How to prepare your older child for a new baby
Are you expecting your second child? It is completely natural to worry about how your firstborn will react to a new sibling, or at least wonder. Fortunately, pregnancy lasts around...
Depressed mothers birth low birth weight babies?
Depression is always something that should be treated, and depression in pregnancy is something to pay particular attention to. But one new study claims that depressed mothers are more likely...
Fruit cravings during pregnancy
Have you found yourself craving lots of fruit in pregnancy? Many women are the same! But what do you need to know about fruit cravings? Is it OK to allow...
What are the most comfortable sleeping positions in pregnancy?
Sleep is hardly a problem in the first trimester of pregnancy if you could, you would be sleeping all day long! But as you enter the second trimester, sleep becomes...
Fluid retention in pregnancy
As soon as you got that positive pregnancy test, you knew that there would be plenty of changes on your body over the next nine or so months. But the...
Can you take over the counter pain killers while pregnant?
Taking an over the counter pain killer for a headache, a back ache, or aching muscles is something that most people would not think twice about. Why suffer needlessly, when...
HIV testing and pregnancy
Couples who are thinking about trying to conceive a baby should ideally be tested for sexually-transmittable diseases, including HIV, before they decide to ditch the birth control, in my opinion...
How to cure pregnancy diarrhea?
Pregnancy diarrhea can be unpleasant, embarrassing, and time consuming. While this condition is mostly harmless, though not all that common, there is no doubt about the fact that it is...
The Cost of a Surrogate Mother
The options for surrogacy are sufficiently complicated that you need a quick guide to sorting out the costs. Here it is.The situations in which parents use the services of surrogate...
Essential baby items: what you really need to buy
No matter whether you are still trying to conceive, or are already pregnant, I am sure that you are interested in baby items. Clothes, diapers, strollers... What are the things...