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Benefits Breastfeed for Mother and Baby
It is giving the milk from mother to baby from the moment of birth through two years of life, preferably. Once you have given birth to the baby, the pituitary gland (hypophysis) begins to increase the amount of production of a hormone called prolactin, which stimulates breast cells. These cells begin to absorb nutrients from the bloodstream and use it to produce milk.
Since this process takes very little time, the first days after birth your breasts produce a fine white fluid, called colostrums. Since milk, colostrums are nutritious and contain antibodies (defenses against diseases that contain the mother). After 3 or 5 days produced milk. Prolactin controls the amount, to the point that the more milk the baby takes, the more prolactin pituitary and produce more milk will be.
When the baby stops sucking, milk production ceases in a week or two. The flow of milk is controlled by the reflection of closure. Otherwise the milk would be leaving continuously from the breast. When the baby sucks the nipples respond by sending sensory impulses to the hypothalamus in the brain. The hypothalamus immediately directed to the pituitary gland to produce hormones (oxytocin) that travel through the bloodstream.
When they get to the breasts, the cell surrounding the socket, where milk is stored, and contract and thus leave the milk duct. The whole process takes 30 to 60 seconds. Once the milk, the reflection of “stop” and “march” is easily triggered. Often the same sound of crying stimulates reflection. However, stress can interfere with the reflection. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Benefits for the mother to breastfeed your baby, Benefits to the child receiving breastfeeding, Importance of milk (colostrums), stimulates breast cells, Tips to give breast milk
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Apr 28th, 2010
Work and Pregnancy
Work and pregnancy, are they compatible?
Most studies hinder the achievement of pregnancy, impair fertility and increase the rates of spontaneous abortion
Recent studies on pregnancy and labor position suggests that about 87% of workers are affected in their fertility because of work to be carried in his usual place of occupation.
Without going any further, Ms. Estíbaliz Sanchez, had to sue his company for not wanting to give the low of pregnancy, thereby forcing her to continue with their normal work, to be carried out in a chamber at 2 degrees of temperature and Pallet conveyor machine, with the consequences at the level of temperature and vibration which may be the baby during the first months of development.
Dr. Victoria Verdú, a gynecologist at the clinic Ginefiv assisted reproductive stresses that more and more frequent consultations which they receive in their center due to an alteration of the gametes, both male and female, simply because be subjected to much more stress than existed previously.
Moreover, the type of job and what it involves, such as chemicals, posture, vibration and even higher sound frequencies, are triggers for that fertility may be impaired and at the time of wanting to conceive, can not be achieved naturally. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: high rates of abortion, impair fertility, infertility, spontaneous abortion, sterility
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Apr 25th, 2010
Surgery to Lose Weight before Pregnancy
New research found that weight loss surgeries like gastric bypass, if performed before pregnancy helps to prevent future complications such as high blood pressure.
Obese women are at greater risk of facing various complications during pregnancy, unlike those that have a good body weight during this period.
This research published in the British Medical Journal, found that those undergoing surgery to lose weight before pregnancy were at 75% less risk for complications during the pregnancy.
Scientists found that almost 1 / 3 of American women of reproductive age are obese, and many options such as gastric bypass surgery are an option really effective.
During the study found that those who had lost weight before pregnancy were better and more quiet this time. However, there is still much to study regarding the status of the mothers who underwent surgery for weight loss before pregnancy and the baby’s health after childbirth.
Not all women have access to such surgery. But if you’re obese or overweight and you’re thinking about getting pregnant, you might want to lose weight before doing so, this will help reduce the possible complications that may arise in pregnancy your body and your baby.
Tags: Childbirth, complications during the pregnancy, high blood pressure, overweight, surgery for weight loss
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Apr 22nd, 2010
Your Weight should Care During pregnancy
It is true that during pregnancy we usually give more taste and a little neglect our food and for obvious reasons, yes or yes we will gain weight. However, women who during pregnancy double their weight, they endanger their health over the next 21 years.
According to a new study by the University of Queensland in Australia, women during pregnancy gained too much weight, and then earn an average of 22kilos in the next 21 years. While those watching their weight during pregnancy, gained around 10kilos over the next 21 years.
The researchers studied the body mass index of 2.055 women before after giving birth for the study.
Thus it was discovered that women who gained too much weight during pregnancy were twice as likely to be overweight later, and up to four times more likely to be obese.
When we are living in an era as beautiful as the pregnancy is real we can not feed properly and missing from our diet any nutrient to avoid risking the health of the baby, but we can not gain weight excessively.
It is best to visit a nutritionist to advise us what we should eat and what foods are best avoided.
Tags: avoid risking the health of the baby, diet any nutrient, gain weight, overweight, weight during pregnancy
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Apr 19th, 2010
Progress in Malaria Vaccine During Pregnancy
A recent study has developed an important step towards the creation of a vaccine against pregnancy-associated malaria. The parasite causes the disease can cause fatal reactions in women during their first month of pregnancy.
With the development of the vaccine will prevent many deaths and problems during pregnancy.
Malaria is a disease caused by a parasite of the genus Plasmodium that is transmitted to people by the bite of a mosquito. When these mosquitoes bite people, the parasite enters the liver where it multiplies rapidly and goes on to infect red blood cells or erythrocytes. Febrile seizures this causes sudden, intense, every two or three days. This process is exhausted, leaving the body in the case of young children is a high probability of fatal without treatment.
That is why malaria causes about 400-900 million cases of fever and approximately 2-3 million deaths annually, the vast majority of cases occur in children under 5 years. The only way to direct infection among humans is that a pregnant woman transmits them by spraying insecticides to the fetus, which is why these women were particularly vulnerable to this disease because the parasite prevents nutrients from the mother pass through the placenta, thus resulting in abortions and premature births. This disease is very worrying, especially in countries with high infant mortality.
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Tags: avoiding the effects on the baby, Malaria Vaccine, premature births, problems during pregnancy, vaccine against pregnancy
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Apr 16th, 2010
Cancer and Fertility
Women of childbearing age who face a cancer know that your reproductive organs are affected, treatment by chemotherapy and radiotherapy can result in disruption of ovarian function resulting in infertility temporarily or permanently.
If you want to have children should consult a fertility specialist before undergoing the treatment.
The big concern for women who are diagnosed with cancer and was intended to become pregnant in the future has led to develop two innovative techniques to increase the chances of pregnancy in these cases:
The extraction and freeze eggs before treatment is started later to undergo in vitro fertilization. There are scientific articles about “Preserving fertility in women with cancer” and “Freezing vs. Vitrification Egg.”
The extraction and freezing of the ovarian tissue before starting treatment and later reimplanted. In relation to auto transplantation of ovarian tissue and subsequent pregnancy are obtaining the following news: “A woman gives birth after ovary transplant complete” and “Pregnancy after breast cancer.”
Tags: cancer, extraction and freeze eggs, extraction and freezing of the ovarian tissue, treatment by chemotherapy and radiotherapy, Women of childbearing age
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Apr 13th, 2010
Anemia During Pregnancy
What is anemia?
Anemia is a shortage of red blood cells or reduced ability of them to carry oxygen or iron.
Pregnancy can cause anemia?
Yes, the relationship between anemia and pregnancy is common, although rarely a serious complication because it is the decrease in hemoglobin mass during the gestational period. This is because at that stage there is a predisposition to the discrepancy between the increase in erythrocyte mass and plasma volume increase, with the added possibility of coexistence with acute blood loss by an obstetric or medical condition.
What effects on pregnancy and the baby?
Because the fetus depends on maternal blood, anemia can cause poor fetal growth, preterm birth or low infant birth weight.
Other consequences for the mother are tiredness and listlessness, which makes the care of her and newborn. In turn, in cases of severe anemia increases the risk of postpartum maternal mortality.
Why does it occur?
During pregnancy three successive stages occur that alter the balance of iron. The first change is positive due to the decrease of menses, during the second begins the expansion of red cell mass (between 20 and 25 weeks gestation), and in the third quarter there is a greater uptake of iron fundamentally part of the fetus after 30 weeks. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: deficiency of vitamin B12, effects on pregnancy and the baby, iron deficiency, shortage of red blood cells, tiredness and listlessness
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Apr 10th, 2010