For women, missing your periods by even a single day is always nerve wrecking, unless you are used to having such irregular cycles. This is because a late period could be a sign of pregnancy for a sexually active woman or a variety of other reasons altogether.What can be even more stressing is carrying out […]
Continue readingYou missed your periods. It is now somehow quite apparent that you are pregnant. You start noticing some increase in weight, nausea in the morning, change of moods and sooner or later, you will visit your doctor and start hearing the words weeks, trimesters and months and that’s when confusions will chip in, leave alone […]
Continue readingMaternal instinct. The impulse to love and care for the child is innate in mothers.A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study, conducted by a group of researchers in Tokyo on a number of mothers, showed different brain patterns as reaction to when their babies cry, smile or laugh. The scan results suggested that particular circuits in […]
Continue readingYou have patiently waited for a whole nine long months, and now you are late in your last trimester. You eagerly (or nervously) wait for any sign so that you know that you are due anytime.In a contrary opinion to what we see in movies and shows (your water breaking and being rushed to the […]
Continue readingUnder normal circumstances, lactation is only associated with those who have been pregnant and delivered at least their first bouncing baby. Naturally, three hormones trigger breast milk production. These are estrogen, placental lactogen and progesterone.During delivery, progesterone and estrogen levels decrease in the body. The reduction of these hormones facilitates the increment in prolactin hormone […]
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