Pregnancy & Childbirth

Abortion Linked To Later Preterm Births
by eNotAlone.com
There is a link between abortion history and an increased risk of subsequent premature births and long-term complications, reports a new huge German study. Some previous studies have been pointing out to the connection, but the present research showed

Too Much Of Vitamin E Dangerous During Pregnancy
by eNotAlone.com
High levels of vitamin E at an early stage of pregnancy pose greater risk for developing heart defect in infants, according to Dutch scientists. In a new study, the researchers from Rotterdam examined 600 mothers - 276 women whose babies were born

Iodine Lack In Prenatal Vitamins
by eNotAlone.com
Most prenatal multivitamins marketed in the United States, do not contain all the iodine they state on the label, potentially posing infants at risk of poor brain development, researchers reported earlier this week.

Early Newborn Screening Saves Their Lives
by eNotAlone.com
A March of Dimes report released on February 18, 2009 says that from now on all the 50 states and The District of Columbia will require hospitals to screen newborns for a range of life-threatening diseases and medical conditions.

Botox Is Not Recommended During Pregnancy
by eNotAlone.com
Medical professionals in Australia are giving pregnant women their warning to avoid Botox injections and other wrinkle treatments made with botulinum toxin. The warning came after the report by the Sydney Morning Herald about a case in which a child born

Obese Pregnancy Linked To Birth Defects
by eNotAlone.com
Women who are obese while being pregnant have significantly greater risk of delivering babies with certain birth defects, than women with normal weight, according to a new report. Obese women are almost twice as likely to have a baby with neural tube

Pregnancy Does Not Affect Breast Cancer
by eNotAlone.com
A new study conducted at The University of Texas finds that young women who develop breast cancer during pregnancy, or who are diagnosed soon afterwards, do not have any differences in disease severity or overall survival, compared to other young women

Summer-Born Children Tend To Be Taller And Stronger
by eNotAlone.com
Future mothers-to-be lucky enough to be blooming in the hot months should get enough sun to increase their vitamin D levels just by walking around outside or even sunbathing. But pregnant women whose babies are expected to be born between November and May

Is It Possible Yo Prevent Postpartum Depression?
by eNotAlone.com
The latest research suggests that there could be a way to predict which pregnant moms-to-be are at risk for later postpartum depression. The research shows that women with an increased levels of corticotrophin-releasing hormone (CRH)

Autism Linked To Premature Birth
by eNotAlone.com
A new U.S. study examined children who were born more than three months before a due date and provided fresh evidence, linking pre-term birth and autism. The study included nearly 1,000 children born very prematurely, at least three months before their

Pregnancy and Diet
by eNotAlone.com
There is a huge number of children in the United States that recently have been classified as obese and diagnosed with obesity-related diseases, such as type -2 diabetes, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), and the weight of an obese child's mother

Dangers of Smoking During Pregnancy
by eNotAlone.com
Australia's New South Wales Cancer Institute in its study has come to the conclusion that pregnant women who smoke greatly increase the risk their child will develop a life-threatening cancer, such as leukemia (cancer of the blood or bone marrow).

Early C-Section Affects Babies
by eNotAlone.com
According to the latest large new study published on Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine elective (non-emergency) Caesarian sections can cause a variety of health problems and be very dangerous for newborns if performed early.

Introduction
Classic Biblical Baby Names: Timeless Names for Modern Parents
by Judith Tropea
The perfect name is one of the first and most important gifts parents can give their children - and often one of the most challenging decisions of parenthood. Expectant parents who want their child's name to be meaningful will find Classic Biblical Baby

The Mother and Her Child
by William S. Sadler, M.D., Lena K. Sadler, M.D.
There can be no grander, more noble, or higher calling for a healthy, sound-minded woman than to become the mother of children. She may be the cola borer of the business man, the overworked housewife of the tiller of the soil

Papers on Health
by John Kirk
Simple remedies such as we advocate are found of immense service in mitigating both the pains of child-birth and the troubles coming before and after it.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
by George M. Gould, M.D., Walter L. Pyle, M.D.
In the consideration of prenatal anomalies, the first to be discussed will be those of extrauterine pregnancy. This abnormalism has been known almost as long as there has been any real knowledge of obstetrics. In the writings

The Prospective Mother: A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy
by J. Morris Slemons
This book, written for women who have no special knowledge of medicine, aims to answer the questions which occur to them in the course of pregnancy. Directions for safeguarding their health have been given in detail, and emphasis has been placed upon

Disturbances of the Heart
by Oliver T. Osborne, M.D.
It is so serious a thing for a woman with valvular lesion or other cardiac defect to become pregnant that no young woman with heart disease should be allowed to marry. Perhaps every normal heart during pregnancy hypertrophies somewhat to do the extra work

Parent and Child, Volume III
by Mosiah Hall
In common with every organism the infant develops from a single germ cell of almost microscopic size. Wrapped in this tiny cell are all the possibilities of structure and character that combine to form the complicated bodily organism and the particular