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Are Cleaning Products Safe to Use During Pregnancy?
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the Natural Pregnancy RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!If you are pregnant, you may be concerned about cleaning products. There is good reason for worry since cleaning products we use every day contain a wide variety of chemicals with unknown side effects.
A recent study in [...]
Morning Sickness Remedies
Does the smell of coffee or eggs make you run to the bathroom? What about a nice Stilton? Does the act of getting out of bed make you sicker than you have ever felt? If you are pregnant and sights, smells and tastes that you used to enjoy send you face first [...]
Smoking During Pregnancy - Let Your Child Have the Choice
By: Jared Mitchell
The word ‘Mother’ is synonymous with care, love and all good things on the earth. Mothers who smoke, however, can be inadvertently killing and maiming their children – born and unborn. Shocked? It’s true. Mothers who smoke are potentially gifting their children with lung cancer and many other similarly devastating diseases through second [...]
Video: Alcohol, Smoking & Pregnancy
This is a March of Dimes public service announcement ad regarding the dangers of smoking and drinking during pregnancy. Please just do not do it. Drinking during pregnancy causes physical and mental defects. Everything you eat or drink passes to the baby through your placenta. Alcohol can be exceptionally toxic to a [...]
Take The Pregnancy Health Quiz
The first few weeks of a pregnancy are essential to a growing baby. During this time, the brain and other organs begin rapidly forming. Poor lifestyle decisions such as obesity, smoking, drinking alcohol, and drug use are not only bad for your own health; they can be extremely harmful to a growing baby. Certain chronic [...]
Pregnancy Massage
Pregnancy is one of the most special times in a woman’s life. The feeling of carrying another living being in your womb is a very unique experience. It is also a time of physical and emotional transformation for the woman. The hormones released by the pituitary gland, placenta and ovaries lead to a variety of [...]
Dealing With The Third Trimester
Author: Elysiana Canlas
After weeks of counting, it finally comes to that crucial third trimester of your pregnancy. The primary concern of pregnant women during this period is premature birth.
Medical experts said that beginning 28 weeks, a fetus can survive outside the mother’s womb provided the lungs are developed enough. Birth at less than 37 [...]
Herbs for Pregnancy
by Dr. Parveen Gupta
It is a well known fact that women must avoid drugs during their pregnancy. There are many medicines that women take which can affect the birth characteristics of the new born baby. These drugs can be common nausea drugs, antihistamines, skin medicines, and even laxatives. These drugs can cause remarkable defects [...]
Paxil Directly Linked to Birth Defects
by Nick Johnson
Recent studies have shown that the use of Paxil during pregnancy increases the chances of birth defects. In December 2005, the Food and Drug Administration moved Paxil from a class C drug to a class D drug. A class C drug is one that has been proven to harm animals; and a class [...]
More Pregnancy Safety Issues
According to the article: Household chemicals causing “silent pandemic” found at www.canada.com:
In nine months, the fetal brain grows into ”a complex organ consisting of billions of precisely located, highly interconnected and specialized cells,” the report says.
The growth occurs within ”a tightly controlled time frame, in which each developmental stage has to be reached on schedule [...]
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