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Feeding Your Toddler(1 to 2 Year Old): Foods To Avoid & Nutrition Tips At this age, toddlers are transitioning from the foods and eating habits they had as infants toward a diet more like your own. Your job is to keep broadening your child’s palate by introducing new flavors and textures. Food preferences are established …
Inducing Labor: When and How Labor Is Induced It’s common for many women, especially first-time mothers, to watch their baby’s due date come and go without so much as a contraction. The farther away from the expected delivery date (called the EDD) you get, the more anxious you may become. You may start to feel …
Miscarriages Losing a pregnancy can be heartbreaking. And for many expectant couples, the fear of having a miscarriage can be consuming, even edging out the excitement about being pregnant. Unfortunately, miscarriages are fairly common. On average, one in five pregnancies will end in a miscarriage – and some research shows that there are up to …
10 Surprising Changes During Pregnancy Pregnancy is a subject that generates a lot of paper. Bookstores and libraries devote not just shelves but entire aisles to it. At your first prenatal visit, your doctor will likely load you down with armfuls of pamphlets that cover every test and trimester. But despite all this information, pregnancy …
C-Section (Cesarean Section): Procedure, Risks, And Recovery Every pregnant woman hopes for a short labor and delivery with no complications — manageable contractions, some pushing, then a beautiful baby — but it doesn’t always work out that way. These days, almost 30% of all babies in the United States are delivered via cesarean section (C-section). …
