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  2. Maternal health - Wikipedia

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    Maternal health is the health of people during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period.In most cases, maternal health encompasses the health care dimensions of family planning, preconception, prenatal, and postnatal care in order to ensure a positive and fulfilling experience.

  3. Morning sickness misery? This Red Bank practice found a new ...

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    The company focuses on women who have severe morning sickness, a condition that is seen in 14% of all pregnancies and has left women turning to Google and Reddit chats searching for answers ...

  4. Double burden - Wikipedia

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    This migration of women into the workforce shook the traditional ideology of gender roles, but importantly, it was the catalyst to the double burden becoming noticeable. [6] The 1930s "encouraged women to fulfill what Stalin termed the "great and honorable duty that nature has given" them. [ 6 ]

  5. Hyperemesis gravidarum - Wikipedia

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    Hyperemesis gravidarum tends to occur in the first trimester of pregnancy [17] and lasts significantly longer than morning sickness. While most women will experience near-complete relief of morning sickness symptoms near the beginning of their second trimester, some people with HG will experience severe symptoms until they give birth to their ...

  6. Study finds why morning sickness is more severe for some ...

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    The team said building up a tolerance prior to getting pregnant could prevent sickness. Researchers also said women with the inherited blood disorder thalassemia, which causes higher levels of ...

  7. Scientists discover cause of pregnancy morning sickness ... - AOL

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    Some 70% of women experience nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, and until now, an underlying cause was unknown. Scientists discover cause of pregnancy morning sickness, test cures Skip to main ...

  8. Thalidomide scandal - Wikipedia

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    Feet of a baby born to a mother who had taken thalidomide while pregnant. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the use of thalidomide in 46 countries was prescribed to women who were pregnant or who subsequently became pregnant, and consequently resulted in the "biggest anthropogenic medical disaster ever," with more than 10,000 children born with a range of severe deformities, such as ...

  9. Obstetrics - Wikipedia

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    Hypercoagulability in pregnancy is the propensity of pregnant women to develop thrombosis (blood [40] clots). Pregnancy itself is a factor of hypercoagulability (pregnancy-induced hypercoagulability), as a physiologically adaptive mechanism to prevent post partum bleeding. [41]