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The Doctor Is In
Especially for a first-timer, early pregnancy can be disorienting, and even the most thorough and caring doctor is bound to overlook some of your concerns. To help, we’ve come up with answers to some...
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Pregnancy in your 20s, 30s &40s
Carol Vaghar had a typical new-mom experience when she gave birth to her first child 15 years ago at age 28. “During my pregnancy, I’d met a crowd of other first-time mothers,” says the Newton, Mass.,...
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Older Parenthood
I walked my 5th grader to her classroom on the first day of school this week. As I looked around at the other parents, I recognized once again that I’m one of the older mothers in the hall. I was 39...
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Your Guide to Urinary Incontinence After Childbirth
Not long ago, I was bouncing with my 3-year-old twin boys in one of those street fair blow-up castles when—oops!—I felt a bit of urine spurt out. It happens a few times a year, typically during a...
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Does Age Really Matter?
Ask several women what they think is the ideal age for pregnancy, and you’ll get wildly different answers. Those who give birth in their early 20s benefit from seemingly boundless energy and...
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Your One and Only
Like most parents, my husband and I always tried to make perfect choices, from the seemingly small (the perfect diaper pail) to the potentially life-changing (deciding how many kids to have). The...
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Bittersweet
Besides being an “older” mom, Cecilia Paetsch had no risk factors for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM, or high blood sugar during pregnancy). “i thought it was really only a concern for obese women,...
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Medically Speaking
More Intense First-Trimester Medical Care While the average mom- to-be doesn’t undergo her first ultrasound until 12 weeks, followed by a second (and often final) scan at 20 weeks, an ART patient often...
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Week 6: Am I Pregnant, Or Just Sick?
My partner James and I have been together for two years, and since close to the beginning of our relationship, we discussed the possibility of having a child if things worked out well with us. I don’t...
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Week 8: It Doesn't Seem Real That I'm Pregnant
Already I find myself 8 weeks pregnant. I’m 38 years old, so time seems to fly by faster and faster as I age. Normally, I wish for the world to just s-l-o-w d-o-w-n some. But since the day I found out...
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Week 12: Hearing Baby's Heartbeat
Last week, at 11 weeks pregnant, I had my first prenatal appointment with a fantastic midwife, Penni Harmon, C.N.M., at Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU) Hospital in Portland. James and I...
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12 Things That Made Pregnancy Better in 2015
It feels like things just get better and better for pregnant women. From women successfully having healthy babies later in life to better parental leave finally being discussed in the United States, we...
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Pregnancy Over 40 Increases Risk for Stroke and Heart Attack
The growing availability of fertility treatments means that women can get pregnant as their natural biological clock is winding down. But pregnancy at a later age can come with increased risks for...
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