A new study suggests that women who suffered a miscarriage may be at a higher risk of getting it again if they are obese.
The researchers from St Mary’s Hospital London observed the progress of 696 women who were categorized by the researchers as “unexplained miscarriages”
The researchers stated in a conference in Canada that in obese women the risk of getting miscarriage again was increased by 73%.
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Some of the common problems or complications that may occur during pregnancy are as under.
Abdominal Pain
During pregnancy, abdominal pain can occur because of several causes. More often pregnant women have twinges and tightening feelings in the abdomen as the area begins to expand to hold the growing baby. However, it must not be very painful and a woman can also feel little bit uncomfortable when the baby moves around or kicks.
Back pain
Almost every pregnant woman has to experience back pain during the second or third trimester. Usually, backaches or back pains occur because of the poor posture. This pain can be worse in the women who gain more than the recommended amount of weight. The baby presses your spine and besides weight it’s another cause of the back pain.
Constipation
Most of the women have to experience constipation during pregnancy. Actually, during pregnancy the body begins to absorb more fluids that make stools harder. Similarly, different pregnancy hormones relax the intestinal walls and the stool doesn’t move quickly. In the third trimester, the baby can be the cause to press the intestinal tract and thus, intestinal movement becomes difficult. Constipation can also be a side effect of iron pills that women usually take during pregnancy.
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Washington- If women stop smoking when they are pregnant they are likely to have happy, more easygoing babies, British researchers said on Wednesday.
It was noted that babies of women who didn’t stop smoking while pregnant were significantly cranky. The researchers have the opinion that mothers, who can put in the effort to get away from the smoking habit, show more care for their offspring in other ways.
The researchers also found out that Babies born to non-smoking mothers are also more temperamental when compared to those born to mothers who quit. The researchers suggested that moms who discontinue the habit are doing something special.
It is known that tobacco affects the growth of fetus and also affects children when they inhale secondhand smoke of their mother.
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Children who have developed any kind of ‘Neuro-Developmental Abnormalities (NDA)’ in the womb leading to brain’s disability to grow normally are more prone to fall into some sort of addiction in their later lives. During the first three months of pregnancy which are vital to the normal growth of a child’s brain, if the mother is exposed to starvation and hunger, it has an unfavorable impact on the mental health of the offspring which he carries forward in his adult life too, showing more vulnerability towards addictive behavior.
This has been brought to light by the researchers, from the “Dutch Mental Health Care Organization”, ‘Bouman GGZ’, and ‘Erasmus University’, Rotterdam ,during one of their studies, who studied men and women born in Rotterdam between 1944 and 1947, the time of the Dutch ‘hunger winter‘.
They could observe a startling relation between the adults who had been receiving treatment for their addictive disorders and the history of their mothers who encountered severe food shortages and starvation during their early pregnancy.
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Levels of the ‘Glycemic Control‘ in the blood differ significantly among the pregnant women with ‘Type1 diabetes‘ and the pregnant women who are suffering from ‘Type 2 diabetes‘.
Researchers revealed these results on the completion of the fist study that involved a continuous monitoring throughout the pregnancy to examine changes in glucose levels.
Apparently, there was no observable difference between the two groups of diabetes types. Critical stage of diabetes however brings up these differences. The women suffering from diabetes had normal glucose levels for an average of only half of the time in a day of 12 hours during the critical stage of early pregnancy. This is an alarming situation according to the researchers.
Dr. Helen R. Murphy at Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust in the UK and colleagues collected and analyzed data from continuous glucose monitoring for 7 days during each trimester of pregnancy in 40 women with ‘Type 1 diabetes’ and 17 women with ‘Type 2 diabetes’ during the study period.
The researchers discovered that as the pregnancies advanced, more time was spent with blood glucose in a normal range of 70 mg/dL to140 mg/dL. Women with ‘Type 2 diabetes’ spent nearly one third more time within a normal glucose range in comparison to the women with ‘Type 1 diabetes’.
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