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New rules on pregnancy weight
WASHINGTON - Telling a pregnant woman to eat for two is bad advice, especially if the mother-to-be is overweight or obese, a blue-ribbon panel of health experts cautioned Thursday. The number of seriously overweight women of child-bearing age is increasing, panelists said, and excessive weight gain leads to an increased likelihood of cesarean sections and retaining the weight BY THE...read more...// //Bristol Palin on teen sex: Wait
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's 18-year-old daughter, an unwed mother, says teenagers should avoid having sex. However, Bristol Palin acknowledges that abstinence is "not realistic at all.'' She commented during a two-part interview recorded for Fox News Channel. Just days after the governor was named John McCain's running mate on the Republican presidential...read more...// //When your baby's having a baby
If your daughter is pregnant and planning to have the baby, many changes await your family. And though it's certainly not what most parents expect, it happens every day: Nearly 1 million teenage girls in the United States give birth every year. If your teen is about to become a mother (or your son has fathered a child), it can be overwhelming for all of you. How can you support...read more...// //Teens aren't shocked over pregnancy
BY JAWEED KALEEM, jkaleem@MiamiHerald.com They've seen Juno, the box office hit about a pregnant teen. They've heard Jamie Lynn Spears, sister of Britney, say she was carrying at age 16. They tune in for The Secret Life of the American Teenager , an ongoing ABC drama about a pregnant 15-year-old. Now add Bristol Palin, spotlight of the week. When Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah...read more...// //Cool tips for summer pregnancy
By ERIN WALTERS, TheNestBaby.com With your belly getting bigger and bigger just as we head into summer, you may find yourself wondering if you'll make it out alive. But don't worry -- while it's true that a summer pregnancy isn't always easy, here are a few tricks to ease your hot-weather woes. DEHYDRATION Getting enough fluids is especially tough in the hot...read more...// //Gloucester teens: If they knew what I know
BY ANA VECIANA-SUAREZ , aveciana@MiamiHerald.com For years I've joked that the best contraceptive was a bawling baby at 3 a.m. I was a young mother then, still inexperienced in the ways of colic and projectile vomiting. I thought I would never get a good night's sleep again. Time worked its magic, of course. Those nerve-wrecking colic bouts faded into memory, and I learned to clean up vomit...read more...// //Pitts: Bad policy fathers teen pregnancy
BY LEONARD PITTS JR ., lpitts@MiamiHerald.com So all we know for sure is that something happened in Gloucester, Mass. What that something was depends on whom you believe. Last week on its website, Time magazine quoted Gloucester High Principal Joseph Sullivan as saying that, of 17 girls who became pregnant during the school year, nearly half did so as part of a "pact'' to have and raise...read more...// //Pregnant teens: Was there a pact?
By MELISSA TRUJILLO, Associated Press GLOUCESTER, Mass. -- A pregnant high school student disputed her principal's headline-grabbing theory Tuesday that girls in this New England fishing town made a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together. "There was definitely no pact,'' 17-year-old Lindsey Oliver told Good Morning America on Tuesday. "There was a group of...read more...// //In court: lesbian insemination case
By LISA LEFF, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO -- Guadalupe Benitez claims that after being treated with fertility drugs for nearly a year, her Christian doctors refused to inseminate her because she is a lesbian. She sued and a San Diego County trial judge sided with her. But an appeals court reversed the ruling, and her lawsuit is scheduled to be heard by the California Supreme Court this week....read more...// //Staying fit before and after baby
By ERIN WALTERS , TheNestBaby.com With role models like New York City Marathon winner Paula Radcliffe, who trained throughout her pregnancy, it's clear that exercise doesn't need to stop when pregnancy begins. And when you consider the benefits of exercise -- including lower risk of gestational diabetes, easier labor, and a more speedy recovery -- exercise is one of the best things a mom-to-be can do...read more...'What to Expect' gets a makeover
NEW YORK -- That woman on the cover of America's best-known pregnancy advice book doesn't have a name -- she's only a sketch, after all. But countless women have come to know this expectant mom over the years, with her dowdy clothes and nondescript haircut, staring placidly into space from the safety of a rocking chair. She needed an update. And now she has one: The woman adorning the just-released fourth...read more...
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