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Pregnancy Complications : links
Pregnancy is an exciting time and most women go through pregnancy with only a few pregnancy complications. Some women may have existing medical conditions that could put them at risk or some may experience more serious pregnancy complications. If you are concerned about pregnancy complications or medical conditions you will find information here on how you and your baby…
Calls for fertility ban
30th August 2006 Women with severe weight problems should be denied fertility treatment, experts say. The British Fertility Society say clinically obese women with a BMI over 36 should be refused fertility treatment. They have also recommended that women who are underweight or slightly obese with a BMI of 29 should address their weight problems before commencing IVF. The…
More babies becoming overweight
11th August 2006 Babies and young children are more likely to be overweight than they were in the eighties, according to US scientists. Harvard Medical School researchers studied 120,000 children under the age of six, between 1980 and 2001. They found that overall, the number of children who were overweight rose by two thirds to just over 10…
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Tagged Bariatrics, Body shape, Breastfeeding, Childhood, Childhood obesity, gestational diabetes, Health, Institute of Child Health, Massachusetts, Matthew Gillman, Metabolic disorders, National Childbirth Trust, Nutrition, obesity, Overweight, Paul Sacher, Rosie Dodds, Weight gain
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Diabetes linked to mum’s age
11 August, 2000 BABIES born to older mothers are at increased risk of diabetes, it has been discovered. The risk is highest for the first-born child of an older mother and actually falls for subsequent children, despite the mother becoming older. A total of 1,375 families in Oxfordshire with one of more children with diabetes…
Diabetes
There are two types of diabetes that can affect pregnant women. Insulin-dependent diabetes is a permanent condition which develops early in life and which needs to be treated with insulin. Gestational diabetes develops for the first time during pregnancy and is usually temporary. Insulin-dependent diabetes If you are a diabetic who takes insulin to control…
