A new mom and depressed? These seem like two realities that radically contradict each other. However, given the fact that you have just delivered a child, and are feeling sad and overwhelmed - your feelings are not uncommon, and entirely understandable. While pregnancy has always been seen as a happy time in a woman’s life – a time [...]
3 Attainable Resolutions for the Mom-to-Be 1. Cut the mama drama. Decrease the stress in your life. Stress for anyone, but particularly pregnant women, affects both mother and fetus; it presents with an increased risk of preterm labor/delivery and low birth-weight infants. Stress also contributes to the development of hypertension. Anecdotally, mothers who are under immense stress tend to [...]
Trying to get in the mood to conceive? Consider lighting a few candles, putting on some sensual music… and locking the door to make sure your Uncle Ted doesn’t walk in on you. It’s not ideal, but when ovulation coincides with a family trip or get-together, some couples have sex just feet away from where their [...]
Deck the halls and hark the herald! Well ladies, the holiday season is upon us again. Time for family and friends, shopping and travel, New Year’s resolutions and my personal favorite—cooking and eating. So let’s discuss a few things, from a medical perspective, that will keep you and your precious cargo well and whole for the [...]
If your home has been flooded after a recent hurricane or rain, make sure you take precautions to avoid making yourself sick. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests how to clean up after your home has been flooded: Don't reenter your home unless authorities have told you the structure is safe. Make sure [...]
Diapers can take a big bite out of the family budget, and now a new survey of low-income moms finds that many struggle to afford enough diapers to regularly change their babies. The study, which is published online July 29 and in the August print issue of the journal Pediatrics, found that one in 12 low-income moms [...]
Ectopic pregnancy, in which the fertilized egg grows in the fallopian tubes or other spots outside the uterus, typically leads to miscarriage and can even prove fatal. Now, a review of the data finds that taking a patient's history along with a clinical exam is not enough to diagnose the condition in women with abdominal pain [...]
Dr. Kecia Gaither uses her position as an obstetrician to help those living in at-risk community in Brooklyn. Gaither serves as vice chairman and director of maternal fetal medicine in the department of OB/GYM at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn. She's held the position for three years. At the hospital, she oversees what [...]
Hyperemesis Gravidarum sounds like a Harry Potter spell, but for mom-to-beKate Middleton it’s a royal pain. It’s morning sickness on steroids — a rare and potentially dangerous malady that affects one in 50 women and produces vomiting so severe the patient cannot keep food or liquids down. The Duchess of Cambridge has it so bad she was [...]
EXCESSIVE BODY WEIGHT has become one of the major public health issues in the United States. Obesity is characterized as a state of excess fat-cell mass. The most widely used method to gauge obesity is the body mass index, or BMI (to calculate your BMI, go towww.nhlbisupport.com/bmi). For men and women alike, obesity correlates to an [...]
