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Why pregnancy exercise is good for your baby
By Sarah Lawson on 06/07/2009 01:50:34
If you take the right precautions, regular exercise can be beneficial in pregnancy for you and for your baby
can benefit your unborn baby, tooJust as diet and nutrition directly affect your baby, exercise is another influence on your body which links straight to the growing fetus.A natural high Exercising produces a biochemical compound in our bodies called
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What is lanugo?
By Louise Rogers on 01/10/2007 01:56:21
It’s one of those words that gets bandied about in all the pregnancy books, but what is it? And should you be concerned about it?
Lanugo is the Latin word for down, like the fine small hairs on plants. In baby terms, it’s the first hair he will grow, usually at 4-5 months’ gestation. What does lanugo look like and do all babies get it?It’s soft, downy and generally unpigmented
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Baby girls cope better with pregnancy stress in the womb
By Kimberley Smith on 29/04/2010 14:27:18
Unborn baby boys and girls have different ways of dealing with stress, a new survey reveals
Vicki Clifton, from the University of Adelaide.Boys deal with stress by ignoring it and growing as big as possible while girls slow their growth, making themselves a little bit smaller and more resilient to further stresses in the pregnancy.Boys deal
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Celebrities talk pregnancy cravings
By Matt Fricker on 27/07/2010 15:22:43
Mums-to-be Christina Applegate and Ali Larter talk pregnancy cravings and love of heels
. Food. Food’s a craving!” Christina told ETonilne. Christina added that she won’t give up wearing high heels while pregnant, “I have to always wear heels, because as we grow out width ways, we need to grow up this way. They offset the impending growth
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Low calorie diets in early pregnancy can affect your baby’s brain
By Susie Boone on 19/01/2011 11:18:56
Pregnant women warned slimming can damage their baby’s intelligence
and older mums. This is thought to be due to the fact that teenage mums are still growing and older mums are less efficient at supplying nutrients to their growing babies.Therefore women in these two groups should be extra careful to make sure their daily
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Stylish maternity exercise clothing for active mums-to-be
By Kyrsty Hazell on 17/01/2011 18:00:00
We've rounded up the most stylish and practical pregnancy exercise gear for you to dress your baby bump in while you stay active
Exercise your baby bump in styleExercise in pregnancy is important for many reasons. And despite your growing bump making you feel restless and tired at times (well, you are growing a baby!) going for a brisk walk or swimming a few lengths
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“Infertile” TV presenter pregnant!
By Kimberley Smith on 10/11/2010 11:58:51
Sky Sports presenter Sophie Blake has defied doctors who told her she would be unable to have more children
by a condition called Asherman’s syndrome.The condition began after complications at the birth of her first child, daughter Maya. Asherman’s causes scar tissue to grow in the womb, making conception unlikely or impossible. Surgery is possible but
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Lab-grown sperm could spell hope for infertile men
By Kimberley Smith on 24/03/2011 12:59:59
Men suffering from infertility could one day father biological children using sperm grown in a test tube
Test-tube sperm may soon offer the chance for infertile men to father their own biological children. Scientists have discovered a way of growing sperm from testicular cells that can fertilise an egg.Testicular tissue was taken from mice and grown
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A day in the life of your bump
By Jane Thynne on 10/08/2011 08:57:16
From listening in to your fave TV show to enjoying the same lunch, here's what your unborn baby's up to inside you from the moment you wake up...
During the first trimester, your baby’s too busy growing to pay attention to the outside world.
By 9 weeks his face is forming. He has a mouth and tongue, and his eyes even have some colour.
He’s now about 22mm – the size of a grape – yet
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Fibroids could cause miscarriage
By Kimberley Smith on 28/09/2011 12:47:29
Women with womb fibroids found to have a higher risk of miscarriage
Otherwise harmless fibroids that grow in or around the womb, distorting its shape, could be the reason some women suffer recurrent miscarriage.A 20-year study has discovered a significant improvement in pregnancy outcomes when women diagnosed
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