Pregnancy News

New Laws Affecting California Employers

Pregnancy News — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:45:39 +0000

A number of new laws affecting employers took effect on January 1, 2012. Learn more about them and how employees may be affected as well.

Houston has more large birth-weight babies

Pregnancy News — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:32:36 +0000

Americans shared a collective jaw drop when JaMichael Brown of Longview, Texas, came into the world last summer weighing a whopping 16 pounds.

‘Morning-After’ Pill May Be New Option to Treat Painful Fibroids

Pregnancy News — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:57:47 +0000

WEDNESDAY Feb. 1, 2012 -- The morning-after pill may help shrink painful fibroids and relieve excessive bleeding, new research indicates.

Color Names for Baby

Pregnancy News — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:47:57 +0000

Beyonce and JayZ are not the first parents to choose a baby name that is a color, but baby Blue Ivy might be one of the most recent ones to be well known.

More Women Choosing To Have Their Babies At Home

Pregnancy News — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:17:24 +0000

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.

Home Birth on the Rise

Pregnancy News — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:22:21 +0000

Historically speaking, home birth was were the vast majority of babies were born prior to the 1900s.

Columbia Labs Shares Are A Speculative Buy Here

Pregnancy News — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:20:59 +0000

Shares of Columbia Laboratories once again took a beating yesterday, cut by more than half, after a negative 13-4 vote by the FDA Advisory Committee on Friday after-hours, recommending against approving its progesterone vaginal gel 8% Prochieve in reducing the risk of pre-term birth in women with a single gestation and a short uterine cervical ... (more)

Worried About No Pregnancy Symptoms?

Pregnancy News — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:27:14 +0000

We spend a lot of time talking about pregnancy symptoms . What they are, what they mean and how to deal with them.

Hunt for thousands of women left at risk from ’silent Thalidomide’…

Pregnancy News — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:34:41 +0000

'Silent Thalidomide': Thousands of mothers and their daughters at risk of cancer from anti-miscarriage drugs they took decades ago Thousands of women whose mothers were prescribed the common pregnancy drug DES are unaware they are at greater risk of a number of cancers, according to experts.

Lawyer hunts for UK ‘DES daughters’

Pregnancy News — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:19:54 +0000

Women whose mothers were prescribed the common pregnancy drug DES will be encouraged to seek compensation as it has been linked to certain cancers.