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Reading in the Womb: Your Baby is Listening

What do you know about pregnancy?

So you've read a lot of good pregnancy books and you think you've got it all under control. Maybe you've had a baby already and known your way around a birthing room. Here is a fun quiz to test your knowledge of pregnancy and birth. How well do you score? Am I Pregnant? Quiz Is it twins...

Two Antibiotics Linked to Birth Defects

There are two antibiotics, commonly used to treat urinary tract infections (UTI) in pregnancy, sulfa drugs (brand names including Bactrim) and urinary germicides called nitrofurantoins (brand names including Furadantin and Macrobid), have been linked to some forms of birth defects including anenc...

Inexpensive Preterm Labor Teaching Tools

If you haven't heard yet, November is National Prematurity Awareness Month. Recently it was shown that the US ranks 30th in infant mortality, mainly due to preterm births. So in honor of this month of remembrance, I've found some tools for you to use in your personal life, in classes or just ...

Thanksgiving Baby Announcements

Are you planning to share the big news of your pregnancy at Thanksgiving this coming month? Well here are some special ideas for sharing the good news on either of these holidays. Or perhaps you're not yet pregnant and looking ahead for generic ideas on announcing your pregnancy. If so, we've...

Thanksgiving & Christmas Baby Announcements

Are you planning to share the big news of your pregnancy at Thanksgiving this coming weekend? Well here are some special ideas for sharing the good news on either of these holidays. Or perhaps you're not yet pregnant and looking ahead for generic ideas on announcing your pregnancy. If so, we'...