Need help exercise during pregnancy? As physical exercise promotes muscle tone, strength and endurance, can help carry the weight gain during pregnancy, prepare for the tough task of delivery, and facilitate the recovery of your figure when the baby is born. Unfortunately, there is evidence that regular exercise shortens…

Physical changes during pregnancy can do to change your exercise habits * Breathing: The breathing rate increases, since the body works harder to provide enough oxygen to the baby. Thus, the amount of oxygen available for exercise decreases and can cause shortness of breath and less endurance. * Musculature: As…

In the past pregnancy was considered as a disease. In cases where the family finances permitting, the woman was confined to an almost absolute rest. Now, with the existing control techniques, the possibility of exercising during pregnancy, not only is not contraindicated, but is recommended. First of all, it is…

If a couple has decided to start a family, it seems that the next step is easy. In most cases yes, but in many other pregnancy is delayed. The wait makes every attempt is alive with nervousness, and sometimes can give the impression that it is the same nervousness that…

When we measure the life of a person we consider the day of his birth. However, we exist as an independent being from the moment of conception. This method of recording our age is the idea that fund during the roughly nine months does a pregnancy, intrauterine baby is a…

Stress during pregnancy can affect the baby? Says Michel Odent, the renowned French obstetrician, that the main concern of those around them or care for a pregnant woman should be to ensure their emotional wellbeing. And is that, with advancing knowledge of physiology of pregnancy, also increases the certainty that…

Every day we come into contact with a multitude of substances or factors that may adversely affect our health and our children. In fact, our environment can leave its mark long before conception. And not only the environment of the mother but also the father of the future. Exposure to…

Preparing to host a baby Long-awaited moment arrived, perhaps imagined since we can remember: we have decided to become mothers. In a period of much excitement, before conception is important to prepare the body to hold our baby. Apart from avoiding harmful habits like smoking, is reliant on certain nutrients…

A team of Australian researchers has identified a relationship between allergic asthma in children 3-5 years of age and exposure to folic acid taking their mothers in the form of supplements in late pregnancy. The invetigadores warn that the time of pregnancy who take these supplements can be very important…

Community groups of women have achieved a remarkable reduction in mortality rates in some of the poorest areas of India, according to a study published in the journal Lancet and presented by Dr. Anthony Costello in Congress on Labor Interatlântico and Primal Health Research, held in Las Palmas de Gran…