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Can Fetal Heart Rate Predict Gender?

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I first heard this “myth” from my midwife while expecting one of my children. The heart rate was 155 beats per minute and she accurately predicted I was having a female child.
Being the curious type, I asked [...]

Depression Late in Pregnancy an Indicator of Postnatal Depression

Scientists in Australia have found that pregnant women who become depressed in the later stages of their pregnancy are more prone to postnatal depression. The results of the study were published online on April 18, 2008 in the open-access peer review journal, BMC Psychiatry.

The researchers, Dr. Bronwyn Leigh of Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, Austin Health [...]

Accidental Deaths in Babies Declining

While the rate of accidental deaths in children in the U.S. have been declining steadily over the years, there is still room for improvement. Safe Kids USA has recently published the findings on their study. Some of the revelations show that childhood injury deaths have declined from a high of 15.4 per 100,000 [...]

Beco Baby Carrier Recalls “Beco Butterfly” Infant Carriers

Beco Baby Carrier Recalls “Beco Butterfly” Infant Carriers
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
Name of Product: Beco Baby Butterfly Carriers
Units: About 2,000
Manufacturer: Beco Baby Carrier Inc., [...]

Chocolate and Pregnancy: Some Good News

During my first pregnancy I generally abstained from chocolate because I had heard about the possible dangers of caffeine consumption while pregnant. After all, chocolate has a bit of caffeine, doesn’t it? I wanted to be as careful as possible.
When my second pregnancy came along I was a little more relaxed about the whole [...]

?Baby Mama” Star is a Mom to Be

Amy Poehler has announced that she will soon become a real-life mama. Poehler, 36, star of the new movie ?Baby Mama,? and husband Will Arnett are expecting their first child, People magazine has reported. The couple?s baby is due in the fall.
Poehler?s new comedy movie, “Baby Mama,” which co-stars gal-pal and former “Saturday Night Live” [...]

Pre-existing diabetes in pregnant women is up

The number of pregnant women with pre-existing diabetes has significantly increased in the last seven years especially among teenagers. No, I am not referring to gestational or pregnancy diabetes. In this case, it`s the type 2 diabetes which is related to obesity that is most commonly observed.
Here are some statistics to think about:
? 1999 - [...]

Keeping Baby Safe During a Disaster

Last night, several tornadoes touched down in our state and caused great amounts of damage. Tornadoes are somewhat rare where we live now, but we do get our share of hurricanes.
All of this made me wonder about my disaster plan–something the locals take quite seriously here. I confess I really don’t have one, which [...]

Secondary Infertility

Since I am most likely new to the majority of you reading this blog, please allow me a paragraph to introduce myself. I write under the pseudonym SciFi Dad, but you can call me SFD for short. I am a Canadian father to a three year old girl as well as a gender-to-be-determined [...]

Organic Baby Clothes

You don’t need me to tell you that babies need a lot of clothes. The average baby grows out of 4 or 5 complete wardrobe changes in their first year. I don’t have a linen cupboard, it’s full of boxes of my son’s baby clothes saved for potential baby number two.
Baby clothes and bedding are [...]

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