Pregnancy News

Male abusers sabotage birth control

A new report says that male partners of teenage girls and young women who engage in physical and sexual violence also often try to sabotage the birth control the women are using.

Newborns of smokers have high BP

Babies of women who smoked during pregnancy have blood pressure problems at birth that persisted through the first year of life, a new study finds.

Airbags safe for pregnant women

Airbags save lives in car crashes. But now researchers report that the lifesaving quality makes no exception for pregnant women and the babies they're carrying.

Mozart soothes preemie blues

A study found that listening to Mozart's music for just 30 minutes a day helped premature babies use less energy, which may help them grow faster.

Pregnancy and chewing tobacco

When pregnant Cambodian women suffer morning sickness, they often reach for an unlikely source of relief: a wad of chewing tobacco.

Health dept to probe abortion pill

The ANC in Gauteng called on the health department to probe the peddling of pills used for inducing labour to terminate pregnancy.

Pregnant women take harmful meds

With the help of their doctors, women planning to become pregnant should take an inventory of the medications they take, researchers from Canada advise.

Questions surround maimed baby

Doctors have raised eyebrows on this week’s horror story of a woman whose baby “came apart” during labour.

How long is a full-term birth?

About one-quarter of new mothers isurveyed in a study considered a baby born at 34 to 36 weeks of gestation to be full term, and most considered 37 to 38 weeks full term.

SA women having fewer children

South African women are having fewer children, the SA Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) said.