How to prepare a child for your birth and hospital stay
Becoming a big brother or sister is quite the event for a child, and most parents prepare their older children for the arrival of a sibling over the course of...
Scandinavian study: the pill can decrease period pain
Are you suffering from painful periods, also known as dysmenorrhoea? The birth control pill may help you, according to a newly published study, which collected information about painful periods and...
WHO study reveals unsafe abortions are on the rise
What are abortion rates like globally, and how about the trends? According to joint research by the World Health Organization and the Guttmacher Institute, things are changing. Abortion rates had...
Pregnancy diet: how much fat should you consume?
Nearly every woman knows that the old saying, "eating for two", is just a saying and not excellent dietary advice for pregnant women. Nearly every woman knows that pregnancy cravings...
Preparing your child for a first sleep-over
Having that first sleep-over is one of those great milestones that tell a kid that they are really growing up. But, depending on the age of the child, having that...
What is a prenatal music belt?
Pregnancy is big business, and new products keep appearing on the market all the time. If you can think about it, it probably exists! Have you heard about a prenatal...
Medical ways to induce labor
Labor induction is very common in hospitals, as is Augmenting a labor that has already started. But there are more options than just Pitocin, the artificial version of the hormone...
"I didn't know I was pregnant": is that possible?
There is a whole TV show on this topic and apparently there are enough women who didn't know they were pregnant to fill the show week after week. Skeptics secretly...
What are chemical pregnancy symptoms?
The term "chemical pregnancy" may sound nasty, and confusing. What it actually refers to is the very earliest form of miscarriage - a miscarriage that occurs right around the time...
Causes of erectile dysfunction
Erectile dysfunction refers to a man's inability to have an erection, something that can lead to great difficulty when a man would like to get his partner pregnant. There are...