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Antenatal blood tests
You will be offered a variety of blood tests during your pregnancy. By testing your blood, a great deal can be deduced about the likely health of yourself and your baby. Whenever possible the taking of blood tests is timed so that you don’t need lots of needles on separate occasions! Blood group Usually at…
Posted in Antenatal Care, Pregnancy Health, Pregnancy Tests
Tagged anaemia, antibodies, Blood disorders, CVS, Cystic fibrosis, deafness, diabetes, Down’s syndrome, Genetic disorders, German measles, hepatitis B, HIV, Miscarriage, Rh disease, Rhesus factor, rubella, Sickle-cell disease, Thalassaemia, Toxoplasmosis, Ultrasound, Vaccination
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Newborn Baby Checks – AGPAR
One of your main concerns when your baby’s born will almost certainly be is he or she OK? As soon as he’s born, your midwife will carry out some basic checks: Assessing his colour His breathing His heart rate His movements His crying This test is called the APGAR Test Sign Score 0 1 2…
Posted in Baby Health, Labour and Birth, Newborn baby, Online antenatal classes
Tagged agpar, antenatal class, Apgar score, babyworld online antenatal class, blood test, CHT, class 9, congenital hypothyroidism, Cystic fibrosis, hearing test, heel prick test, mcadd, Medium Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency, newborn, Newborn screening, Phenylketonuria, PKU
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The Guthrie Test
When you baby is about a week old your midwife will carry out a few other tests, the one that is most commonly spoken about is The Guthrie Test. These tests are carried out to test for rare genetic conditions. The Guthrie test This is a blood test that is done routinely towards the end of your…
Posted in Baby, Baby Health, Newborn baby
Tagged congenital hypothyroidism, Cystic fibrosis, Genetic disorders, Guthrie test, Newborn screening, PGD
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Cystic fibrosis : special children
Mother of three Clare Thomas, whose son Jordan suffers from cystic fibrosis, says that special children are sent to special parents. How we found out Jordan was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF) at five-and-a-half weeks, after failing to thrive. He had to have three sweat tests (which are used to diagnose CF as a CF person has much…
A guide to special needs
Almost all babies are born healthy and grow and develop normally. In a tiny percentage of cases, though, babies are born with problems that affect their health and development, and which mean that they need to have some kind of special care, often throughout their lives. Anencephaly Cerebral palsy Cleft lip and palate Club foot or talipes Congenital…
Antenatal screening service offers private testing
Leeds Antenatal Screening Service (LASS), supported by Leeds University, provides antenatal screening for local NHS units but also offers private testing to women throughout the UK and abroad. LASS can test for the following disorders: Down’s syndrome, Edwards’ syndrome, neural tube defects, abdominal wall defects and cystic fibrosis. Testing for Down’s syndrome, using ultrasound and…
New test can diagnose genetic problems at 7 weeks
A new blood test for pregnant women to detect genetic disorders in their children has raised new fears over ‘designer babies’. The simple test can diagnose conditions such as Down’s syndrome and cystic fibrosis. And it can give the gender of an unborn child at seven weeks – five weeks before the current time. Campaigners fear…
Posted in Pregnancy, Pregnancy Health
Tagged Abortion, consultant, Cystic fibrosis, Down syndrome, Down’s syndrome, Fertility, Genetic disorders, Haemophilia, invasive procedure, Jane Fisher, Josephine Quintavalle, Lyn Chitty, Miscarriage, Pregnancy test, Prenatal diagnosis, senior lecturer, Tessa Homfray, Western Europe
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More Health Screenings For Pregnant Women & Newborns
Cystic Fibrosis and Downs Syndrome screening tests are to be extended to all pregnant women and newborns, the Government has announced. The change highlights an attempt to modernise neonatal and antenatal screening in England and was announced by Public Health Minister, Yvette Cooper. Currently, only 20 per cent of babies have access to screening, but…
Pregnancy weight gain increases cancer risk
10 April 2002 Gaining more than 50lb during pregnancy and not managing to lose it after giving birth could put women at greater risk of developing breast cancer later in life, researchers claim. A study carried out by experts from the Lombardi Cancer Centre looked at over 27,000 breast cancer patients in Finland. They found…
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Tagged Acupuncture, allergy, artificial chemicals, birth defects, Breast cancer, Breastfeeding, burns, Cancer, Cancer Research UK, chef, Childhood, Cystic fibrosis, epilepsy, Family, Fertility, Finland, food allergy, foster care services, Jamie Oliver, Jane Wardle, Leena Hilakivi-Clarke, Liz Hurley, Lombardi Cancer Centre, migraines, morning sickness, obesity, Pregnancy, Pregnancy over age 50, protection internet filter, Scotland, Sleep deprivation, Teenage pregnancy
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Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis
In 1978, the world saw the birth of the first IVF baby amid conflicting views surrounding the ethics of such treatment. Twenty-seven years later, assisted conception has made enormous progress but the same ethical questions continue, especially surrounding the area of pre-implantationgenetic diagnosis (PGD). What is PGD? Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis or PGD is a complex test which was developed…
