Congratulations you’re pregnant... BUT have you ever considered the possibility of being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes? Pregnancy is something special and finding out you have type 2 diabetes is like missing a heartbeat its scary especially when you find out that it can cause your baby and yourself harm. Having type 2 diabetes can affect the health of the baby and the chance the baby growing up with type 2 diabetes is pretty high as well. Should having diabetes stop you from having a baby? in my
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Group-based antenatal care is a form of care for pregnant mothers that exist in different countries like United States of America‚ Australia and European countries. This approach came with the current trend toward patient centered care (Thielen‚ 2012). The first initiation of group based antenatal care was from USA in early 1970 (Wedin‚ Molin‚ & Crang Svalenius‚ 2010). Centering pregnancy is one model of group-based antennal care was started by Schindler- Rising in early 1990s (Wedin‚ Molin‚ & Crang
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Researches about exercise and pregnancy struggle with the pros and cons of exercise during pregnancy. For many years‚ physicians suggested moderate activity levels for pregnant women‚ and then made a drastic flip‚ stating that pregnant women should continue with their activities‚ or give up sedentary lifestyles in favor of regular physical exercise‚ stating that it would facilitate an easy labor and delivery. It seems‚ according to current researches about exercise during pregnancy‚ in some ways
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Maternal mortality due to sepsis is worryingly increasing through developed and developing countries. This is despite a worldwide effort towards reducing maternal death‚ maternal sepsis during pregnancy remains one of the worlds leading causes of preventable maternal death. In developed countries 3% of all maternal mortality is due to sepsis‚ whilst that figure jumps to 12% in developing countries. Pregnancy affected by severe sepsis or septci shock‚ run the risk of pre-term labour‚ fetal infect
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Case Study # 1 A 30 year old woman has been trying to get pregnant for a year now. She’s always had irregular menstrual periods‚ but just recently her breasts starting secreting milk and she noticed that her sex drive was diminishing. She became so excited that she immediately took a pregnancy test‚ but the result was negative. She went to visit her doctor the following day to have her blood taken to confirm whether she managed to get a false negative on her pregnancy test. After her examination
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Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome Learn about TTTS. 5/9/2008 Jesselle Davis Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome April 28‚ 2008 Jesselle Davis When most people think of someone being pregnant with twins they think “Oh how cute‚ what a blessing!” or something among those lines and you have your few that give you this shocking look of pity and think “Oh my God‚ GOODLUCK!”‚ but no one has a clue exactly how delicate and stressful carrying identical twin babies can be. When I found
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Abstract There exist some evidence that poverty can result in low birth weight in newborn infants. On Prince Edward Island‚ low birth weights are currently the lowest as compared to the national average according to Statistics Canada. However‚ the link that exist between poverty and low birth weights leaves unanswered questions as to what can be done to reduce these low birth weights in newborn infants. The effect of Poverty on Low Birth Weight in Newborns Receiving good prenatal care is
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Years ago it was impossible to determine if your unborn baby would have any physical‚ mental or genetic condition. At that time parents could do nothing more then just wait for the end of pregnancy to see how their baby would be and what gender it would be. Technology has gone forward since that time and now there is a vast possibility for parents to know before hand any conditions that the child might have. However having this “weapon” in their hands does it mean that the parents should use it?
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Scurvy is perhaps the oldest known deficiency disease. However‚ its specific relationship to ascorbic acid was not recognized until the 20th century. It generally occurs between six and 18 months of age‚ but can start much earlier in pre-mature babies or those borne of mothers who lacked nutritious food during their later stages of pregnancies. This makes it a type of malnutratian. Mal nutrtiian is a pretty broad typic but a lot of children suffer from it ‚ Malnutrition is a dietary condition caused
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STAGES OF LABOUR Before you actually get into it‚ you might want to know what labour is? Well‚ labour is a series of events that bring about the opening up of the cervix (opening of the mouth of uterus) descent of the foetus and finally the delivery of the baby and the afterbirths. It is divided in to four stages: 1st STAGE It is the beginning of labour. It commences with the onset of true pain and uterine contractions‚ which bring about gradual opening up of the cervix. The opening of cervix
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