Pregnancy and Childbirth|Useful articles and advices on pregnancy and childbirth by a professional medical doctor.

Have you been trying to get pregnant? If so, then, knowing the signs of ovulation will help you. These signs will help you predict your ovulation and the days in which you are fertile, thus, improve the odds of conception.

What is ovulation

Ovulation is the phase in a woman’s menstrual cycle wherein an egg is released from the ovary. The egg then travels to the fallopian tube where it will remain there for hours waiting for a sperm to fertilize it. Among the millions of sperms only one will fertilize the egg. If fertilization occurs the egg undergoes Read the rest of this entry »

Breast feeding

Years ago, possibly though you were a child, breastfeeding was not actual popular. Breastfeeding was not encouraged as it is inside todays society. Doctors didn’t fully grasp how important and beneficial it is for a newborn baby. Because of this, and a few other reasons, there were the many new mothers that went directly to feeding with the bottle, most frequently new mothers didn’t even try to breastfeed their new baby. Read the rest of this entry »

Recently, a cashier with a round, pregnant belly raced back into her post later a smoke break and explained into her customer that she was sneaking cigarettes though the baby’s father would not notice. She seemed oblivious over the harm her addiction could be causing the child.

But now there is a new way for mothers to benevolently break the cigarette habit, and it comes at a time if medical experts are finding more alarming reasons for pregnant women toward wean themselves from nicotine and tobacco. Read the rest of this entry »