A review of factors that can affect and maternal and child health outcomes during the Pregnancy Pathway.
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Outlining DTP’s goals in 2011: Helping women be healthy during the childbearing period, and adding to the effort to assure Safe Motherhood around the globe.
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Today is a day for bloggers to raise awareness of the growing rate of prematurity in the U.S. As a pre/postnatal fitness specialist who has been working in the field for more than 30 years, I have a number of thoughts on this topic. I like to start thinking about this problem by thinking back [...]
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Basic information on fetal programming, including behavior and environmental factors that influence fetal development.
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Thanks to moms and reminders on how to get more information on having a healthy pregnancy, birth and recovery.
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Thank you for your patience while our new website was going up. Also, thanks to those who viewed the site! If you are interested in more research; in taking a class in the U.S. or parts of Europe, South America or South Africa; or, in teaching pre/postnatal fitness, please pop over to the renovated website: [...]
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Learn the risks that can endanger your pregnancy.
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Time for an entre: Pregnancy!! Up for discussion… Let’s start at the beginning…in the first trimester you feel sick and tired, right? Three things: 1) your immune system is pro-inflammatory (causing nausea and fatigue), 2) your body is protecting your fetus from some toxins (if you eat something not so great for the fetus, you [...]
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The life-time health status of mothers-to-be and their offspring begins before pregnancy. Exercise, healthy nutrition, and an uncompromised immune system are critical factors in this equation.
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