Pregnancy is not only a monumental event in a woman’s life; it is also a time of changes in physiology and the hormone system that have no parallel in any other phase of life. Every bodily system is…
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A new brain imaging study of a single healthy 38-year-old woman has given neuroscientists an unprecedented view of the profound ways the brain changes during pregnancy. Among other things, the…
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About one in ten women experience depression during pregnancy or shortly after giving birth. This is among the most common complications related to pregnancy, and is generally treatable if recognized…
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Research has demonstrated that a high-fat, low-fiber diet (common in the U.S.) causes an imbalance in the gut microbiome—the community of trillions of bacteria, good and bad, that line the walls of…
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A new study of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic upon pregnant women, focusing on developmental outcomes in their offspring 6 months after birth, has reached some surprising, if provisional,…
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