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If you are pregnant or know of someone who is, and you like the idea of being in a reality TV show, have I got news for you. Actually, you can also be trying to get pregnant. Head [...]
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Marijke: Nurse Turned Writer has made it through the first round of voting for Best Canadian Health Blog and is now in the second and final round. It’s up against four other fine blogs but, let’s face it, I’d love to come out number one!
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Whether you were told that you can’t have chidren because you’re physically disabled or you just assumed it, that may not be so.
Of course, if your disability is something that affects your fertility or your ability to carry a child, then this is different, but if your disability is due to something like a trauma [...]
Apparently Ashlee Simpson and her husband Pete Wentz bonded over Jungle Book. So much so that they named their son Bronx Mowgli Wentz. Pete is said to have commented that it’s a "cool name." Wow.
Spiderman Tobey Maguire and his wife Jennifer Meyer are expecting little one number two. This baby will join big sister, [...]
If you had an unplanned pregnancy, particularly if you are/were a teen, you have a higher chance of having more unplanned pregnancies, say researchers.
In a study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, researchers studied 542 women who had become pregnant unexpectedly. They found that those who had one unplanned pregnancy had twice [...]
When a woman goes into premature labor, doctors usually try to stop the labor from progressing to give the baby enough time to finish developing. Premature births have a lot of risks, not the least being immature lungs and low birth weight. Every day a baby can be kept in the uterus, the better the [...]
One of the many questions you’ll get asked when you’re pregnant, unless everyone knows you’re having a girl or unless you’re of a faith that requires it, is if you’ll get your son circumcised. There are three sacred pregnancy questions that are guaranteed to raise holy heck among dissenters and circumcision is one of them. [...]
Hi folks - some of you are regular readers and some of you are new here so you may know know about my other work. I do write some other blogs, including two others for b5media. But, another one of my blogs, called Marijke: Nurse Turned Writer, is one that I write just for health [...]
Up to now, the only control women had over epidurals while in labor was to say "yes" or "no" to "do you want an epidural?" This is changing in some places though.
In the United Kingdom, one hospital began a patient-controlled epidural system. The epidural is inserted as usual, but the woman has the ability [...]
It may be hard to believe, but apparently almost one in five women who get the news that the baby they’re carrying has Down’s syndrome don’t believe it. I know many people would ask "why have the genetic testing if you’re not going to do anything about it if the tests show an abnormality," but [...]
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