Pregnancy is the most amazing experience a woman can have, as it brings a new life in the world making her mother. A woman goes through many changes during pregnancy to reach motherhood. The utmost effort and desire by moms are to see her baby healthy and full of life. To achieve this goal she becomes excessively conscious. Most of the pregnant women seek handy information throughout their pregnancy to give birth to a healthy baby.

To have a healthy new born in your lap, there are certain guide lines which can be followed.

Medical Examination

First of all, go for a complete medical examination soon after learning that you are pregnant. These are guidelines for the doctor to determine the type of medications needed for proceeding healthfully. They are also used to provide the necessary quantities of iron and calcium required by the hosting body.

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Results of a new study suggest that the women, who are planning for becoming pregnant, must drop the extra weight they are carrying, as they have higher odds to give birth to babies with some birth defects.

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Judith Rankin, the lead author of the study, says: “Our study has found that obesity in pregnant women increases the risk of birth defects in babies they bear.”

The study has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Feb.11 issue.

There are many previous studies whose results show that obesity in pregnant women can become the cause of various problems including gestational diabetes, higher risk of blood clotting, hypertension, infections and Cesarean delivery. Similarly, babies born to these women may be too large and have a higher risk for perinatal death.

Obesity in pregnant women is also associated with different congenital anomalies like spina bifida, defects in neural tube, cleft lip, heart defects etc.

A new research study published on Monday in Journal Cancer has revealed that pregnant women do not have death risk on a higher level than non-pregnant breast cancer patients. The study was lead by Dr. Beth Beadle of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.

The study was aimed to find out whether pregnant women are hardly hit by cancer than the others or not. Surprisingly, the new research results have contradicted the previous study results which in past pointed to a higher death risk for pregnant women.

The study included data of 652 women aged 35 and younger. All these were treated at M.D. Anderson from 1973 through 2006 for cancer. The patients included in the study were 104. Amongst them, 51 patients had breast cancer during their pregnancy and 53 developed it afterwards, almost within a year.

Most of smokers don’t know that even third-hand smoke can be dangerous for babies and pregnant women, a US study finds.

Different contaminations in cigarette smoke can stick to hair or fabrics, but in this survey of 1,500 people, it was noticed that even less than half of smokers were aware of that fact.

Only one third had a strict rule regarding not to smoke in their house, the journal Pediatrics report suggests.

Tommy’s, the UK baby charity, says that it is quite important for pregnant women to be alerted.

There is a lot of evidence, which shows that second-hand can be risky for health and especially for kids and most of parents seem to adopt a policy of not smoking in the presence of their kids.

But Jonathan Winickoff, a Professor at Massachusetts Hospital, says that it doesn’t provide complete protection.

Researchers warn that pregnant women, who are at the risk of early delivery, shouldn’t be given high dosages of steroids.

These steroids help to boost lung development of the fetus and thus enhance the possibilities of survival.

However, the results of the study that include 1800 women show that increased doses of steroids don’t prove effective and they can become the cause of bearing babies smaller in size.

Researchers from Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto Canada write in the Lancet that doctors must try to follow a single course of treatment.

Dr. Kellie Murphy, who led the study, says: “Doctors, these days, start giving more doses of steroids when pregnant women don’t have the delivery after one course of treatment.”

According to a new Dutch study, damage to the arteries of smokers’ children may detect in the early decades of their lives.

Dr. Cuno S.P.M Uiterwaal, who led the study, says: “many other studies have also found that smoking in families can harm children’s cardiovascular system, but our study adds that such effect may occur in very early life due to tobacco exposure.”

The finding has been reported in the December issue of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology. The researchers used ultrasound to assess the thickness of the walls of carotid arteries (the major blood vessels to the brain) in 732 young adults with 28 year average age. The records unveiled that more than 60 percent of the fathers and 29 percent of the mothers used to smoke during the pregnancies.

Those pregnant women, who consume more than 100 milligram caffeine a day, develop a higher risk of delivering an underweight baby, findings published in BMJ.

This latest research is also indicating that, the amount of caffeine a person consumes through any source such as tea, coffee, beverages, chocolates or prescribed drugs, may directly effects one’s health, especially when pregnant.

Researchers found that, pregnant women who take more than two cups of coffee a day have a risk of miscarriage twofold than those women who avoid caffeine. Underweight infants are more likely to develop multiple health issues when they grow older, including hypertension, diabetes and heart diseases.

Women who use caffeine between 100-200 milligrams, had a 20 percent amplified risk of having a baby of low birth weight, the study found. Comparison was made with the women who consumed less than 100 milligrams daily.

“Caffeine consumption during pregnancy was associated with an increased risk of fetal growth restriction and this association continued throughout pregnancy,” Justin Konje at the University of Leicester in Britain and colleagues wrote.

BOSTON – Flu vaccine shots administered to pregnant women in third trimester will provide protection against influenza during the first six months of their neonates’ lives, researchers said.

“Immunize the mother and you protect the infant,” Dr. Mark Steinhoff, a pediatrician with the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, said.

According to the test of 340 pregnant women in Bangladesh, vaccine shots, cut down the risk of flu, by 63 percent and the overall risk of respiratory track infections (RTI) by 29 percent. Six confirmed cases of influenza where there in the vaccinated group, compared to 16 among the mothers given a different vaccine.