Yesterday it was reported that a woman gave birth to a baby on board an Alitalia flight from Milan to Paris. According to reports, the plane “landed in time for a medical team to board the flight and help deliver the baby boy…all in front of other cheering passengers on the plane.” In-flight labors actually happen [...]
During our years in practice, we’ve seen an increasing number of patients who visit their doctor for preconceptional counseling. During this visit, your doctor can recommend a prenatal vitamin, explain the timing of intercourse to maximize fertility, review your medical problems, take a family history, and perform a basic physical exam and tests. More [...]
It was recently reported that the interest in using nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, in the delivery room might be growing. With only two hospitals in the U.S. offering it and the expectation of more to come as early as this summer, we wanted to comment on it. We understand and see a lot of [...]
(Reuters Health) – A new study from Bangladesh has experts concluding that most of the world’s women don’t need vitamin A supplements. In the developing Asian nation, giving vitamin A supplements to pregnant women in the rural north didn’t cut down on their chance of pregnancy-related death, or on infant deaths, according to a new [...]
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