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Pre-Natal Checkups and Vaccination
Infectious diseases may complicate pregnancy. It has been well publicized that an attack of German measles up to the ninth or tenth week of pregnancy may produce serious congenital malformations of the baby. If a pregnant woman has German measles … Continue reading
Tests for Pregnancy Diagnosis
At the present time there are four criteria for the presence of pregnancy. The first criterion is a positive reaction to a biological test for pregnancy. Pregnancy Tests Hormonal products of conception, present in the urine of pregnant women, have … Continue reading
Factors that may or may not be a Sign of Pregnancy
Nausea and Vomiting Nausea and vomiting appear in most pregnancies during the first three months. The nausea subsides after the third missed period. Women should complain about this nausea to their physicians, who can assure them that it is related … Continue reading
Group B Streptococcal (GBS) Disease and its Prevention in Newborns
All women should be screened for colonization with GBS from the vagina and rectum at 35 to 37 weeks gestation. A swab from the vagina and rectum is sent to the laboratory for culture. The only exceptions to this are … Continue reading
Baby Delivery and Hospital Procedures
What is in store for the pregnant woman on the verge of childbirth when she arrives at the hospital? Usually she is escorted to her room and is given a complete shave and an enema. The latter makes her more … Continue reading
Labor and Delivery
As Labor Nears As pregnancy nears its end, there is natural concern about getting to the hospital in time and recognizing the signs of imminent events. During the final weeks of pregnancy (thirty-eighth to fortieth weeks) there is frequently no … Continue reading
Planning Pregnancy
The technological ability to control your fertility gives you choices not available when your parents were born. The loosening of social restrictions in the areas of marriage and parenting also affords single men and women the opportunity to become parents. … Continue reading
Pregnancy and Pain Relief during Child Birth
Most women are anxious at times to know if they are pregnant. Difficulties of confirming pregnancy vary greatly from one patient to another. Some women walk into a doctor’s office and announce that they are pregnant. The evidence to them … Continue reading
Exlaination of Rh Factor in Pregnancy
Erythroblastosis is a disease of newborn infants associated with the Rh blood factor. A blood factor is a physical substance which some people have in their blood and some do not. If a blood factor gets into the blood of … Continue reading
Delivery of Premature Infants
Several decades ago, some experts proposed that elimination of the stresses of labor by delivering all preterm babies by cesarean would increase the newborn survival rate. The rationale was that reduced stress on the infant’s head would reduce the possibility … Continue reading