All Entries in the "Women's Reproductive Health" Category
What Are The Top 8 Misconceptions About Infertility?
If you are among these couples who are still trying to have a child, what are the top misconceptions that you should not take to heart? Read on to find out
Effects Of Breastfeeding On Menstruation
One of our readers raised a question about trying to have a second baby. She writes about getting married in 2007 and then having a baby girl, and then trying since the beginning of this year to get pregnant. She expresses concern at having had no success to get pregnant [...]
New Morning-After Pill More Effective
The New York Daily News website is calling it Plan C, a morning after pill that claims to be efficacious even 5 days after unprotected sex.
This one as it is claimed offers more protection against unwanted pregnancy than other pills currently on the market.
The reason for more effectiveness is because it works differently: whereas other [...]
Want To Conceive? Try Dusting
We keep hearing about new things everyday that affect women’s health and more particularly reproductive health.
Now it would seem that something as innocuous as house dust could be a culprit.
Flame-retardant chemicals in items like lounge suites, electronics, fabrics, carpets, and plastics cause delays in conception, it was found by scientists in Berkley, University of California.
According [...]
Metrorrhagia – What Is It And Why It Can Happen?
Metrorrhagia is also commonly known as spotting and is the kind of off schedule bleeding that women experience which is not part of their monthly menstrual bleeding (which can range anywhere between a 22 days to 35 days cycle).
Not only is Metrorrhagia extremely inconvenient because the bleeding is irregular and unpredictable, [...]
Causes For Early Miscarriages
Some miscarriages happen so early on in a pregnancy that they may occur before a woman has actually even realized that she is pregnant.
However, those pregnancies that are confirmed and then end in miscarriage, are known as early miscarriages; those which take place between conception and the 13th week of pregnancy, or [...]
Ways To Induce A Miscarriage
There are several reasons, such as issues of privacy, cost, or unavailability of legal adoption methods etc which may propel a woman who has discovered herself to be pregnant to seek one of different ways to induce a miscarriage.
When you talk of ways to induce a miscarriage, the term includes over the [...]
Breastfeeding May Reduce Risk Factors For Diabetes And Heart Disease
According to a new study, breastfeeding may lower long term risk of developing risk factors for diabetes and heart disease in mothers than who bottle-feed.
After following 700 women for 20 years, researchers found that mothers who had breastfed were less likely to develop metabolic syndrome. It is a cluster of risk factors for heart disease [...]
