According to a study conducted by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, women who have diabetes before becoming pregnant are three to four times more likely  to giving birth a baby with at least one birth defect.

This is the first study of its kind that classify a wide range of birth defects that are linked with pre-pregnancy diagnosis of 1 or type2 diabetes, i.e., brain and spine defects, heart defects, oral clefts, limb deficiencies, kidney and gastrointestinal tract defects.

The research has been published in American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Lead Author of the study Dr. Adolfo Correa, who is an epidemiologist at the CDC’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, says in this connection “This growing link between diabetes and a lot of birth defects shows how important it is for the women to receive the best possible preconception care and particularly for those who are found with diabetes.”

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Monday’s subway ride for home included a surprising stop for New Yorker Wendy Brown as she had to stop to help a woman in delivering a baby.

On Monday afternoon when Brown came at the train station, she found a crowd that had gathered around a pregnant woman laying at the floor.

“The first thought occurred in my mind was that she had fallen but soon I found she was getting contractions and was about to deliver a baby” Brown told. Francine Alfontent was with her hubby when she began to labor on the East Broadway stop in Manhattan.

According to the New York Daily News, Max and her wife left their Brooklyn home around 3p.m and rode on the train for Bellevue Hospital. “My wife started feeling pain while traveling so I informed the conductor and the conductor called to the station.” Max told.

After a while, Alfontent gave birth to a 6-pound baby who was named Soleil. Then, she and her baby transported to the hospital. Brown told the New York Daily News that Alfontent was quite overwhelmed after the delivery. “I told Alfontent that she had done a nice job .She was quite thankful and happy” Brown further added.

According to reports Alfontent and her baby are quite healthy and safe in New York’s Bellevue Hospital.

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 It has been published yesterday in the CNN channel that the process of postponement of the pregnancy could cause some sorts of certain incidents in the body of the women. These all kinds of planning and generation development are being done with full of care and investigations from the side of the doctors.

The most common implementation of the delay in pregnancy is that the majority of the women would like to have some reasonable levels of resources and healthy body. The women want to remain as fit as ever. They want to maintain their beautiful and sexy figures so as to get the probable jobs in the world market according to their wishing and desires. This competition has been enhanced at an immense level of the velocity in the United States of America that it has really created the phenomenon of holdup the procession of the pregnancy.
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According to a study in the latest Medical Journal of Australia, teenage moms who smoke during pregnancy their babies are more likely to suffer from low birth weight (LBW) than the moms who don’t smoke.

Associate Professor Elizabeth Sullivan and Denise Chan from the University of New South Wales analyzed the link between smoking in pregnant teenagers and baby birth weight. They discovered though smoking throughout pregnancy increased the risk of LBW, the babies of mothers who gave up smoking 20 weeks before gestation had birth weights almost same to babies born to non-smokers.

LBW is a basic indicator of a newborn’s overall health and also affects childhood development and predisposes children to chronic disease later in life. Decreasing the quantity of cigarettes smoked during pregnancy also affects the risk of LBW in infants. The authors state “Our results suggest that there is further scope to decrease smoking in pregnancy in teenage mothers,”.
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A day ago, it is published in health news by Kathleen Doheny that the pregnancy issue revolves around at the preliminary level of giving a birth to the newly born baby. What would be the exact time to give a birth to a child? When is the true time to have a second baby? It is all that you have to decide first.

During the process of pregnancy, timing factor becomes very important. It is not every day you have to give a birth to a child. As the researchers say that the exact timings of pregnancy could cause less harmful effect on the women and premature baby.
As for the intervals are concerned in the procession of pregnancy, The experts would say whether it is a long break of giving a birth to new child or a short interval, both will be connected to the unpleasing towards the couple and family.

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Under the drive to address the wrong beliefs about “Emergency Contraception”, OBG Management has teamed up with” The Journal of Family” to publish “Emergency Contraception: When and how to use it”. This would be distributed as a supplementary copy to the February 2008 issues of journals like “OBG Management” and “The Journal of Family Practice”.The purpose of issuing this supplement is to increase awareness among the patients about emergency contraception. This would decrease the incidence of unintended pregnancy.

The supplement has been distributed among the clinicians. This would enable them to tackle the subject of emergency contraception more intelligently. They would be able to create awareness as most of the people are misinformed or uninformed about it. So this supplement would also serve as an excellent guide for clinicians to explain about its usage, when to take it and how it works.

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A recent research has provided much insight in to the process of brain development and effects of hormone deficiencies on this process. This research, concluded at the “Karolinska Institutet” revealed that during the stage of early pregnancy, deficiencies of the thyroid hormones could cause “locomotors under-development” in a child. ‘Routine Pregnancy Tests’ there fore must examine this issue in detail, say the researchers.”Hyperthyreosis” is a typical disease found in children who are born with deficiencies of the thyroid hormones. Such children’s are at great risk of ‘locomotors under-development’ and the ‘brain under-development’ if proper treatment at the right time is not given to these children.

Scientists are still exploring in to the exact reasons that are primarily responsible for such impacts of thyroid hormone deficiencies. Scientists are also focusing on to identify the level of attention that is required to be paid to women’s hormone levels when she is pregnant. It is worthwhile to note that all the new born babies in Sweden are necessarily tested for “Hyperthyreosis”. But this is not true with all the women at the same time.

Experiments conducted on mice by the scientists at ‘Karolinska Institutet’ have almost established that the thyroid hormones of both the mother and the child are necessary for complete “locomotors development”. During the period of pregnancy, mother remains as the only source for these thyroid hormones for the baby and any deficiency in this hormone will produce ‘locomotors disorders’ which will pass to the adulthood also. At this stage the problem becomes worse and it goes beyond the range of any treatment also, according to the scientists.

Professor Bjorn Vennstrom, the lead researcher, says, “Hypothyreosis is easy to treat if it’s discovered”. He further advocates and supports the views of many other scientists who feel that more detailed monitoring of pregnant women must be ensured.

The ‘locomotors disorders’ are the results an abnormal development of specific nerve cells in motor cortex and cerebellum. With this perspective, this research study has provided a detailed insight in to the vital role of thyroid hormones which becomes a determining factor for proper brain development.

Gene modified mice were used for this study and mutation in one of two thyroid hormone receptors was monitored for resulting outcomes by the researchers. This means that the patients identified with such mutations of same type of receptor can also be identified for immediate treatment. This is the first ever finding in this regard, according to the scientists.

Scientists have been conducting researches for a long time and now they have come up with sound evidences that the paternal exposure could be making serious impacts on the fetal and post-natal development of the offspring. It is more likely that such imprints will also be reflected in subsequent future generations as well.Until now the maternal exposure to several of the dangerous toxic agents during the period of pregnancy were the prime concerns for experts, scientists, and society at large.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science’ sponsored a multidisciplinary symposium recently. This symposium was focused on the concept of “Father and Fetus”. Scientists in this symposium presented many evidences that the reproductive success and post-natal development processes could be severely affected by the male-mediated influences and this may continue from one generation to another.

Evidences supported by the results obtained from certain specific animal and epidemiological studies demonstrate that paternal exposure to the various types of potentially harmful and hazardous toxins can severely affect the development process of fetus. Such negative impacts could also bring selected but wide spectrum defects and deficits in the offspring’s and there is a strong possibility that such impacts would also be reflected in the future generations as well.

Dr. Gladys Friedler, an emeritus Professor of Psychology at the Boston University School of Medicine highlighted the issue with much concern for all. Organizing a session in the symposium, he specified an urgent need of increasing the awareness levels of everyone about the “significant effect of the male parent in reproductive success and postnatal developments as well as to stimulate research on male-mediated effects”, he says.

Dr. Gladys Friedler, a pioneer researcher, presented a complete review of the researches and studies conducted in this regard and highlighted that all of them indicate clearly that the exposure to the toxins in the form of both the recreational and therapeutic drugs is equally dangerous for a male. Similarly, the exposures at the workplaces and other types of exposure are equally risky in case males as all this could potentially affect and alter the reproductive outcomes.

There are certain impacts on the offspring outcome that have been very specifically reported. Such instances include problems like low birth weight. Growth in childhood cancer cases, Problems related to overall development, behavioral disorders, typical endocrine abnormalities, and some specific cross- generational impacts. Dr. Gladys Friedler is quite hopeful that further research would help in solving these puzzled and complex issues that are directly related to the future generations.