Women who are underweight when they become pregnant have an increased risk of severe, potentially dangerous nausea and vomiting, a large study suggests.

Many women suffer “morning sickness”…

Indulging in chocolate during pregnancy could help ward off a serious complication known as preeclampsia, new research suggests.

Chocolate, especially dark chocolate, is rich in a chemical called theobromine, which…

Mothers born in India and Sri Lanka are three times more likely to suffer from extreme nausea and vomiting in pregnancy (hyperemesis gravidarum) than ethnic Norwegians.…

When you detect proteinuria in a pregnant woman, a number of conditions should come to mind. It can mean a lupus flair or suggest the presence of preeclampsia. But in…

For many women, the lovely images of life with a new baby don’t jive with their reality. Instead of feeling happy, they feel overwhelmed.

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New research by the Universities of Exeter and Oxford provides the first evidence that a child’s sex is associated with the mother’s diet.…

Pregnancy rates could be doubled for couples undertaking fertility treatment, thanks to a revolutionary project being trialled by the University of Adelaide.

Researchers from the University’s Discipline of Obstetrics and Gynaecology…

Human reproduction entails a fundamental paradox: although it is critical to the survival of the species, the process is relatively inefficient. Maximal fecundity (the probability of conception during one menstrual…

Early Pregnancy Loss
The incidence of pregnancy loss after implantation is high, estimated at 25 to 40 percent. Although many losses involve genetic abnormalities, there is often no known cause. Hormonal factors,…

Guidelines for the treatment of HIV infection during pregnancy have increasingly diverged from the general guidelines for HIV treatment: a less aggressive strategy has evolved for the management of HIV infection…

Labor is the physiologic process by which a fetus is expelled from the uterus to the outside world. Labor is defined as an increase in myometrial activity or, more precisely, a switch in…

tudies have shown that exercise has a positive effect on mothers-to-be, and no detrimental impact on their developing offspring. A new study further extends the…

Being stressed out during the first half of pregnancy may be unhealthy, but it won’t increase a woman’s risk of developing a serious complication known as preeclampsia, Dutch researchers have…

A new test for identifying a mismatch between the blood of a pregnant woman and her baby is accurate, feasible, and could substantially reduce unnecessary treatment,…

Pregnant women who are in a car crash are much less likely to lose the fetus or have complications if they are wearing a seat belt, according…

Young women who smoke cigarettes, use marijuana or binge drink will often stop doing so while they are pregnant, but a partner’s pregnancy has no effect on young men’s…

New Saint Louis University research found that although white women are more likely to drink or binge drink prior to pregnancy, African-American women are less likely to reduce…

Minnesota students might learn different things about the birds and the bees depending on where they go to school, but their parents appear to support openness about most sex-related topics.

A majority…

A pain-free and drug-free labour may be many expectant mothers’ dream but a review in the open access journal BMC Medicine reveals that reality hits hard. Most women’s labour experiences differ markedly from…

A medical team from the University of Leicester has been able to establish for the first time a predictor for pregnant women who may have…

Giving up smoking during pregnancy may boost the chances of giving birth to an easy going child, indicates research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Current recommendations for weight gain during pregnancy – developed by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 1990 – should be revised, according to an internationally recognized obesity expert and chairman…

Women who use recreational drugs like cocaine and ecstasy around the time of conception and early in pregnancy may boost the chances their infants will be born with a…

Mothers who developed diabetes while pregnant - what doctor’s call gestational diabetes - appear to have a lower risk of developing breast cancer later in life, a new study…

Children who have been diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) are more likely to have serious psychiatric and behavioral problems later in life, including a higher…