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Importance of Well-being and Stress Response During Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes

Posted in Nutrition, Pregnancy on Feb 9th, 2015

Data on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in women military personnel was evaluated at the Veterans Administration to determine the association between PTSD within 1 year of delivery and risk or a history of a prior diagnosis of PTSD and the risk of preterm birth. In more than 16,000 deliveries, 19% were in women with PTSD […]

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Optimal Blood Levels of Vitamin D and Improved IVF Outcomes

Posted in Dietary Supplements, Nutrition, Pregnancy, Vitamin D on Jan 31st, 2015

An Italian study at a fertility center conducted a study to assess in vitro fertilization (IVF) outcomes in women who were of normal body weight, of reproductive and with adequate ovarian follicles. Women with a vitamin D serum level < 20 ng/mL (considered deficient) were compared with those having > 20 ng/mL (optimal levels = […]

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Peanuts to the Rescue!

Posted in General, Nutrition, Pregnancy on Feb 28th, 2014

In this study, children of women who participated in the Nurses Health Study II (NHSII) and the Growing Up Today Study 2 (GUTS2) and were born between January 1990 and Dec 31, 1994 were identified. A questionnaire was sent out in 2009 to the mother of every child in these two studies in order to […]

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Iron supplementation During Pregnancy

Posted in Dietary Supplements, General, Nutrition, Pregnancy on Oct 30th, 2013

Iron deficient anemia affects 38% of pregnant women around the world and is clearly one of the reasons prenatal iron supplements are recommended. Researchers in this systematic review and meta-analysis analyzed 48 randomized trials of iron supplementation, involving 17,793 women and 44 cohort studies of maternal anemia and birth outcomes involving 2 million women. Iron […]

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Folic acid & Autism

Posted in Dietary Supplements, Pregnancy, Prevention on Apr 24th, 2013

It has been known for some time now that folic acid supplementation during pregnancy can protect against neural tube defects. More recently though, there is some evidence that it may be associated with lower occurrences of other neurodevelopmental disorders. In the current study, researchers used data from a nationwide Norwegian group of > 85,000 children […]

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Preconception Supplementation for Women—three key nutrients to support a healthy pregnancy and fetal development

Posted in Dietary Supplements, Pregnancy on Nov 27th, 2012

Most women tend to think of the time period during their pregnancy and lactation as the area of focus for their nutritional and lifestyle improvement efforts. Increasingly though, practitioners, consumers and patients alike, are realizing that not only does taking care of oneself during the reproductive years affect a healthy pregnancy and offspring, but nutritional […]

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Herbal Supplements during Pregnancy: Do they cause low birth weight?

Posted in Botanicals, Pregnancy on Nov 16th, 2012

Questionnaires were mailed to 8505 women in Canada who were randomly selected from the Quebec Pregnancy Registry. In the end, 3183 were included in the study. Others were returned to sender, or excluded due to missing data or multiple birth pregnancies. This analysis included cases of women who delivered a baby < 2500 g; these […]

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Breastfeeding difficulty and postpartum depression

Posted in Depression, Pregnancy on Oct 11th, 2011

The first two weeks after giving birth appears to be an important time in the association between breastfeeding and postpartum depression. Researchers at the University of North Carolina studied 2,586 women who had breastfed. A history of postpartum major depression score was reported by 223 of them. Women who had disliked breastfeeding in that first […]

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