If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Just when I thought I’d been through enough in this pregnancy, last night my belly button started hurting so much it made me cry. I know all these aches are nothing compared to labor, but, the way I see [...]
Tags: belly button pain, hernia, Pregnancy, symptoms
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This week, I took my 30 minutes recommended cardio per day and saved it all up for one day! Trust me, ladies, this is not a good idea!
My husband, my niece, her friend and I decided to walk from 10th Street in New York City’s East Village all the way up Broadway and 52nd Street. [...]
Tags: pain, Pregnancy, right side, Round ligament pain, second trimester, sharp abdomen pain, symptoms, third trimester
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Is postpartum depression a common thing?
One in five American women actually suffers from postpartum depressive symptoms (PDS). This is according to a survey recently published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The survey data was collected from 2004 to 2005 in 17 states. The highest incidence of PD was found in New Mexico (20.4%) and [...]
Tags: postpartum depression, risk factors, survey, symptoms
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A recent study, as reviewed by the American Heart association, shows that women tend to ignore or dismiss symptoms of cardiac events, and thus delay seeking medical help.
The researchers from the Yale School of Medicine interviewed 30 women who suffered from a heart attack about the events before hospitalization. The interviews revealed that many of [...]
Tags: delay medical help, heart attack, symptoms, warning signs, women
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Some doctors will try to estimate when labor will occur. This can be based on the dilation, the due date or it may just be a guess based on previous pregnancies. But, if you press them, they will usually acknowledge that labor just can’t be medically predicted with any accuracy. But, there are a lot [...]
Tags: , doula, labor, symptoms
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