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How not to gain too much pregnancy weight

For many women, the extra calories that are vital for a healthy pregnancy often become a green light to indulge and give into cravings. In fact, more than 30 percent of women who have a normal weight before becoming pregnant gain more than the recommended amount during pregnancy, according to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention's Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System.If you're overweight or obese before getting pregnant, or you gain too much weight during pregnancy, you and your baby's health could be compromised.For starters, there's an increased risk of high blood pressure, gestational diabetes and preeclampsia. There's also a greater chance that you could have a miscarriage, a stillborn baby, deliver early or be required to have a cesarean section. Your baby could also develop birth defects and detecting them with an ultrasound can be tricky if you're obese, according to Dr. Alyssa Dweck, a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist and co-author of V is for Vagin...

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  2. Natural Conception Dos and Don'ts

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  4. Cause of port wine birthmarks and rare disorder discovered

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  5. Treating epilepsy while trying to conceive

    In the United States, epilepsy affects nearly one million women of childbearing age."Many women with epilepsy experience seizure exacerbations around the time of the...

  6. Halle Berry's pregnancy: The real deal on fertility in your 40s

    Bombshell Halle Berry dropped a bombshell of her own recently. The 46-year-old actress, the first African American to win a Best Actress Academy Award (for Monster's...

  7. Boost Fertility Naturally

    Getting pregnant isn't always easy. But there are ways to give yourself a boost when you're trying to conceive . Check out some natural alternatives that can enhance your chances of starting a family

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  9. Mississippi Defeats Life at Conception Ballot Initiative

    Mississippi voters Tuesday defeated a ballot initiative that would've declared life begins at conception, a proposal that supporters sought in the Bible Belt state a...

  10. Full Episode: Facing Reality: Choice

    Three women tell their very personal stories about contemplating abortion

  11. High-risk pregnancy

    Science has made it easier for women to start their families later in life, but waiting to have a baby can come with risks. Dr. Manny sits down with an expert to talk about conditions that can put both mother and baby at risk

  12. Indiana Proposal Defines Life as Beginning at Conception

    Indiana women seeking an abortion would be told life begins at conception under a proposal that would give the state one of the furthest-reaching abortion consent la...

  1. Experts devise new embryo selection method to boost IVF success

    British fertility experts have devised a new IVF technique that takes thousands of snapshots of a developing embryo that they say can help doctors pick those most li...

  2. Elisabeth Rohm details struggles of infertility

    Book details actresses' struggle with conception

  3. American woman jailed in UK for forcing daughter, 14, to get pregnant

    An American woman is in a United Kingdom prison after repeatedly forcing her 14-year-old daughter to inseminate herself with donor sperm, because the mother wanted a...

  4. In medical breakthrough, scientists convert human skin cells into embryonic stem cells

    In a major medical breakthrough, researchers at the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) have for the first time ever successfully converted human skin ce...

  5. Dad aims to change views of Down syndrome in new book

    For George Estreich, the decision to write a book about his daughter, Laura, and her diagnosis of Down syndrome came naturally.A college writing professor and former...

  6. Moderate exercise, quicker conception linked

    Among women trying to get pregnant, moderate exercise is tied to more success, according to a new study. However, with exception of overweight and obese women, women...

  7. ND lawmakers define life as starting at conception , in bid to outlaw abortions

    North Dakota lawmakers moved Friday to outlaw abortion in the state by passing a bill defining life as starting at conception. The bill is one of a series of anti-ab...

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