A new study in Denmark found that women who exercise intensively during the first phase of pregnancy are 3.7 times more likely to miscarry than pregnant women who don’t break a sweat.
The highest risk is during the first trimester, for women who play high impact sports or exercise strenuously for at least seven hours a week. After [...]

I’m thinking about the Grey’s Anatomy episode where a pregnant woman is admitted to the hospital with cancer. She is given the dreadful choice that has been given to most pregnant cancer patients: Delay treatment until delivery, which means risking the mother’s life, or start treatment during pregnant and most likely harm the baby. If I remember correctly, the woman [...]

That is what I was wondering after I read that Halle Berry took 35 pregnancy tests before one of them showed up positive!  She says she believed she was pregnant, but the tests kept on coming up negative.
According to WebMD, “The home tests have similar results to the pregnancy tests done on urine in most [...]

Do you sometimes feel like balancing your daily tasks while enduring things like the fatigue and discomfort of pregnancy should put you up there with Superwoman?
Milla Jovovich agrees. “I thought making action films was challenging, but this puts all of that in second place! I mean it’s hard, man. Women are amazing!”
Among her maternity woes, she complains [...]

Your teeth and gums need special attention during pregnancy. Conscientious brushing and flossing, eating a balanced diet and visiting your dentist regularly will help reduce dental problems that may accompany pregnancy.
Pregnant women who have gum disease may be more likely to have a premature, underweight babies. More research is needed to confirm why this is, but [...]

Baby Chaos has a page on Pain Relief Options, and at the very bottom it says, “Shouting, screaming and swearing; as loud as you like, it will make you feel better (don’t worry, the midwives have heard it all before). Chanting has a very calming and soothing effect, but it doesn’t quite give the satisfaction, [...]

If you are looking for a way to give birth naturally, yet minimize the pain that inevitably accompanies labor, you may want to investigate hypnosis. “Hypnomoms” use hypnosis to eliminate pain and fear from the birthing experience and induce relaxation. This technique is used to train the mind to “experience discomfort as only pressure” and [...]

I personally hate announcing my pregnancies. I don’t like the enthusiastic exclamations, the emotional tears my mother is famous for shedding on such occasions, and all such similar reactions. I make my husband do the announcing. So it’s no wonder that I have never had the urge to be “creative” in this area, especially with my [...]

The bad news is that according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, paid maternity leave is still not standard, even at the best US companies: Nearly one-quarter (24 percent) of the best employers for working mothers provide four or fewer weeks of paid maternity leave, and half (52 percent) provide six weeks or less.
The good [...]

With both my last pregnancy and this one, I had an anti-D injection. If you are wondering what this is and whether you will need one as well, here’s some info on the subject.
Anti-D is not harmful to you or your baby in any way. To the contrary, it can prevent complications and even save [...]