Pregnancy Articles

Many women go into their pregnancies worrying about gaining weight. This whole attitude is only strengthened by many doctors, who are obsessed with weighing women every time they come to...

When it comes to blood pressure, it is often high blood pressure that we hear about. That is probably because high blood pressure has the potential to cause a lot...

Many women suffer from hip pain in pregnancy. Hip pain has a tendency to increase as your pregnancy goes on, and can be an obstacle during the day, as you...

Finding out your baby's gender through ultrasound is the single most exciting aspect of prenatal care for many women. Knowing whether your baby is a boy or a girl means...

Almost everybody gets them sometimes cold sores, herpes, fever blisters, or whatever you like to call them. They are often associated with a somewhat weaker immune system. Because of this...

Once your baby bump starts growing, your nights keep getting shorter, or so it seems! Insomnia is a common problem in pregnancy. Sleepless nights can be caused by a wide...

Thrush is annoying condition caused by candida albicans. This fungus can present in the mouth, on the nipples, and in the vagina. It leads to itchy and sometimes painful discharge...

Fluid retention, swollen ankles and general bloating are symptoms that pop up while you are pregnant relatively often. These symptoms are completely normal and nothing to worry about, but they...

We discusses prenatal care to some extent in previous weeks. Today, we will discuss glucose tests, which most doctors recommend. Glucose tests are essentially screening tests, that are carried out...

If you have Rh negative blood, you will probably know about it before you get pregnant. Blood tests are nearly always conducted early in pregnancy to verify your blood type...