Pregnancy Health

When it comes to finding the right prenatal vitamin, try, try, and try again is our best advice. This is one thing worth getting right. At my first pregnancy checkup, I realized that I’d traded one daily pill for another—only this one didn’t come with the promise of an exciting sex life. Instead, my prenatal vitamin offered an insurance policy for a healthy baby, something … [Read more...] about How to find the perfect prenatal vitamin

Could the calendar date impact your health and that of your newborn baby? A new study, led by the Imperial College London and published in The British Medical Journal, seems to think so. According to the research, laboring moms and their babies experience higher rates of complications when admitted to the hospital over the weekend. The phenomenon, known as the weekend … [Read more...] about Weekend births may pose greater risk to mom, baby

A woman came into my exam room one afternoon, about 33 weeks into her pregnancy and asked to be induced because she was tired of being pregnant. I have had requests from moms wanting to deliver on specific dates (9/9/09, 10/10/0) and requests from grandmothers who are waiting (not very patiently) for the birth of their grandchild. In fact, requests for “social” inductions have … [Read more...] about Should you induce labor?