Pregnancy

Our Pregnancy articles on Healthstatus.com

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Infant And Child Feeding

Research shows that breastfeeding a baby is very important as it helps the child as well as the mother, to be healthier. Research has shown that breast feeding infants exclusively for the first six months, then gradually adding food staples to their diet for the next two or three yrs before completely weaning them off […]

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Facts About Children And Blindness

August is National Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month, “I did not know that” you say? Well now you do, and you can tell your friends and family and spread the news.We as adults can easily tell if we are starting to have difficulties with our vision. We may begin to notice that the words […]

Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding For Child’s Health

Breastfeeding is as natural as childbirth itself, and it’s good for not only the baby but the mother as well. The very term mammal comes from the fact that mammals breast feed from mammary glands. According to The American Academy for Pediatrics, breastfeeding should be done exclusively for the first six months and continued on […]

What Seals And Pigs Have In Common – A New Variant Of Flu Virus Discovered

When 162 New England harbor seals died last year, it was sad. When scientists found that they died from an avian H3N8 influenza A virus, it immediately became a reason for serious concern. This virus is similar to the one already circulating in North American waterfowl, but this new type shows mutations that allow it […]

Tricks For Coping With Menopause

Menopause is natural. If you are a woman, you will have to go through it sooner or later. All it means is that your body is changing to adapt to the life when reproduction is not its main role. That means that our body starts producing much less of our main hormones – estrogen and […]

Cord blood

What is Cord Blood? – Benefits to our community

After the birth of a child and the severing of the umbilical cord, there is still blood that remains in the blood vessels contained within both the placenta and the remains. After leaving the mothers body, the child no longer needs this amount of blood. The blood left over is referred to umbilical cord blood […]

Whooping Cough Epidemics – Where Did That Come From?

The news that Washington State had to declare epidemics of whooping cough alarmed large number of people who thought that at least in the US we are safe from such health threats. Unfortunately, we are much more vulnerable than we think. Similar epidemic occurred in California in 2010, where 9000 people contracted the disease and […]

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Signs of Pregnancy

There is nothing in woman”s life that can be compared with the feeling she experiences when she becomes aware that she is carrying a child. Some women claim that they knew the exact moment they conceived, but that is probably just their imagination. While there are many signs of pregnancy that are common and well […]

When is My Baby Due?

The first question every woman asks when the doctor confirms that she is pregnant is ‘when is my baby due?’ Most doctors have a colorful wheel, or a calculator, which counts 266 days from the moment of conception, or 280 days from your last period. Other doctors will honestly tell you that this calculation is […]

Babies Having Babies

It takes something so drastic like the news about the 10-year-old girl in Colombia recently reported in the media to have given birth via caesarian section to shake us up. We should have paid attention to what has been all around us for quite some time: our children are maturing way too early and little […]