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Female soldiers and staff advised to use condoms while deployed

Females deployed in the theater of war are now being urged to use condoms after numbers revealed a spike in pregnancy rates.
Britain’s Ministry of Defence has placed an advertisement in the Army magazine Soldier, urging women who are in the theater of war to take extra precautions when it comes to sexual relations.
The Telegraph reports [...]

Mother and baby saved by doctors in operation to remove massive tumor

A British woman and her baby were saved by doctors last summer, who removed a massive tumor that was cutting off blood and oxygen to the pair.
Nicola Ellington, of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, was excited to be pregnant for the first time. Little did she know that her pregnancy would be complicated by a tumor that had [...]

Nearly one in four US women are ambivalent about getting pregnant

New research has found that nearly one out of four women in the US is “OK either way” about getting or not getting pregnant.
While it’s generally true that with each generation of people attitudes shift, scientists like to know how and why. Enter Julia McQuillan, professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
McQuillan wanted to [...]

That’s not appendicitis; it’s a baby boy!

A British woman who thought she had appendicitis unexpectedly gave birth to a baby boy instead.
Kimberley Robinson, of Hull, England, had early in the year suffered problems with her appendix. So when she woke at 6:30 a.m. on February 1 with mild stomach pain and shortness of breathe, she feared that she was having a [...]

British woman discovers she’s pregnant, gives birth three hours later

A British woman who discovered she was pregnant gave birth to a healthy girl three hours later.
Belinda Waite, 21, knew that something was wrong with her body for several months, but she and the doctors couldn’t pinpoint what was ailing her.
Waite, from Bampton, Devon, said that she had been to the Tiverton and District hospitals [...]

Scottish children’s agency highlights legacy of drinking while pregnant

The agency Children in Scotland strives to highlight how thousands of the country’s children are affected by women who binge drink while pregnant.
The agency Children in Scotland has made the conservative estimate that at least 900 children in the country suffer direct, debilitating consequences of their mother having drunk heavily during the first three months [...]

Official numbers reveal UK girls pregnant at 10

Official numbers out of the UK reveal that girls as young as 10 are getting pregnant.
The U.K.’s newspaper The Sun has revealed that in the last eight years, at least 15 girls aged 10 and 39 girls aged 11 became pregnant in England and Wales.
The Sun received its data through a Freedom of Information request, [...]

Scientists reject theory of ‘baby brain’ during pregnancy

Scientists in Australia have rejected the theory of “baby brain”, the idea that women have memory lapses due to a pregnancy.
The idea that a woman who becomes pregnant suffers memory lapses has been cited as fact by many authors promoting self-help books for pregnant women. Those authors may want to reconsider.
New research out of Australia [...]

New morning-after pill effective up to 5 days after

A new morning-after pill has been shown to be effective at stopping a woman from getting pregnant up to 5 days after unprotected sex.
Research out of the University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian in Scotland compared the effectiveness of commonly available morning-after pill levonorgestrel with a new form, ulipristal acetate.
The research, published in the medical [...]

Risk factors for depression in pregnant women reviewed

The risk factors for depression in pregnant women have been thoroughly reviewed to help clinicians identify and treat women early.
Researchers out of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have reviewed over 1,300 peer-reviewed articles about depression in pregnancy with hopes of clearly identifying risk factors for antepartum depression. The researchers expect the identification of [...]

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