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Mother's Health: Doctors ignore mental wellbeing of new mums

Obstetricians tend to overlook one vital aspect of mother and baby wellbeing – the mental health of the woman after the birth. more »

Pregnancy: Maybe it’s OK to drink coffee after all

Women have for years been warned off coffee – or any drink containing caffeine – while they are pregnant. more »

Smart Babies: They’re made by mums who eat plenty of fish, study claims

A diet that includes plenty of fish isn’t just good for ‘ze little grey cells’, as smart detective Hercule Poirot often observed, it’s also good for the brain of your unborn child. more »

Labour: Acupuncture reduces the ‘active phase’, new study finds

Acupuncture can speed labour, a new study of pregnant women has revealed. It dramatically reduced the active phase of labour, although the women did not deliver the baby any sooner. more »

Exercise: You can have too much of a good thing, as women athletes could tell us

Exercise is good for us – up to a point. The vast majority of women who exercise excessively – usually because they’re athletes or sportswomen – suffer menstrual dysfunction and bone problems, a new... more »

Hysterectomy: It’s a radical procedure that most women don’t need to have

If you suffer from heavy menstrual bleeding – and it’s something that affects one in four women sometime in their life – your doctor will probably recommend a hysterectomy. more »

Touching the life force

At this writing, the one of our two children I gave birth to has just turned 17, which caused a renewed reflection about how she chose to come into the world. Those memories were ignited again by our... more »

C-section aftershocks

In late September of this year, researchers in the US dropped a bombshell onto the cosy world of obstetrics. After analyzing the records of nearly six million births, they advised that mothers should... more »

Caesarean: It triples the death rate in newborns

Babies born by Caesarean section are three times more likely to die soon afterwards than those born naturally, a new study has discovered. more »

Antidepressant: Drug may cause birth defects

Women who take the antidepressant paroxetine (Paxil in the USA, and Seroxat in the UK) while they are pregnant could be putting their unborn baby at risk. more »

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