Before the crying, diaper changes and sleepless nights set in, a growing number of moms-to-be are spending their pregnancies in the lap of luxury. From belly "facials" to in-home massage therapy and private yoga sessions, women are indulging like it might be their last chance.
The number of pregnant women with pre-existing diabetes has more than doubled in seven years, a California study found, a troubling trend that means health risks for both mothers and newborns.
Before the crying, diaper changes and sleepless nights set in, a growing number of moms-to-be are spending their pregnancies in the lap of luxury. From belly "facials" to in-home massage therapy and private yoga sessions, women are indulging like it might be their last chance.
The number of pregnant women with pre-existing diabetes has more than doubled in seven years, a California study found, a troubling trend that means health risks for both mothers and newborns.
It wasn't Tibet's subzero temperatures that nurse practitioner Arlene Samen found so chilling on a 1997 medical trip, but the haunting stories she was told about mothers and newborns on the brink of death after childbirth.
A thriving career. And a sure-to-be-adorable baby (due any minute). It would be easy to envy Halle Berry -- if she weren't so nice. The Academy Award opens up about the blessed event.
Mark Hacking is accused of killing his pregnant wife, Lori, in Salt Lake City. Scott Peterson is accused of killing his pregnant wife, Laci, in Modesto, California. Meanwhile, as their cases play out before a national audience, countless other husbands and boyfriends stand accused of the same crime in courtrooms across the country.
Mom-to-be Christina Aguilera is making like Demi Moore and Britney Spears – displaying her bare belly in a revealing cover photo for the January issue of Marie Claire magazine.
Here you will find various articles related to pregnancy, childbirth, parenthood and child safety. • Doulas deliver help for birthing moms • Lower your miscarriage risk with new tests, treatments • 5 mistakes parents make with newborns -- and how to avoid them • 8 things no one tells you about being a mom • Your baby: 10 milestones for the first 2 years • Got a million worries about your baby? Here's calming advice • Test your baby-safety savvy • Car seat installation: Make sure your baby's safe
When Barbara Stratton of Baltimore, Maryland, looks back at the birth of her son, Charlie, now 7, she's angry -- angry she had a surgery she believes she didn't need.
Life was proceeding as planned for Ravinder Dhallan, or so it seemed. Having earned doctorates in medicine and biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, he had just started a radiation oncology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. On the home front Dhallan and his wife, Hejung Christine Chang, had a daughter, and they were eager to see their family grow.
U.S. women are dying from childbirth at the highest rate in decades, new government figures show. Though the risk of death is very small, experts believe increasing maternal obesity and a jump in Caesarean sections are partly to blame.
When Kori Morrison had her first miscarriage, she and her husband, Tom, were upset but still hopeful. After all, she knew that 15 to 50 percent of all pregnancies end in miscarriage, and most of these women who've miscarried go on to have healthy babies. But in the next eight years, Morrison had four more miscarriages. Sadness and self-blame set in. "I wondered if I was eating the wrong things, if I was overstressed, or, worst of all, if my body just wasn't cut out for pregnancy," she says.
The lights were dimmed, soft music was playing and a scented candle burned on the counter. In the center of it all was Julie Trotter -- moaning through hard labor contractions.
In the fall of 2003, Dennis and Beth Albiani had their future perfectly planned. They'd purchased 18 acres of rolling hills at the foot of California's Sierra Nevada near Sacramento, where they were preparing to build their 3,400-square-foot dream house.
Maybe I'm the wrong ex-patient to be telling you this: Experimental surgery erased Stage III colon cancer from my shell-shocked body six years ago. But even I've got to admit that all is not well in America's operating rooms: At least 12,000 Americans die each year from unnecessary surgery, according to a Journal of the American Medical Association report. And tens of thousands more suffer complications.
Cece Clark's fibroids had gotten so bad that she often had to lie down in the middle of the day. When she got up, it was usually for another trip to the bathroom. "My periods were astoundingly heavy, and pressure on my bladder made me feel like I had to go all the time," she recalls. But after she tried an uncommon ultrasound treatment, everything changed. "The pressure lessened right away," she says. "It was such a physical and emotional relief."
A leading group of women's doctors called Wednesday for closer consultations with pregnant women using anti-depressants, particularly singling out one of the medicines -- paroxetine or Paxil -- as a risk for birth defects.
Japan's Princess Kiko has given birth to a son, likely postponing a long-running debate over whether Japanese law should be changed to allow women to succeed to the throne, the imperial palace announced Wednesday.
It's the day before Jennifer Witt is scheduled to start treatment for in vitro fertilization, and she's in a panic. It's not only the prospect of the medical procedure that's worrying her, or even ...
Paxil, a blockbuster antidepressant from GlaxoSmithKline, increases the risk of babies' heart defects in pregnant mothers, the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday.
Amniocentesis, a common prenatal test that involves sticking a needle into the mother's womb, is dreaded by many because of its risk to the fetus, but a diagnostic company hopes to eliminate that risk by developing a urine test that would detect Down syndrome in fetuses.
Having already given birth to two girls, Soledad O'Brien was ready for another addition to her family last winter. Yet she and her husband, Brad, were in for a surprise when, several months into her most recent pregnancy, her doctor told her she had not one, but two babies, on the way.
Earlier this month, Illinois judge Jeffrey Lawrence refused to dismiss a wrongful death suit against a fertility clinic in Chicago. The plaintiffs are a couple, Alison Miller and Todd Parrish. They allege that the defendant, the Center for Human Reproduction in Chicago, discarded their nine embryos and thereby ended the embryos' lives.
Last month, Susan Buchweitz recovered a million dollars in a settlement with a fertility clinic. Doctors at the clinic had mistakenly given her an embryo intended for another family.
Many British businesses are failing to manage pregnancy effectively because of a lack of awareness of their legal obligations, according to ongoing research by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC).
Regular exercise goes a long way towards weight maintenance, heart health, and even stress management. But pregnant women reap those benefits and more.
(FindLaw) -- Last week, Utah prosecutors charged a woman with murder for failing to undergo a Caesarean section ("C-section") delivery, a failure that allegedly resulted in the death of one of her unborn twins. Prosecutors have suggested that the reason the woman, Melissa Ann Rowland, refused the procedure was her desire to avoid an abdominal scar.
There isn't a manufacturing manager alive who doesn't wake occasionally at 4 A.M. and wonder what else could be done to cut unnecessary links or trim costs in the company's supply chain. Not becomi...
Picture Cindy Crawford in a tent dress. Not a pretty picture? Lucky for Crawford, who gave birth last summer, she was able to spend the only months she has ever had a belly decked out in $200 flare...
Run, baby, run: As you already know, the days when pregnant women hid their bellies beneath tentlike shifts are gone. Today's moms-to-be are inline skating and running marathons, and they want the ...
One of the biggest fears people have about the Internet is that it will turn out to be the menacing embodiment of Big Brother. While many Websites go to great lengths to make sure customers don't f...
DEAR ANNIE: When is it appropriate to reveal to a prospective employer that I am three months pregnant? This will be my second child, so I have highly reliable day-care arrangements in place, and a...
Finding out she was pregnant would have been a joyous moment for Roberta Riley, 37, three years ago if it hadn't happened while she was completing two years of chemotherapy for leukemia. Instead, t...
Deep in the Louisiana bayou, a team of leathery pipeline workers--of all people--celebrate the rigors of healthy living. A few years ago the 14 men who operate a 22-acre natural gas platform in the...
On the sandy volleyball court behind a Monona, Wis. neighborhood bar, a fragile-looking woman wearing an oversize lavender T-shirt leaps to slam the ball over the net, her short-cropped blonde hair...
LIKE ALL MY friends, I thought that when we started trying to have a baby it would just happen.'' So says Nancy Ameen today, four years after she and her husband, Toby Hoden, decided it was time to...
NOT A SMIDGEN of scandal accompanied Shawn Harland Erickson when he arrived into the world early on New Year's Day, the first baby of 1994 in Brockton, Massachusetts. Shawn's mother, 19-year-old Ta...
More companies are offering incentives, if not outright bribes, to encourage moms-to-be to get prenatal care and help cut the number of premature and low- birthweight babies. Such births can result...
IF THE WELL-BEING of its children is the proper measure of the health of a civilization, the United States is in grave danger. Of the 65 million Americans under 18, fully 20% live in poverty, 22% l...
IF GIRLS are tougher and more resilient than boys, as many developmental experts insist, why do they so often seem to plunge deeper into unhappiness when they hit their teens? Adolescence -- no pic...
TOKOS MEDICAL The longer a baby stays in the womb, the better its chances of coming out healthy. Some 400,000 babies a year (10%) are born prematurely in the U.S., making preterm delivery a leading...
You may have to keep reminding yourself of this truth, especially while it's happening to you, but it is almost invariably a good and joyful thing for women of the managerial cadre to bring new liv...
With the country now poised for hearings on a Supreme Court nominee, and for boundless recrimination over the law of abortion, we propose to indulge in a little fantasy previously not allowed out o...
It's no secret that the U.S. rates for infant mortality are among the highest in the Western world. In 1987 ten U.S. infants died for every 1,000 born alive; 17 developed countries have lower rates...
It wasn't supposed to happen. Two years ago, when Bill and Eileen Lund of Fremont, Calif. began treatment for infertility, the doctor assured them that Eileen would not be taking any fertility drug...
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