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The Best Sex Toys for Parents — For Pregnancy, Postpartum & Beyond

Parenting changes everything — including sex. While almost everyone experiences frequent shifts in their sexuality and libido over their lifetime, with parenting there are just more…complexities. Pregnancy and childbirth for gestational parents can really disrupt how you feel in your body (and if you aren’t aware of what it can do to your clitoris, well: […]

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Polyamorous families face stigma during pregnancy and birth

Polyamorous families experience marginalization during pregnancy and birth, but with open, nonjudgmental attitudes from health care providers and changes to hospital policies, this can be reduced, found new research in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). An estimated 1 in 5 single Americans have engaged in consensual polyamory, or consensual nonmonogamy, and interest in these types […]

Health Problems

Stress during pregnancy may affect baby’s sex, risk of preterm birth

It’s becoming well established that maternal stress during pregnancy can affect fetal and child development as well as birth outcomes, and a new study from researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and NewYork-Presbyterian now identifies the types of physical and psychological stress that may matter most. The study was published online […]

Kids Health

Demi Moore's Reasoning Behind THAT Nude Pregnancy Shoot

Seasons change, fashions go out of style, but there’s one image that will forever remain iconic: Demi Moore’s 1991 nude Vanity Fair cover photo. You probably know the one. In it, Moore wraps an arm around her breasts, pregnant belly and rear exposed, as she holds her head up high; her pixie cut, allowing everyone […]

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USPSTF urges asymptomatic bacteriuria screening in pregnancy

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends using a urine culture to screen pregnant persons for asymptomatic bacteriuria (Grade B recommendation) but does not recommend screening nonpregnant adults. These findings form the basis of a final recommendation statement published in the Sept. 24 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Jillian T. […]

Personal Health

Medical Cannabis is pregnancy possible?

The Weed growing is mothers definitely discouraged. But what if a woman with a medically justified Cannabis medication is pregnant? The Pharmaceutical newspaper has asked the professional Association of women doctors. "Scientific studies on the use of medical Cannabis in pregnancy and the long-term effects of this treatment on the child exist nicht", the Association […]

Personal Health

Charité researchers: Paracetamol in pregnancy safe

Gonna take the end of mothers in the last trimester of pregnancy, Paracetamol, was that unlike many other pain medications, no adverse effect on the circulatory system of your unborn child. The investigation of the Embryotox Institute at the Charité hospital in Berlin showed. In the case of unborn children, the circulation of the blood […]