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Going home after giving birth
Your stay in hospital might be quite a short one, perhaps only four or five days. Do ask if you want to stay a little longer if you don’t feel confident to go home, or there’s no one there to look after you. Lifting and carrying and even going up and down stairs can be difficult at first…
Posted in Labour and Birth
Tagged Caesarean section, Childbirth, Feature, Home birth, Midwife, obstetrician
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What are birth centres
With many women attracted by the prospect of a less medical birth, we take a look at what birth centres can offer mums-to-be. Birth centres – what they are ‘Birth centres’, ‘midwife-led units’, ‘birthing centres’, ‘maternity homes’, ‘maternity hospitals’, ‘cottage hospitals’ and ‘GP units’. These are the various names that are used to describe the various small…
I asked the midwife if I was going to die..
‘I asked the midwife if I was going to die…’ Having finally become pregnant with twins thanks to IVF treatment, Gabby Logan, ITV’s star soccer presenter tells us how she was looking forward to fulfilling her dream goal of motherhood. But the birth itself turned out to be a nerve-wracking marathon that, at one stage saw Gabby, now happily…
Posted in Labour and Birth
Tagged Acupuncture, anaesthetist, Blood transfusion, butcher, Christmas, Christmas Day, Gabby, hire car, iPod, ITV, ITV Plc, Jenny Smith, Kenny, Lois, Midwife, Nicholas Fisk, obstetrician, oil-burner filling, reflexology, Reuben
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Pregnancy stress ‘almost doubles risk of stillbirth’
Stressed mothers-to-be are at almost double the risk of stillbirth, research shows. A study of almost 20,000 women revealed that those who were stressed, anxious or lacked self-esteem in the last weeks of their pregnancy were more likely to suffer a stillbirth. It is thought that rising levels of hormones in the mother result in…
Posted in Pregnancy
Tagged high blood pressure, Imperial College, Kirsten Wisborg, Miscarriage, obstetrician, Pregnancy, Scientist, spokesman, Stillbirth, Stress
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Water aerobics helps with labour pains
Doing aqua-aerobics during pregnancy can ease the pain of childbirth, research shows. Women who did three classes a week were over twice as likely to decline an epidural, a study found. It is thought the stress-busting effect of exercise helped. Researchers tracked the pregnancies of 71 women. Around half were asked to attend three 50-minute…
Posted in Birth choices, Complementary therapies, Labour and Birth
Tagged Aerobic exercise, Aerobics, Brazil, Caesarean section, Childbirth, Epidural, Gynaecology, Michael Heard, Midwife, obesity, obstetrician, Pregnancy, Royal College of Obstetricians, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Sao Paulo, University of Campinas, Water aerobics
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Child healthcare specialists honoured by Queen
News archive The latest products and where to find them Product news archive Talk about it in our Discuss, Debate and Deliberate discussion forum 14th June 2004 Child healthcare specialists honoured by Queen Dozens of healthcare workers have been honoured in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List including doctors at the forefront of child health. Professor…
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Tagged Benyon, Cancer, chair, David Beynon, Health, Karyn Maltby, National Health Service, obstetrician, Queen, Royal College of Paediatrics, Sophie
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Study into low carb diet in pregnancy
12th April 2004 A group of people whose mothers ate an Atkins-type diet while pregnant 30 years ago are to be part of new research by scientists. A team from Edinburgh and Southampton universities has traced almost 1,000 of the 60s babies, known as the ‘Motherwell babies’, whose mothers were put on a high meat,…
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Tagged Chief Scientist Office, diabetes, Diabetes mellitus, Edinburgh University, Health, Healthy diet, heart disease, Keith Godfrey, Kerr Grieve, Low-carbohydrate diet, Medical Research Council, Nutrition, obstetrician, osteoporosis, Rebecca Reynolds, Southampton University
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News: Study into low carb diet in pregnancy
A group of people whose mothers ate an Atkins-type diet while pregnant 30 years ago are to be part of new research by scientists. A team from Edinburgh and Southampton universities has traced almost 1,000 of the 60s babies, known as the ‘Motherwell babies’, whose mothers were put on a high meat, low carbohydrate…
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Tagged Chief Scientist Office, diabetes, Diabetes mellitus, Edinburgh University, Health, Healthy diet, heart disease, Keith Godfrey, Kerr Grieve, Low-carbohydrate diet, Medical Research Council, Nutrition, obstetrician, osteoporosis, Rebecca Reynolds, Southampton University
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GP’s to be replaced by midwives
A Scottish Government decision to cut GP’s out of maternity services, has been seen as controversial. Women will no longer see their GP during their pregnancy. The old tradition of women visiting their family doctor to have their pregnancy confirmed and to have basic health checks carried out will be scrapped and the job taken…
IVF link to placenta previa
25th May 2006 IVF may increase the risk of a potentially dangerous complication of pregnancy. A Norwegian study has found that the risk of placenta previa rose from about three in 1,000 pregnancies in the general population, to 16 in 1,000 for women who had had IVF. The condition in which the placenta covers part or all of…
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Tagged British Fertility Society, East Midlands, Fertility, Fertility clinic, gynaecologist, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, ICSI, In vitro fertilisation, Mark Hamilton, Northampton, Northamptonshire, Norway, obstetrician, Placenta praevia, placenta previa, Pregnancy, premature birth
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