Pregnancy and Over 40

Filed under: Pregnancy — Gettingpregnant.com Team @ 10:46 pm

LIFE, apparently, begins at 40. But whoever decided on that little motto probably didn’t have a literal meaning in mind.

Yet these days the fifth decade is becoming increasingly popular when it comes to women beginning their families….

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L-Carnipure supplements may help reduce diabetes during pregnancy

Filed under: Pregnancy — Gettingpregnant.com Team @ 10:51 pm

Taking supplements of L-Carnipure tartrate during pregnancy can significantly reduce the increased level of plasma free fatty acids that is considered the main cause of insulin resistance in pregnant women, shows a new study…

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Pregnancy weight gain info

Filed under: Getting Pregnant Update, Pregnancy — Gettingpregnant.com Team @ 1:19 pm

Hey we just added a great articled titled “Pregnancy Weight Gain - The Mystery Solved” to our new pregnancy section.

An informative piece that discusses weight gain during pregnancy and explains certain guidelines that you can take to ensure that it is all a healthy weight gain. This article also says that you should avoid dieting and that if you eat the right kind of foods it will be much easier to shed the pounds after you give birth.

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Chemotherapy & Pregnancy

Filed under: Pregnancy — Gettingpregnant.com Team @ 2:21 pm

“You have a lump. You have breast cancer.” Those are words every woman fears she’ll hear from their doctor. Now imagine how difficult it would be to get that diagnosis and then find out you’re pregnant. How can a pregnant woman get the life-saving chemotherapy she needs without harming her unborn child? …

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A great success story about one woman who had cancer yet went through with her pregnancy and had twins…

No Link Between Stress, IVF, and Pregnancy

Filed under: Infertility — Gettingpregnant.com Team @ 10:19 pm

Patients often worry that the stress and anxiety of infertility treatment will reduce their chances of becoming pregnancy, but a new study from Sweden shows this fear to be unfounded. ..

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Message board for gettingpregnant.com?

Filed under: Misc. Ramblings — Gettingpregnant.com Team @ 10:45 pm

We were wondering if any of you would be interested in us setting up a message board on Gettingpregnant.com .. this would include all your favorite catagories found on our site and would give you another way to find out more information on getting pregnant.. also may be a nice way to make new friends and discuss the latest issues surrounding us today.

Add a comment on the blog here.. it is really easy to do and you do not have to register here if you do not want to. Thanks for your feedback!

Filed under: Infertility — Gettingpregnant.com Team @ 2:57 pm

Women who have healthy babies as a result of infertility treatments may be unlikely candidates for postpartum depression. But new research suggests they might be uniquely vulnerable. ..

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An interesting look as some would tend to believe that those who went through all the treatments would be happiest and not have to deal.. but this article reveals that sometimes this is not the case.

Pregnancy Section on Getting Pregnant

Filed under: Getting Pregnant Update, Pregnancy — Gettingpregnant.com Team @ 2:36 pm

We are pleased to announce that our new pregnancy section is now available to everyone on gettingpregnant.com!

If you are looking for more information on pregnancy because you just got pregnant or if are trying to get pregnant but want to know more about it.. this section is for you. Over the next few weeks we will be adding even more articles to the section so it will be updated often just like our other sections!

Cesareans: What You Need To Know

Filed under: Getting Pregnant Update, Pregnancy — Gettingpregnant.com Team @ 12:50 am

We just added this article about cesareans to our website.. here is a couple paragraphs from it:

Every pregnant woman has a chance of needing to have a cesarean. The most important thing I can suggest is that if you are pregnant - then educate yourself. The old phrase “Ignorance is bliss” is plain stupid. Ignorance is a bad thing and education is the best. Read, read, read, read.

Read all you can about pregnancy and childbirth, both natural (vaginal) and cesarean. Attend birth classes. They are well worth the time and effort. Talk to other women who have been there. The worse thing you can do is to go blindly into pregnancy and childbirth and not know what’s going on, or what your options are.

http://www.gettingpregnant.com/pregnancy/cesareans.html

Pregnancies safe if morning after pill fails…

Filed under: Pregnancy — Gettingpregnant.com Team @ 8:05 pm

There do not appear to be any adverse consequences for the mother or the developing fetus in pregnancies that occur despite the use of the so-called “morning after” pill levonorgestrel, new research shows…

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Good news for those who took the pill and it did not work yet decided to have a healthy happy baby!

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