The Pregnancy Blog

Would you like to have a healthy pregnancy? Get tips and techniques to help you stay healthy and feel good for the entire 9 months! read full article

Florida’s Miami-Dade County and BlueCross BlueShield of Florida on Tuesday announced a new low-cost health plan, called Miami-Dade Blue, aimed at helping the estimated 600,000 uninsured county residents, the Miami Herald reports. read more…

Locations include Oakwood Hospital & Medical Center – Dearborn, Oakwood Annapolis Hospital – Wayne, Oakwood Heritage Hospital – Taylor, Oakwood Southshore Medical Center read full article

High Court rules against working women Workers World The plaintiffs and the Communication Workers of America, which represents most of AT&T's workers, had filed sex- and pregnancy-based discrimination charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. AT&T has continued to discriminate for 31 … Supreme Court Rejects Retroactive Application of Pregnancy … Mondaq News Alerts (registration) all 13 news articles

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The joy of being pregnant really starts when you decide that the time is right to have a baby. As you begin to plan and think that this could be it, you actually skip that menstrual cycle, your heart does a little flutter and the hope within begins to grow. Here is what you have to look forward to. read full article…

President Obama on Tuesday in his official announcement of his nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court emphasized what he called her “extraordinary journey” from a modest background to the top of the judiciary, launching a “confirmation battle that he hopes to wage over biography more than ideology,” the New York Times reports. read more…

Healthy pregnancy canadianimmigrant.ca, Canada Women who have recently immigrated to Canada are less likely than Canadian-born mothers to take folic acid supplements before pregnancy, according to a new study. As most expecting Canadian women know, folic acid is vital in preventing birth defects, …

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Sex educators aiming attention at the senior set Philadelphia Inquirer, PA "For younger people growing up now, the issues are pregnancy and a whole range of sexually transmitted diseases. "Unfortunately, we don't really target older people in our educational efforts regarding safe sex." With North Carolina's population over …

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Pregnant women with low levels of vitamin D may be more likely to suffer from bacterial vaginosis (BV) – a common vaginal infection that increases a woman’s risk for preterm delivery, according to a University of Pittsburgh study. Available read more…

Unique perspectives, commentary and information about a unique source of stem cells. Newborn stem cells from umbilical cord blood are saving lives and changing medicine. read more