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A rejection hotline is a phone number which delivers a pre-recorded message telling the caller that the caller is rejected by the person who gave the caller that number. This project was set up as a practical joke by Jeff Goldblatt in 2001. [ 1] Goldblatt says that after observing an awkward situation where a man approached a pretty woman and ...
Immune tolerance in pregnancy or maternal immune tolerance is the immune tolerance shown towards the fetus and placenta during pregnancy. This tolerance counters the immune response that would normally result in the rejection of something foreign in the body, as can happen in cases of spontaneous abortion. [1][2] It is studied within the field ...
Reproductive coercion (also called coerced reproduction, reproductive control or reproductive abuse) is a collection of behaviors that interfere with decision-making related to reproductive health. [1] These behaviors are meant to maintain power and control related to reproductive health by a current, former, or hopeful intimate or romantic ...
Researchers followed a 38-year-old woman three weeks before conception, and two years postpartum, tracking the changes to her brain via a series of 26 MRI scans. ... By the ninth week of pregnancy ...
In Florida, a 15-week pregnant woman leaked amniotic fluid for an hour in Broward Health Coral Springs' emergency wait room, according to federal documents. An ultrasound revealed the patient had ...
Hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDN) is a condition where the passage of maternal antibodies results in the hemolysis of fetal/neonatal red cells. The antibodies can be naturally occurring such as anti-A, and anti-B, or immune antibodies developed following a sensitizing event. [11] Isoimmunization occurs when the maternal immune ...
However, the symptoms returned three weeks later and were much more severe, impacting her vision and causing worse headaches. Jelley went back to her doctor before being sent to St. Mary's ...
Some degree of weight gain is expected during pregnancy. The enlarging uterus, growing fetus, placenta, amniotic fluid, normal increase in body fat, and increase in water retention all contribute weight gain during pregnancy. The amount of weight gain can vary from 5 pounds (2.3 kg) to over 100 pounds (45 kg).