Family Health Articles

Once you find out that your efforts to get pregnant paid off and you are expecting a baby, making a prenatal appointment is likely to be among the first things...

If you are five weeks pregnant, the chances are that you are a week from the time you took a pregnancy test, and were overjoyed by those two lines. But...

The number of women who conceive using invitro fertilization, or IVF, have been consistently rising for many years, ever since the first test tube baby was born three decades ago...

Fluid retention, and swollen ankles in particular, are symptoms that many pregnant women encounter in pregnancy. These symptoms are painless, but could cause slight discomfort. Not every pregnant woman's ankles...

Patience is a virtue, or so they say. But waiting for the time that you are able to take a pregnancy test is extremely trying when you can't wait to...

The question of how to cure pregnancy sickness, also known as morning sickness and pregnancy nausea, is a common one in the first trimester. It is completely unnecessary to mention...

Many couples long to become parents, but the female partner is unable to carry a pregnancy to term. Surrogacy enables couples who cannot conceive a way to create a child...

Gaining weight is an obvious consequence of pregnancy to most people. As a fetus grows, its mother will too. Weight gain in pregnancy has become a point of obsession for...

Ultrasounds have become such a commonly used diagnostic tool today that there are very few women who do not have an ultrasound at least once while they are expecting a...

The first few weeks of pregnancy are perhaps more of a challenge because nobody can see that you are pregnant yet. You might feel terrible, but nobody will offer to...