Copyright 2012 Medical News TodayLatest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day.http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/pregnancy/admin@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Admin)editors@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Editors)en-us Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241461.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241461.phpIn a study presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, in Dallas, Texas, researchers reported findings that indicate that preterm birth interventions should be tailored for underlying risk factors and pathways...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241462.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241462.phpIn a study presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, in Dallas, Texas, researchers reported findings that indicate that for women with prior delivery via cesarean section the optimal timing of elective delivery for mother and baby is 39 weeks even after consideration of the risk with continuing pregnancy...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241451.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241451.phpIn a study to be presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, in Dallas, Texas, researchers reported findings that indicate that the risk of obstetric intervention is lower for women who deliver or intend to deliver outside of hospitals, but there are some higher risks for newborns intended for home births compared to hospital births...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241452.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241452.phpIn a study presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, in Dallas, Texas, researchers reported findings that indicate that massively parallel sequencing can be used to diagnose fetal aneuploidies, including Down syndrome, Edwards syndrome, Patau syndrome and Turner syndrome...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241453.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241453.phpIn a study presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, in Dallas, Texas, researchers reported findings that show that in women with acute postpartum anemia, due to excessive blood loss during delivery, red blood cell transfusion led to a statistically significant decrease in physical fatigue...Blood / Hematology Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241533.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241533.php Cesarean deliveries have not been considered damaging or risky to a new born's health, but new research is beginning to overturn that assumption. A good example is preterm babies that are small for their gestational age. Erika F. Werner, MD, MS, assistant professor of Maternal Fetal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, made the research along with Heather S...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241530.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241530.php A recent study published by the The Lancet Oncology indicates that children of women who received chemotherapy during their pregnancy suffer no adverse effects, developing as well as children in the general population. The study was led by Dr Frédéric Amant, Multidisciplinary Breast Cancer Center, Leuven Cancer Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241516.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241516.phpAccording to a study which involved more than 4,000 participants, more information about potential disorders can be obtained using chromosomal microarray (CMA) to test a developing fetus' DNA, than the standard method of prenatal tests, which is used to visually analyze the chromosomes (karyotyping)...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241400.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241400.phpChildren of mothers screened and treated for reduced thyroid function during pregnancy show no signs of improved IQ compared to women who receive no treatment, new research has uncovered...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241415.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241415.phpHigher blood levels of cadmium in females, and higher blood levels of lead in males, delayed pregnancy in couples trying to become pregnant, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other academic research institutions...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241384.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241384.php In 2008, rates of teen pregnancies in the US reached their lowest level in nearly 40 years...Pediatrics / Children's Health Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241333.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241333.phpWomen who did not plan to get pregnant are much more likely to stop breastfeeding within three months of giving birth, according to a study published in the journal Current Anthropology. The research suggests that women whose pregnancies were unplanned often experience more emotional and physical discomfort with breastfeeding compared to women who planned to get pregnant...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241335.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241335.phpCleansing a newborn's umbilical cord with chlorhexidine can reduce an infant's risk of infection and death during the first weeks of life by as much as 20 percent, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health...Pediatrics / Children's Health Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241341.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241341.phpWhile researchers have long set to determine if there is a tie between race and teenage pregnancy, according to a new study, equating black teenagers with the problem of teenage pregnancy is a misrepresentation of today's real­ity. This new study is detailed in the article, "Black Teenage Pregnancy: A Dynamic Social Problem," published in SAGE Open. Researchers Lorette I. Winters and Paul C...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241374.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241374.php Two recent studies published in The Lancet indicate that cleansing of the umbilical cord during childbirth could substantially reduce the risk of infection and rate of mortality in babies in developing countries...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241184.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241184.phpA newly available DNA-based prenatal blood test that can identify a pregnancy with Down syndrome can also identify two additional chromosome abnormalities: trisomy 18 (Edwards syndrome) and trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome).The test for all three defects can be offered as early as 10 weeks of pregnancy to women who have been identified as being at high risk for these abnormalities...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241036.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241036.phpCan pregnant women improve their progeny's intelligence by eating fish? A study recently submitted to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and coordinated by the University of Granada professor Cristina Campoy Folgoso revealed that infants born to mothers who consumed more fish during pregnancy score higher in verbal intelligence and fine motor skill tests, and present an...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241021.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241021.phpAlthough women over age 50 who become pregnant via egg donation are at an elevated risk for developing obstetrical complications, their complication rates are similar to those of younger recipients, according to a study by Columbia University Medical Center researchers to be published in the February 2012 issue of the American Journal of Perinatology...Fertility Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241045.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241045.phpDoes eating fish during pregnancy improve a child's intelligence? According to a recent study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition the answer is yes. The study revealed that infants of mothers who consumed more fish during pregnancy achieved higher scores in verbal intelligence and fine motor skill testing, as well as having a higher pro-social behavior...Pediatrics / Children's Health Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240904.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240904.phpWomen have long bemoaned the fact that as they have more children, their weight gain from pregnancy becomes more difficult to lose. A new study using a mouse model that mimics the human effects of multiparity (giving birth more than once) has found that mouse moms who gave birth four times accrued significantly more fat compared to primiparous females (those giving birth once) of similar age...Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240833.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240833.phpWomen who consumed a diet high in animal fat and cholesterol before pregnancy were at higher risk for gestational diabetes than women whose diets were lower in animal fat and cholesterol, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health and Harvard University. Gestational diabetes is a form of diabetes seen during pregnancy...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240890.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240890.php Despite a decrease in home births between 1990 and 2004, the number of home births actually increased between 2004 and 2009 by 29%, an upturn of 0.56% in 2004, to 0.72% in 2009. In 2009, a total of 29,650 home births were reported in the United States. This is the most home births reported since researchers began analyzing data on this topic in 1989...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240879.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240879.phpApproximately 1 in every 15,000 pregnant women will develop subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) - bleeding in the area between the brain and the thin membranes that cover the brain, according to a study published in the February issue of Anesthesiology...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240875.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240875.php HIV-positive mothers can protected their babies from becoming infected with the virus if they take antiretroviral drugs during pregnancy. However, even though these drugs prevent transmitting the disease to the child, they could potentially cause birth defects like cleft lip and palate...HIV / AIDS Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240826.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240826.phpAfter falling for 14 years, the percentage of home births in the US from 2004 to 2009 rose by 29% to the highest level since data collection on this began in 1989. However, although this looks like a big surge, the overall proportion of American women giving birth at home is still low: in 2004 only 0.56% of births were at home, rising to 0.72% in 2009...Pregnancy / Obstetrics