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It isn’t very common, but many women are concerned about gestational diabetes in pregnancy. In reality, gestational diabetes only affects about 135,000 women, or 4% of pregnancies a year. What is it? Should you be concerned if your doctor or midwife tells you that you have it?
To start, during the second trimester, normally around your [...]
With obesity on the rise in America, including higher numbers of childhood obesity, one way to lower the risk of it in babies is found at home.
Breastfeeding, has long been considered the healthiest option for babies, and has been recently found to reduce the odds of children growing up obese.
While chubby babies are cute a [...]
Do you think that breastfeeding helps raise the occurrence of obesity or lower it? According to the American Academy of Pediatrics breastfeeding actually lowers the risk that your baby will grow into an obese child or obese adult. One of the reasons pediatricians are now recommending that mothers breastfeed for at least the first year [...]
