Who is important in your pregnancy?
There is an accumulation of recent hard data leading to the conclusion that our health is to a great extent shaped in the womb.
All of them belong to the new framework of ‘Primal Health Research’: they explore correlations between what happens during the ‘primal period’ and what will happen later on in life in terms of health and behaviour. The primal period includes fetal life, the period surrounding birth and the year following birth.
Such data are compiled in the Primal Health Research Data Bank (http://www.primalhealthresearch.com/). This database contains hundreds of references and abstracts of studies published in authoritative medical or scientific journals.
Maternal emotional states and prenatal care
At a time when we are learning that our health is to a great extent shaped in the womb, nothing is more important than to study the factors that can influence fetal growth and fetal development. Among these factors we must look in particular at the emotional states of pregnant woman.
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Have you been told you are expecting a big baby?
"You may have been advised that it would be best for you and your baby if you are induced early? or perhaps an elective C-Section has been advised.
You might have been told that you baby is much more likely to get stuck (also known as "shoulder dystocia"), but does the research agree?
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By John Bingham
Last Updated: 3:09PM BST 30/06/2008
Women who eat a diet of junk food while pregnant could condemn their unborn children to obesity, high cholesterol and diabetes in adult life, scientists have found.
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"Caffeine and fetal growth restriction"
Research published in the British Medical Journal on Maternal caffeine intake during pregnancy and risk of fetal growth restriction concluded:
"Caffeine consumption during pregnancy was associated with an increased risk of fetal growth restriction and this association continued throughout pregnancy.
Sensible advice would be to reduce caffeine intake before conception and throughout pregnancy."
Published 3 Nov 2008, doi: 10.1136/ bmj.a2332
Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a2332
Towards a new generation of research in eclampsia
Eclampsia is a main component of maternal mortality, accounting for about 50,000 deaths a year worldwide.(1) Its prevalence varies widely according to standards of living. It is as high as 9% in Bangladesh,(2) while it is in the region of 1 in 3 000 in wealthy countries, where the rates of pre-eclampsia can be as low as 0.4%.(3) Let us recall that eclampsia is characterized by convulsions, while the diagnosis of pre-eclampsia is not based on specific symptoms, but on the association of de novo hypertension after midgestation (blood pressure >140 mm Hg systolic and/or >90 diastolic) and new-onset proteinuria (urinary excretion>0.3 g/d).
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