What Every Mother Needs to Know About Hypertension During and After Pregnancy
Overview Many changes during pregnancy affect your cardiovascular system, which includes your heart and blood vessels. While…
Navigating Gestational Diabetes from Testing to Treatment
Overview Gestational diabetes is one of the most common conditions during pregnancy. In the United States, it…
Pregnancy Over Age 35 (Advanced Maternal Age)
Overview From a biological standpoint, there is a limited window for getting pregnant from reproductive age until…
Placenta Variations and Abnormalities
Overview The placenta is an organ with a highly specialized purpose, and that is to support the…
Pregnancy Loss
Overview Erica McAfee, a grief specialist and doula, who really puts grief and loss and recovery into…
Miscarriage
Overview Miscarriage is a term for a pregnancy loss within 20 weeks. Rates of miscarriage are confusing,…
Short Cervix, Incompetent Cervix, and Cerclage
Overview Your cervix is the lower part of your uterus that opens to your vagina. The length…
Short Height and Carrying a Baby to Term
Overview People love to tell you what you can and cannot do when you are pregnant. People…
Ectopic Pregnancy
Overview When you get pregnant, the egg is fertilized and then should implant in the uterus lining,…
Pregnancy Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Overview Carpal tunnel syndrome during pregnancy results from edema, which is the buildup of fluid in your…
Numbness
Overview It is never a bad idea to bring up any questionable symptoms you experience during your…
Placental Lake
Overview We have become so addicted to ultrasounds, and we can get so much information from an…
PUPPS
Overview PUPPS is the most common skin condition in pregnancy and stands for pruritic urticarial papules and…
Heart Shaped Uterus (Bicornuate Uterus)
Overview A uterus is usually pear-shaped and is in a straight vertical position. Many different abnormalities can…
Choroid Plexus Cysts
Overview The choroid plexus is a tissue in your baby’s brain that produces cerebrospinal fluid, which surrounds…
Itchy Palms & Obstetric Cholestasis
Overview Obstetric cholestasis is a rare complication during pregnancy caused by a reduced flow of bile down…
Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction (Pelvic Girdle Pain)
Overview During pregnancy, the hormone relaxin causes your ligaments to relax and become loose. This is helpful…
Anterior Placenta
Overview Ideally, your baby is head down and facing your spine when you go into labor. The…
Nuchal Hand & Compound Presentations
Overview A nuchal hand is one of several compound presentations where an extremity is alongside the presenting…
Placenta Previa
Overview The placenta grows wherever the embryo implants itself in the uterus. In the majority of pregnancies,…
Single Umbilical Artery
Overview The umbilical cord has one vein, which carries oxygenated blood from the placenta to your baby,…
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