If you are pregnant, you may be suggested to undergo gestational diabetes testing. In most of the cases, it is nothing but a routine health check-up, considered as an integral part of prenatal care. Gestational diabetes testing is done typically during 24th through 28th weeks of pregnancy. Although it is a common experience for all [...]

The best way to understand diabetes during pregnancy is to first understand what non-pregnancy diabetes is.
What Is Diabetes?
Diabetes is a chronic disease characterized by unusually high blood sugar, or glucose, levels and by erratic metabolic function. High blood sugar levels are caused either by low levels of the hormone insulin or by resistance to the [...]

You and your husband are eagerly awaiting the birth of your first child. However, the excitement gives way to pain sometimes, because as the pregnancy goes along you are experiencing more and more back pain during pregnancy. Thus, you need some ideas as to how to feel more comfortable.
Do Not Let Your Back Pain During [...]

High blood pressure and pregnancy is definitely not a good mix. Many doctors will warn their patients to keep a sharp look out for any signs of high blood pressure. Many women who have high blood pressure and pregnancy at the same time give birth to normal babies but some do have complications during gestation. [...]

Pregnancy and childbirth is often thought of as being a miraculous event that makes a pregnant woman’s body undergo a number of changes that are amazing in themselves. But, it also means pregnancy is affected by constipation, which in turn, helps to somewhat reduce and dampen the miraculous nature of the event, and brings the [...]

Pregnancy can be a beautiful thing. But for some people it may not be. It may be a very long nine months of swelling and back pain. Hopefully it is just temporary and nothing to worry about. If you have back pain during your pregnancy, you do not want it to affect your delivery and [...]

The causes of headaches aren’t known with certainty in any case. But given that migraines and tension headaches – by far the most common types – occur much more frequently in women, it’s reasonable to suppose that hormones play a role. Those hormones are undergoing rapid change in a pregnant woman so it shouldn’t be [...]