Leaving work to care for a new child can complicate your career. Here's how to avoid common problems. Danger: Turning into Baby Central Neutralizer: Keep kid-centric chatter to a minimum It's natural for you to be excited about a new baby or a...
Approximately 6 million American women become pregnant each year, and more than 10,000 give birth each day. CDC continues to focus on monitoring pregnancy-related deaths and complications, identifying effective prevention strategies, research to improve maternal and child health, and assisting state health departments to improve programs for women and infants.
The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System PRAMS is an ongoing, state- and population-based surveillance system designed to monitor selected self-reported maternal behaviors and experiences that occur before, during, and after pregnancy among women who deliver a live-born infant in 31 states and New York City. PRAMS employs a mixed-mode data...
This paper presents detailed pregnancy rates for 1990-2000, updating a national series of rates extending since 1976. This paper presents pregnancy rates for 1990-2000, by age, race, Hispanic origin, and by marital status. The data in this paper, together with previously published pregnancy rates for earlier years, provide a consistent...
This paper describes strategies for conducting pregnancy-related or maternal mortality surveillance in the United States. This surveillance is an ongoing process of identifying pregnancy-related deaths, reviewing the factors that led to those deaths, analyzing and interpreting the information gathered, and acting on the results so as to reduce such deaths...
This paper presents trends and variations in smoking during pregnancy in the United States. Data are presented for various characteristics including mother's age, race, ethnic origin, place of birth and State of residence, live birth order, and birth weight. The percentage of women who smoked during pregnancy declined every year...
This paper presents detailed pregnancy rates for 1996 and 1997 to update a recently published comprehensive report on pregnancies and pregnancy rates for U.S. women. The teenage pregnancy rate dropped steadily through 1997, falling to a record low of 94.3 pregnancies per 1,000 teenagers 15-19 years, 19 percent below the...
This paper reviews issues related to contraception and pregnancy and will discuss guidelines for care during pregnancy to optimize the health of both the mother and the fetus and infant. The ability to become pregnant and to bear children is uniquely female. With increasing numbers of HIV-infected women, 80% of...
This report from the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracks the effects of changes in sexual activity, marriage patterns, contraceptive use, attitudes and economic and educational opportunities on pregnancies, and pregnancy rates over the past two decades in the United States. Using complete counts...
DEAR ABBY: My 17-year-old niece, "Nicki," was recently diagnosed with an STD. When her mother, my sister-in-law "Cynthia," found out she was horrified. She had ignored several family members -- including me -- who had tried to warn her that Nicki was sexually active and not taking proper precautions. ...
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- Each year, many couples take steps to either prevent or achieve pregnancy; products designed to assist in these endeavors represent a significant and growing market in the U.S. According to a new reproduction management industry report produced by Medtech Insight/Windhover Information, this market will experience an...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Pediatrix Medical Group, Inc. (NYSE:PDX) has acquired Maternal Fetal Diagnostic Center of Atlanta, Inc., a physician group that provides services to women with complicated pregnancies. The practice was founded 18 years ago by Phillip L. Potter, M.D., a sole practitioner who sees patients at...
Throughout our lives, our bodies are changing. As new research shows that men, too, have a biological clock, Jane Feinmann looks at what happens when - and how to roll back the years FERTILITY If you think that men can safely ignore their biological...
If you've got a strong family history of food allergies or allergic asthma, you might want to think twice before munching a handful of nuts when you're pregnant. That's because recent research has found that regular consumption of nut products during pregnancy raises the odds of having a child with...
"Let's get together and do something our parents will disapprove of!" That sentiment has been a staple among groups of giggling teens since, very likely, the Paleolithic Era. Up in Gloucester, Mass., however, it recently seemed that things had gone a bit farther than egging neighborhood cars or smoking in...
A YOUNG mum who claimed that her mother slept with her husband to escape a jail term for drink-driving is pregnant. Fiona Porter, 24, instructed her solicitor John Devane to tell Limerick District Court she had caught her mum Bernadette Garvey sleeping with her husband Hugo....
COST-conscious women are flying to Holland for abortions - because they are cheaper than in Britain. More than 440 women had abortions in the Netherlands in 2007 - 10 times as many as in 2005. And Ireland's Crisis Pregnancy Agency CPA believe...
Kids' health -- from a healthy pregnancy and preventing premature birth through the scrapes and bumps, childhood diseases and beyond is the topic of today's Deseret News/Intermountain Healthcare Hotline. From 10 a.m. to noon, Dr. Peter Lindgren, a pediatrician, and Tracy Karp, neonatal nurse practitioner, will take phoned-in questions. From...
Kids' health -- from a healthy pregnancy and preventing premature birth through the scrapes and bumps, childhood diseases and beyond - - is the topic of Saturday's Deseret News/Intermountain Healthcare Hotline. From 10 a.m. to noon, Dr. Peter Lindgren, a pediatrician, and Tracy Karp, neonatal nurse practitioner, will take phoned-in...
