The health condition of an expectant mother should greatly improve in the 12th week of pregnancy. If up to this week you suffered from early toxicosis, nausea and vomiting, now you’ll get better.…
For many adults, not dealing with newborns, the word colic is associated with accute pain that accompanies kidney or gallbladder diseases, but for parents of newborns this word is associated with…
Birch sap, birch juice or birch water is certainly a unique product. People collect birch sap in spring. Birch juice is especially tasty and useful at this time when all people — and most of all…
In normal child-bearing the placenta is usually near the top of your uterus or closer to the back wall. Such a location on the top and back walls protects it from accidental injury.…
The diet of pregnant women (as well as of women planning pregnancy) should only consist of natural foods, fruits and vegetables. Avoid eating foods with E-additives. Some of these additives are…
One of the benefits of breastfeeding is the sterility of mom’s milk. However, even in this valuable product there may be one of the most dangerous microorganisms — Staphylococcus. In reality Staphylococcus is everywhere: in the…
If a woman’s fertilized egg has attached in the ovary, abdominal cavity, fallopian tubes or elsewhere, but not in the uterus where it actually should develop, such a pregnancy is abnormal and is called ectopic.…
Childbearing is quite a serious test for a mother’s body. She experiences both internal and external changes during 9 months. The constantly increasing weight, increasing chest and stomach…
There are no rigid rules on the number of ultrasounds during pregnancy. Additional scanning must be done if there is a suspicion that a fetus has some abnormalities. Ultrasonography is recognized as the safest and most…