Other Pregnancy Issues
Pregnancy Issues answers your questions about the changes that occur when you're expecting. Learn how to exercise during pregnancy, nutrition guidelines, preparing for childbirth, and more in this section.
- How Pregnancy Works
During pregnancy, an egg transforms from a tiny mass of cells into a living, breathing baby. Learn how the fetus develops during each trimester of the pregnancy and find out how the baby finally makes its way into the world. - How Prenatal Testing Works During a pregnancy, different kinds of prenatal testing are an important part of the process. Learn how all the different tests protect both mother and child.
- Understanding Psychological Changes during Pregnancy Pregnancy is not always a happy time, even if the baby is wanted and planned. It's normal for parents to experience a wide range of emotions during this period. Learn about emotions that surface during pregnancy.
- What happens when pregnant women smoke? Smoking is dangerous for pregnant women for many reasons -- learn why.
- Anemia or an Iron Deficiency During Pregnancy and Childbirth Iron deficiency anemia--a lack of iron in the blood--occurs in about 20 percent of pregnant women in the United States. Iron is an important nutrient during pregnancy, so it's important that you have an adequate intake.
- Miscarriage Symptoms, Causes and Treatment A miscarriage is the ending of a pregnancy due to the premature delivery of the fetus before the 20th week of pregnancy. At this point, the fetus is not developed enough to survive outside the uterus on its own.
- What is an ectopic pregnancy? When a fertilized egg develops outside the uterus, it's called an ectopic pregnancy The word ectopic means out of place. This is not an uncommon occurrence: One in every 100 to 150 pregnancies is ectopic.
- Cesarean Section The common medical reasons for having a Cesarean section (C section) are a baby in a breech position, a baby in a shoulder-first psotion, too large a head, prolonged labor, placenta blocking the birth canal and fetal distress.
- Hypertension in Pregnant Women Hypertension can adversely affect a fetus by causing constriction of the placental artery. This animation explores the process.
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