Doctor Profiles of 2010
My New
Orleans
That’s where they were evaluated and told that they
weren’t going to get pregnant with their own
eggs. Lu says that the relatively new science of
fertility …
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Randomized Trial Reports Similar Live Birth Rates with Single
and Double IUI
IVF
NEWS.Direct!
… Polyzos et al Fertility and
Sterility, 2009 demonstrated the absence of any benefit of double
IUI over single IUI with respect to clinical pregnancy
…
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Move over supplements, there’s something yummier! Milkmakers
Cookies are a great new product to help you boost your milk
supply. Check ‘em out!
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Need better sleep, eco-friendly lunch supplies, or a fantastic
popsicle recipe? We thought so. They’re all in our 10 best
posts on Blisstree last week, which we present here just for you:
1. Dream Catchers: 10 Coolest Sleep Masks on the Internet 2. 10
Ways to an Eco-Friendly Bedroom: Green Your House … More
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Weekend
Catch-Up: Top 10 Blisstree Posts of Last Week
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Did you like the chalk art from this morning? Well, we thought you
might like to see how it’s actually made. And we also thought
you might want to reconnect with your inner five-year-old and
orchestrate a chalk-drawing extravaganza this afternoon. See if you
can manage to create your very …
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Even Cooler 3-D Chalk Art: Video of the Day
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TVs Dr. Oz from the hour long
Emmy-winning nationally-syndicated “The Dr. Oz
Show”and Dr. Michael Roizen, who co-authors a book
with Dr. Oz, have launched a newiPhone
appforexpectant
motherslooking for answersto their
questions about having a healthy pregnancy called
YOU:Having A Baby. The app provides expectant mothers
with advice and information about their pregnancy from
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MedPage Today — Having a male relative with breast cancer boosts
the family’s perception of their own risk but doesn’t help the odds
that they will do something about it, analysis of national survey
data showed.
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AUGUSTA, Ga., July 31 (UPI) — Black teens deficient in vitamin D, who took vitamin D supplements of 2,000 international units, had less central arterial stiffness, U.S. researchers found. Health – Nutrition – United States – Nutrients – Vitamins and Minerals
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Having sex makes you pregnant and therefore it should follow that having more sex makes you more likely to get pregnant, correct? Well not quite. The answer is somewhere in between; there is an optimum amount of sex that one can have to have the best chance to get pregnant.
It is important to have regular sex because doing that can ensure that the quality of sperm is good. Long periods of abstinence could mean that the old sperm count in the semen increases, and the possibility of conception may therefore decrease. It is important to have sex regularly, every two to three days so that sperm quality is regularly refreshed.
Also, positions that permit the deepest penetration and therefore make it possible for sperm to be deposited as close as possible to the cervix are preferable to initiate a pregnancy.
It is also very important to coincide intercourse with ovulation when a woman is most fertile. The best time is just before the woman ovulates so that the chances of getting pregnant are the best they can be.
Post intercourse it can also help for a woman to lie flat on her back with her hips slightly elevated for a period of 20 minutes to create a pregnancy too.
This year’s theme is “Breastfeeding; Just 10 Steps! The “Ten Step” theme commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Innocenti Declaration developed by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
Research shows that implementation of just some of the 10 steps recommended for maternity facilities improve breastfeeding initiation and duration rates. The Ten Steps recommended are:
For more information on breastfeeding, here are some helpful articles:
Holly Josephine!
Born July 28th, 2010. 8lbs, 14oz. Healthy and gorgeous, with all 10 fingers and toes. And she’s ours!
How it all happened: Today at about 4pm we got a call from our social worker telling us that there was an “instant baby” born yesterday. This means that the birth mother hadn’t contacted the agency until after the baby was born. We agreed to show her our family book, and about two hours later, she’d picked us and we were on our way to the hospital. We meet her birth mom and family and got to hold her. Man, did I mention she’s gorgeous? We don’t get to bring her home until Saturday, but we’ll get to spend all day tomorrow with her at the hospital. We’re very much in shock and so happy!
More later when things have calmed down a bit. As of right now, it’s 2:00 AM and this is how we feel:
Just chugging away at my studies. The reproductive A&P class seems to involve a whole lot more reading and studying than one would imagine a two credit course to be! It’s exciting though, since it’s getting into the nitty gritty of midwifery foundations.
Research seems to be a continuation of the theory course I took last term. Reading studies, picking them apart, analyzing them down to the finest details: all very important when integrating the latest studies/research into midwifery care. You need to know what studies are worth your time and are accurate, and what studies aren’t worth the paper they’re written on.
In the meanwhile, L&D is as busy as it usually is for the summer. The worst is yet to come apparently. I heard a rumor that there is a huge volume of women who are due in August — more than previous months. Which I can totally see. We do tend to have an upward swing in number of births in August. Apparently, people are very busy nine months before in November. (Been there, done that – I have two August babies myself!)
Tired, tired, tired. Looking forward to deciding where to go on vacation next year. My other half and I are looking forward to a real vacation, just the two of us. Possibilities include: a cruise in the Caribbean, Aruba, or maybe even Jamaica or the D.R.
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It’s been awhile since I’ve posted the latest updates on pregnant
celebrity gossip so here it goes: Alicia Keys and her fiance
rapperproducerwriter Swizz Beatz say they plan to wed before the
baby comes. As reported in Life and Style:
Theyre planning a
celebration in Europe very soon, an insider reveals
to Life Style. It will be a star-studded
celebration, with Jay-Z and Beyonc
among
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Two flu vaccine makers said on Friday they had started shipping
supplies for the U.S. market, one of the earliest starts ever to
distributing seasonal influenza vaccine.
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If you’re trying to bring your blood pressure to healthy levels, a
new study suggests that how much you weigh is more important than
how fit you are.
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While most stroke survivors will suffer falls, strategies to
prevent these dangerous events continue to fall short, suggests a
new study out of Australia.
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Despite studies suggesting that birth control pills might not work
as well in obese women, a new study suggests that they prevent
pregnancy the same no matter what a woman weighs.
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Paging script-writers: Pumping on a patient’s chest during CPR
while a stretcher careens down a hospital hallway works just fine,
Chinese researchers have found.
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Doctors should advise women who use Evamist spray to prevent
children from coming into contact with their medicated skin to
avoid possible adverse events such as premature puberty for girls
and enlarged breasts for boys, according to the FDA.
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Dogs just cant help it. They automatically and
voluntarily imitate the behavior of their owners, even if it costs
them a snack.
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Osteoarthritis patients who were also obese lost weight after
undergoing total knee or hip replacement surgery, according to a
recent study published in Orthopedics.
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The new health reform law ” the Affordable Care
Act — bodes well for as many as 30 million women — a number that
includes 15 million women who are uninsured, according to a new
report.
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I took nap with my daughter the other day and when we awoke I
noticed she was cross-eyed. Actually it was more like
reverse-cross-eyed. One of her eyes was looking at me and the other
was drifting off to the left. I immediately wondered if my sleeping
with her could have caused this new development.–Caused her to go
blind.
I yelled to my husband to have him come look and I held back
the tears I could feel forming.
“She always looks like that,” he told me.
“She always looks cross-eyed?” I didn’t believe it. Anyways, I
had stared at her 1000Xs more than he had. I would have
noticed.
“She’s just tired, she just woke up,” he tried to console me,
and hide a chuckle.
“What if she’s going blind?” My paranoia wouldn’t let
down.
He snapped his fingers in his direction and she looked over at
him. I was satisfied but only later thought of the fact that she
could have been reacting to the sound of him snapping and not his
fingers moving.
I fed her, and kept watching her eyes and noticed when she was
looking normal again. Then I realized this is going to be a long
hard journey.
I’m a hypochondriac. I’ve pretty much always self-diagnoised
myself with all sorts of sicknesses and diseases. I claim I have
mono when I’m actually just sleepy. I’m convinced I have a heart
disease because I watched a special about Marfans on the Health
Channel and so many of the symptoms explain my issues. I thought I
had cancer when I discovered a lump in my breast I actually did
have to have it surgically removed. Luckily it was benign, but you
can imagine my fear when they said it wasn’t a cyst.
Now, unfortunately my delusions have carried over with my
child. I can’t read anything about babies and illness without
worrying about Lil’ J.
I pray every night that she’ll be alive when I wake up and
often jump up startled in the middle of the night when I realize I
haven’t heard her stir in awhile. I googled “green poop” when I saw
a diaper full of it this morning. I hate that I’m acting this way
but truthfully, I’ve done this with my dog–So it’s only expected
that with my own child it’s magnified by a thousand.
Some friends told me about baby motion monitors and I’m
thinking of getting one. This may put me in the category of
“cuckoo” but I think it’ll also give me a little piece of mind, and
maybe help me sleep a little better.
I’ve heard a lot of good things about the Angel Care monitor
but I’m thinking of getting a Snuza since it’s more easily portable
and has a vibration that will ring on baby if se doesn’t breath or
move for 15 seconds. The alarm sounds 5 seconds later if still
nothing.
It’s not about vanity, it’s about my sanity.
I’m not sure if I’ll ever be sane again–Now that I’m a mom, but at
least I can admit I need help.
CNS Stores sells bedroom
vanity items, and nursery amenities including a
few motion baby monitors and I’m hoping to buy one soon!-
Sponsored.
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WebMD answers common concerns about children who co-sleep with
their parents at night and how to help them break the habit and
sleep in their own beds.
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Whether you are into
making your own baby food or just feeding the family wholesome home
grown fruits and vegetables from a local source, your best bet is
to hit the local farmer’s market near you to stock up on goodies.
Even in urban areas, cooperatives of farmers make arrangement to
bring their wares into the city. Most of the time, even if the
foods are not “
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