Category: News
Women have too much faith in contraceptives
If you are on the pill, or use condoms, you can’t get pregnant — or can you? According to a new study, many women think that contraceptives are more effective than they actually are, which may place them at risk of an unwanted pregnancy.
Women over 40 — IVF may not get you pregnant!
Do you think that you can wait until you are older to try for a baby — because if it turns out that you can’t get pregnant naturally you can have IVF anyway? This way of thinking is increasingly common, but also, according to a new study, incorrect. About 20 percent of all women now [...]
Fertility drugs linked to leukemia in children
Ovarian stimulating fertility drugs are drastically increase the risk of leukemia in children, a French research team announced this week. Children of mothers who tried to conceive for more than a year before using fertility medications to get pregnant are as much as 50 percent more likely to develop acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which is the most [...]
Catholic school teacher fired for having IVF
Teachers in Christian schools have often been fired for getting pregnant outside of marriage, even in recent years in countries like the US and Australia. But can you image a Catholic school sacking a member of staff because she used IVF to get pregnant… months after being given time off for the treatment, and being [...]
Family dinners improve your health
Eating together as a family is a nice habit that too few people still have. New research also shows that families who eat their meals together are healthier. Unfortunately the study also showed that most families don’t eat together hardly at all, and that they choose to consume fast food separately instead of enjoying balanced [...]
IVF babies more likely to have birth defects?
An analysis of 46 studies about fertility treatments concluded that IVF babies are up to two thirds more likely to suffer from birth defects. Researchers from Nanjing Medical University in China weren’t sure if the increased risk was due to the fertility treatments themselves, or if they were connected to the underlying reason of the parents’ [...]
Premature babies should be given milk earlier?
Premature babies are vulnerable to many health problems, including bowel issues— which is why they are often tube-fed and milk feed delayed until much later. According to a new study, preemies may actually benefit from being moved to milk earlier, and doing so doesn’t increase their risk of developing bowel problems, including necrotising enterocolitis.
Jessica Simpson: c-section to avoid pain?
Singer Jessica Simpson and her fiance Eric Johnson are expecting their first baby any day now. But although Simpson booked a luxury birth suite at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and tried hypnotherapy to prepare her for childbirth and to ease her fears, she is now allegedly thinking about having a c-section to avoid the pain of [...]
Mom who had baby through surrogate denied paid maternity leave
Jane Kassim, a teaching assistant from the UK, was born without a uterus and never had a chance to become pregnant. She and her partner decided to choose parenthood with the help of Jane’s cousin, who acted as a surrogate mother for her twin babies. Jane was ecstatic to become a mother, but shocked to [...]
Study: egg donation doesn’t cause infertility
Have you ever thought of becoming an egg donor to help someone else have a baby, and perhaps to make some money? Donating eggs is a complicated process that is much more invasive than donating sperm, and many women who would otherwise be happy to donate eggs give up on the idea because of medical [...]
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