Pregnancy

Just as situations of maternal stress or depression have negative effects on the unborn child, communicating with the baby in pregnancy is very beneficial for their emotional development.

When the couple finds out that they are expecting a baby, along with happiness comes some concern about the risk of miscarriage that exists in the first weeks of pregnancy.

There are many parents who make their babies listen to music from pregnancy, either through the belly or through intravaginal devices, but can the baby listen to music inside the uterus, from when, how does he perceive it?

During pregnancy, it is common for women to have some kind of craving, which can range from something very normal, such as ice cream or chocolate, to rather strange cravings, such as foods that they did not like before or that are not usually eaten together.

Molar pregnancy occurs in one in every 1,500 pregnant women and is the result of an abnormal fertilization of the ovum that produces a deformed growth of the placenta. The cause is a series of chromosomal abnormalities that prevent the embryo from developing properly.

Although during pregnancy the mother can consume practically the same as in her usual diet (with the exception of some foods), something that is known to be avoided completely in pregnancy, and even since she is planning to have a baby, is alcohol.

Within the entire universe of tests and analytics that women must do throughout their pregnancy, there is one that is usually ordered under certain particular cases: we are talking about the Non-Invasive Prenatal Test, a blood test that allows detecting the most frequent chromosomal abnormalities that occur during conception and / or pregnancy, without the need to undergo an invasive test such as amniocentesis.

It is not the first time nor unfortunately it will be the last that experts insist on the importance of avoiding tobacco during pregnancy as it is associated with problems for the baby. Well, a new study carried out by the Barcelona Institute of Global Health (ISGlobal), in collaboration with Emory University, Atlanta (United States), reinforces the idea by finding an association between maternal smoking, placental DNA methylation and a worse labor outcome.