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Up to 15 percent of families struggle with infertility, but there is no single cause behind trouble with conception. Infertility can be caused by anything from ovulation issues to medical issues such as diabetes, obesity, and high blood pressure....
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From an early age, young children tend to be curious about how babies are made and start to ask some big questions. As a parent, it is completely up to us how we handle these moments. The trick to remember is, keep your cool. It is perfectly...
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Pregnancy
Most sexually active women spend the majority of their menstrual cycles trying not to get pregnant. But when it finally comes time to start trying for a baby, it can be hard to know how to optimize your chances of success. When should you have sex?...
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The CDC released its annual “Mortality in the United States” report in December, and it offered some good news for infants. According to the report, the infant mortality rate decreased 2.3 percent in 2014 to a new historic low of 582.1 infant...
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I’ve always been terrified of needles, so you can see why IVF frightened me to my core. I was always the patient who passed out at the lab every time I had to have blood drawn on Day 3 for fertility tests. (Or rather infertility tests). My palms...
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Pregnancy
Whether you are hoping to see two lines on the stick that mean you are pregnant, or if your goal is to see a negative test and know that you are definitely not pregnant, knowing exactly when to take a pregnancy test can be a big deal. For most...
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My partner and I had sex on Jan 1, 2017. We weren’t planning and since it was unprotected i took plan B the the next day. On Jan 9th I went to the hospital for a stomach flu. They do a routine pregnancy test and told me I had Hcg detection in...
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Pregnancy
The most common error with home pregnancy tests is that they are done too early. A pregnancy test detects the presence of human chorionic gonadotropin, or hCG. This hormone is secreted by a fertilized egg and is usually detectable shortly after...
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Pregnancy
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a condition that affects 12-21 percent of all women, depending on the definition used and the population being examined. It can be present when a woman has two main issues: irregular or absent periods, and signs...
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Pregnancy
While most people are familiar with stories of women showing up to the emergency room with abdominal pain who unknowingly are pregnant and give birth moments later, fewer have heard of the phenomenon known as pseudocyesis. This word originated from...
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Pregnancy
This might not be a couple’s first thought immediately after having a baby, but here’s something to think about: it’s possible for some women to conceive again within three weeks of having a baby, even before their first postpartum menstruation....
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Pregnancy
A cancer diagnosis can change everything in your life overnight—including raising questions about having children after cancer. Whether or not you can get pregnant after cancer treatments depends upon a number of factors, including your type of...
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March is National Woman’s History Month in the United States. Congress designated March to be a month where we focused on the contributions of women to our country in 1987, and it remains in effect today. That is why it is so timely to discuss how...
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Pregnancy
Endometriosis can manifest itself in different ways throughout the body. For some women, endometriosis can mean chronic pelvic pain and discomfort. For others, they may not discover they have endometriosis until they try to become pregnant and have...
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Health
During a typical conception, a sperm carrying either an X or Y chromosome fertilizes an egg, which already has an X chromosome. An XY pairing is a boy; an XX chromosome pairing is a girl. Abnormalities in the genes on these or other chromosomes can...
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Toddler
Do you have a picky eater? A child who has a limited variety of food intake because he or she rejects unfamiliar foods? It’s not uncommon for children to go through a “picky phase,” but researchers aren’t clear about exactly how many children...
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Toddler
Each week, join our experts for a 1-hour live chat to discuss everything from conception and pregnancy to babies’ sleeping habits and picky eaters. Each week at the designated time, a Bundoo expert will post that week’s topic of...
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Health
While advanced maternal age has been linked with increased risk for child health problems, researchers are learning more about how paternal age may impact a child. Increasing paternal age has been linked with increased risks for some mental health...
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Pregnancy
Up to 85 percent of women experience occasional nausea and vomiting during pregnancy (usually referred to as “morning sickness”), but hyperemesis gravidarum is an extreme version of this more typical pregnancy symptom. Affecting up to 2 percent of...
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Pregnancy
Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disorder (IBD) that causes inflammation in the digestive tract, typically focusing on the small intestine. This inflammation can lead to chronic diarrhea and, more severely, scarring in the intestines that...
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Pregnancy
When you learn you are expecting, you’re naturally going to have many questions. Besides the gender of your baby, one of the most common is: “When is the baby due?” Assigning a due date gives you something to look forward to and plan for, but this...
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Baby
A new baby’s heart begins to develop as early as week five of pregnancy (3 weeks after conception) when the tube of muscle forms that will someday be the baby’s heart. This first primitive structure doesn’t have any of the...