture is seeing baby as a fashion accessory. What is the difference between these teens and animals? Both live for, sex and food.

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