Is this the end of my independence? Fatherhood doesn’t have to spell the end of fun. True, you may not get much sleep or time for yourself during the first few months until your baby starts sleeping through the night. But when the baby sleeps more, you and your partner will have more time for things [...]
When You’re Expecting Pregnant women experience a variety of emotions and life changes. But most first-time dads have their own feelings and concerns to deal with, too. If you feel shocked, panicked, overwhelmed, scared, or like you’re just not ready, you’re not alone. Like any big change, this will require a major adjustment. And if the [...]
Pregnant women with genital herpes should be careful about passing the virus on to the baby, but not overly worried about it. A mother can infect her baby during delivery, often fatally. But if a woman had genital herpes before getting pregnant, or if she is first infected early in pregnancy, the chance that her [...]
Are you a new mom who wants to get in shape after having a baby? Each month we put your questions about fitness to top exercise and motivational experts – and this month, Brooklyn finance professional and new mom Myra Bartalos, 38, sought tips on getting back into the swing of workouts from trainer Michele Thorington, [...]
Is This Labor? I was 37 weeks’ pregnant when my beautiful daughter arrived. There had been some minor complications the week before her birth (I was leaking small amounts of amniotic fluid), and my doctor thought we might have to induce labor. But after a nonstress test and an ultrasound, he decided it was best [...]
Waiting For Baby I was a wreck as my due date came and went with no sign of labor. I was convinced that I’d never have this baby and would be the size of a Thanksgiving Day parade float forever. My biggest fear was confirmed by my obstetrician — the baby hadn’t even started to [...]
When A Child Needs Help When a child is choking, it means that an object — usually food or a toy — is lodged in the trachea trachea (the airway) and is keeping air from flowing normally into or out of the lungs. The trachea is usually protected by a small flap of cartilage called [...]
Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Pediatrics (OHSU, Portland, Oregon) is seeking roughly 50-100 volunteer families to participate in a vitamin D study. The goal of the study is to find out whether giving Vitamin D to the pregnant mother, who already has had at least one previous child with autism, can prevent the recurrence [...]
According to the American Pregnancy Association, six million women a year deal with infertility. Now, a Tel Aviv University study is giving new hope to women who want to conceive – in the form of a pill they can find on their drugstore shelves right now. Prof. Adrian Shulman of Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty [...]
Maternal Blood Screening/Triple Screen/ Quadruple Screen Why Is This Test Performed? Doctors use this to test to screen for Down syndrome and neural tube defects. Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) is a protein produced by the fetus, and it appears in varying amounts in the mother’s blood and the amniotic fluid at different times during pregnancy. A certain [...]
