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  High Calorie Diet Increases Chances of Having A Boy

  03.10.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Scientists are now claiming that a full breakfast and high fat diet are more likely to result in the conception of a baby boy!
  This gives some weight to old wives tales like ‘bacon for boys’, and Dr Rosenfeld, of the University of Missouri, has gone on to say that a low fat diet and long [...]

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  Zoe Ball Admits Having Difficulty Conceiving

  03.09.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  In a recent frank admission Zoe Ball has revealed that conceiving her second child, Nelly, proved more difficult than she would have imagined.
  Zoe and DJ hubby Norman Cook spent five years trying to have a brother or sister for their first child Woody. It was only after six weeks abstinence from drink that they finally [...]

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  Fall in Number of Teen Pregnancies!

  02.24.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  New figures from the Office of National Statistics have revealed that teen pregnancies in England and Wales have fallen by 4%, and of these women 49% had abortions compared to 50% in 2007.
  The government made a pledge back in 1998 to bring teenage pregnancy rates down by half by 2010, but they are not expected [...]

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  Do We Really Know What Morning Sickness Is?

  02.23.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Morning sickness affects around 50% of pregnant women but do we really know what it is or the cause?
  One thing I know for certain is that the term ‘morning sickness’ is bandied about far too lightly. Anyone who has suffered from it will comfirm that it can happen at any time of the day or [...]

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  Drinking Milk During Pregnancy Could Reduce Risk of MS For Baby

  02.19.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Research has shown that mothers who drink a few glasses of milk PER DAY could reduce the risk of multiple sclerosis for women born compared to those who drink no more than a few glasses PER MONTH.
  MS is a disease of the nervous system and can , in some cases, progress to become disabling. It [...]

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  Pregnancy Testing At School

  02.19.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Local school authorities are in the process of trying to make pregnancy tests available to schoolgirls, some as young as 11, more widely available. However, campaigners are worried that plans to make condoms and pregnancy tests available to this age group could promote indiscriminate sexual behaviour.
  This situation has been spotlighted since it has come to [...]

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  The Pregnant Man Pregnant For The Third Time

  02.17.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Thomas Beatie, the pregnant man who was first brought to our attention when it came to light that he was pregnant with his first child, is pregnant for third time.
  Thomas is a transgender man and chose to become pregnant when he and his wife found out that she was infertile. He later gave birth to [...]

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  The Fertility Time Bomb

  02.16.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Yesterday I talked about unexpected pregnancy in later life and today I thought I would look at the flip side of this coin by asking the question – Are a womans chances of conceiving less after the age of 30?
  A recent article in The Times newspaper reports that the first study tracking a womans supply [...]

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  Unplanned Pregnancy and the Older Woman!

  02.15.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Some experts are fearing that older women are not taking contraception because they believe that they won’t get
  pregnant after a certain age. However, the truth is that although we do become less fertile as we get older you can still become pregnant and, in some cases, well into the fifties.
  The Family Planning Association has launched [...]

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  Gene Test To Become Available For Those Planning Children

  02.09.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  A new saliva test is to be made available to couples planning to have children to test for the risk of bearing a child with genetic diseases.
  The test will determine if their child is likely to suffer from conditions such as cystic fibrosis, muscular atrophy or sickle cell anaemia. It will be made available for  [...]