Pregnancy starts with a successful conception. Take good care of your future baby by having a successful conception through careful planning and by being responsible for conception. The pregnancy with the best possible outcome for mom and baby is the one that took place in the beginning with careful...

Ideally a pregnant woman will have a very healthy and normal pregnancy. As much as that is the hope of all pregnant women, pregnancy complications do occur. Pregnancy problems can be mild or they can be severe, threatening the health and well-being of the unborn baby or the mom-to-be. The complication...

You are holding your home pregnancy test and can’t believe that you are actually seeing double pink lines, a blue plus sign, or the word “pregnant” on your digital test. You have been wishing for this to happen for a while and are happy, excited, nervous, and curious about what lies...

It is never easy to lose a child no matter how it happens. Pregnancy is a time of great hopes and expectations for the future of the child you have just created. Losing that child before you even get to see that child’s face or hold that child in your arms is especially heartbreaking especially...

If a woman is pregnant and she has regular contractions and the cervix dilates before her 37th week of pregnancy, she is said to be in preterm labor. Preterm labor is usually a spontaneous event in which the body starts the process. Occasionally a caregiver (doctor, midwife) will initiate preterm labor...

Many women today expect to receive ultrasounds during pregnancy and eagerly look forward to receiving them so that they can see their unborn baby on the monitor screen, and perhaps to be able to determine the sex of their unborn baby. There are other medical reasons for performing an ultrasound during...

It is always a good idea to have a healthy exercise routine, but just because you are pregnant does not mean that you need to give up on staying healthy. In fact, exercise is very important during these nine months for a variety of reasons. When you are pregnant, you will want to do all that you can...

Pregnancy has got to be the time when the human body changes the most between the changes occurring to the body of the mom-to-be and the tremendous amounts of change that occur to the tiny body within the pregnant body! Bodily changes for the mom-to-be: Bigger is the theme of pregnancy and as your body...

Couples who experience infertility are trying to get pregnant but are experiencing reproductive system impairment situations that prevent them from conceiving a child. Infertility is a common problem facing approximately 6.1 million individuals in the U.S. alone. The diagnosis of infertility is usually...

Exercise keeps you healthy during most of life and pregnancy is no exception. It is safe to exercise throughout your entire pregnancy providing your pregnancy is following a normal course and your doctor has not objected. Exercise can give a pregnant woman many benefits including strengthening and toning...