Hurrah! We have power at last…a week after hurricane Irene romped through, we have juice! Thanks for bearing with us while we camped out. So let’s get on with the topic of How to Get Pregnant, starting with why do we need to know this? In the past few decades, the average age for a [...]
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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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Now that you know WHY exercise is a healthy behavior, this entry explains WHAT is safe and effective exercise to do.
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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 effect of environment as a precondition for pregnancy.
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