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List of Relaxation
and Stress references
Stress and maternal-fetal attachment of
pregnant women during their third trimester.
The Effect of Relaxation Therapy on Preterm
Labor Outcomes.
Murine stress-triggered abortion is mediated
by increase of CD8+ TNF-alpha+ decidual cells via substance P.
Stress and immune mediators in miscarriage.
Pain Relief is Mind over Matter
Pregnancy
Stress Linked to Child's blood Pressure
Working While Pregnant May Up Risk of Pre-Eclampsia
Deep Breathing
Aromatherapy and Pregnancy
Anxiety during pregnancy linked to behavioural
problems in children
The effect of psychosocial variables during pregnancy on birth weight and
gestational age of the newborn
Org of Teratology Information
Services
FDA proposes new rules
National Women's
Health Alliance
Low dose better (then isn't none best?)
Epidural Disturbs
Newborns
Low Dose Epidurals Reduce Interventions
Postpartum Headaches and Epidurals
Postnatal Depression, Eating, Exercise, and Vomiting
Before and During
Pregnancy
Morphometric and neurodevelopmental outcome at age five years of the
offspring of women who continued to exercise regularly throughout
pregnancy.
Just the facts.(for the pregnant woman)
Effect of pelvic muscle exercise on transient incontinence during
pregnancy and after birth.
Prenatal Exercise Creates
Healthier Babies
Pregnancy outcome: physical activities inside versus outside the
workplace.
Recreational exercise and occupational activity during pregnancy and
birth weight: a case-control study.
Exercise in pregnancy: physiological basis of exercise prescription
for the pregnant woman.
The one-year morphometric and neurodevelopmental outcome of the
offspring of women who continued to exercise regularly throughout
pregnancy.
Aerobic exercise during pregnancy reverts maternal insulin resistance
in rats.
Beginning regular exercise in early pregnancy: effect on fetoplacental
growth.
AUGS: Risks for Urinary Incontinence after Vaginal Birth
Exercise May Help Prevent Pre-Eclampsia
(also in Hypertension 2003;41:1273-1280)
Why
Kegel After Giving Birth?
Practical Guide to
Exercise During Pregnancy -
www.fitfor2.com
Diet - General Pregnancy Nutrition
Pregnancy and the Use of Nutritional Supplements. (Women's Health
Update).
Safety of Iron in
Food and Supplements
FDA
Warning Against Mercury-Containing Fish for Pregnant Mothers
Food for thought: how choline endows the infant brain.
Just the facts.(for the pregnant woman)
James Balch, MD and Phyllis Balch, CNC. Prescription for
Nutritional Healing. Avery Publishing Group, 1997.
Marian Burros. "Study Finds Far Less Pesticide Residue on
Organic Produce." The New York Times. May 8, 2002.
"Carcinogens -- At 10,000,000 Times FDA Limits" Options May
2000. Published by People Against Cancer, 515-972-4444.
Karen Collins, R.D. "The phantom fat: Despite health dangers,
trans fats not listed on food labels." MSNBC May 8, 2002
Intakes of essential n-6 and n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids among pregnant
Canadian women
Gayla Kirschmann and John Kirschman. Nutrition Almanac.
4th Ed. McGraw-Hill, 1996.
"Organic Veg Given Health Boost."
BBC News, 13 March, 2002.
Aviva Romm. The Natural Pregnancy Book. The Crossing
Press, 1997.
Senate Document 264, 74th Congress, 2nd Session, 1936 (Quoted
in Reader’s Digest, March 1936).
Jennifer Warren. "Streams Contaminated with Drugs." WebMD News. March 13, 2002.
Good Fats vs. Bad fats
Prominent
Researcher Apologizes for Pushing Fluoride
Iron Supplements or Iron-Rich Foods?
B-12
Essential for Vegetarian Mothers
EPA indoor air quality site
www.epa.gov/iaq/index.html
Dietitians say a well-planned vegetarian diet is OK starting at infancy
Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy. ("initial
treatment should include ...dietary changes")
Vitamin B6 therapy during childbearing years: cause for caution?
American Academy of Dermatology Study Shows Vitamins Play an Important
Role in The Prevention and Treatment of Skin Conditions.
Stretchy subject. (Alternative Paths).(caring for stretch marks)
Iron Supplements May Help Fatigued Women
Severely reduced presence of tissue macrophages in the
basal plate of pre-eclamptic placentae.
(In other studies, including the next one,
glyconutrients have been proven to increase macrophage activity)
Effects of a glyconutrient on macrophage functions.
(If I have my information straight, this study actually used
a supplement product you can order - ask me about where to
find it.)
Chlorophyll-Rich Foods and Wheat Germ: Preventing Neonatal
Intracranial Hemorrhage, Spontaneous Abortion and Miscarriage in
At-Risk Women. (Medicinal Properties in Whole Foods).(Brief Article)
Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine: Pain
Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine: Cerebral Palsy
Bruce N. Ames, et al., "High Dose Vitamin
Therapy...Relevance to Disease and Polymorphisms." American Journal
of Clinical Nutrition, 4/02.
Thomas Brewer, MD. Metabolic Toxemia of Late Pregnancy.
Keats Publishing, Inc., 1982.
Kathleen M. Fairfield, MD, DrPH, and Robert H. Fletcher, MD,
MSc. "Vitamins for Chronic Disease Prevention, Clinical Review," "...Scientific
Review." JAMA, 6/19/02.
Essential Fatty Acids May
Prevent Prematurity
Martha Kerr, "Vitamin C deficiency may contribute to
preeclampsia." Reuters Health 2002-06-11 15:01:25 -0400 via
www.4woman.org
"Subclinical vitamin A deficiency linked to pregnancy
complications." 2002-07-23 16:10:15 -0400 (Reuters Health) via
www.4woman.org
"Very low vitamin C levels linked to preterm birth." Reuters
Health. 2002-01-21 (via
www.4woman.org )
Maternal consumption of Coffee During Pregnancy and Stillbirth and Infant Death
in the First Year of Life
Air Pollution Causes Birth
Defects
Drinking in Early Pregnancy
EPA to Assess Pesticide
Risks
Smoking Causes Diabetic
Children
Tap Water Linked to Birth
Defects
Toxic Landfills May
Raise Birth Defects
US Urged to Put Warning Labels on Teflon Pans
Perfume, Cosmetics may cause birth defects
Impact
of Air Pollution of Reproductive Health
Prenatal
smoking may affect newborn's behavior
http://www.4woman.org/nwhic/News/2003/03june3-1.htm
(SOURCE: Pediatrics
2003;111:1318-1323.)
Dangers of
Fragrances & Other Household Substances
Undernutrition during the first half of gestation increases the predominance of
fetal tissue in late-gestation ovine placentomes.
(This study helps show why an undernourished mother would be more likely to have
placenta previa if she had a low-lying placenta)
Mother's High-Fat Diet
Damages Child
Mom's Pregnancy Diet
Linked to Child's Blood Pressure
Vitamin E isoforms alpha-tocotrienol and gamma-tocopherol prevent cerebral
infarction in mice
The carbohydrate deposits detected by histochemical
methods in the molecular layer of the dentate gyrus in the hippocampal formation
of patients with schizophrenia, Down's syndrome and dementia, and aged person.
Carbohydrate and peptide structure of the alpha- and
beta-subunits of human chorionic gonadotropin from normal and aberrant pregnancy
and choriocarcinoma.
A lipid associated with the antiphospholipid syndrome
regulates endosome structure and function.
Anti-beta2-glycoprotein I antibodies in women with
recurrent spontaneous abortion, unexplained fetal death, and antiphospholipid
syndrome.
Targeted mutation in beta1,4-galactosyltransferase leads
to pituitary insufficiency and neonatal lethality.
(They forced a mutation of a single galactose-containing enzyme which caused 90%
of the mice to die in the neonatal period)
Meaning and therapeutic potential of microbial recognition
of host glycoconjugates.
Lectin histochemistry
in the human placenta of pregnancies
complicated by intrauterine growth retardation based on absent or reversed
diastolic flow.
Studies of mannose metabolism and effects of long-term
mannose ingestion in the mouse.
Not to be ignored: reappraisal of papular and pruritic eruptions of pregnancy.
(Special report: gender-specific dermatology).
Structural characterization of human and bovine lung
surfactant protein D.
Selective deficiency of alpha-dystroglycan in
Fukuyama-type congenital muscular dystrophy.
Light
Lifts Pregnancy Depression
Herbal
Allies for Pregnancy
Echinacea and Pregnancy
Red
Raspberry Little Effect?
Morning sickness: a mechanism for protecting mother and embryo.
Effect of ginger tea on the fetal development of Sprague-Dawley rats.
Acupressure treatment of morning sickness in pregnancy. A randomised,
double-blind, placebo-controlled study.
Are women carrying "basketballs" really having boys? Testing pregnancy
folklore.
Complications
(Please also
see "Preventing Complications" under Diet)
A neurodystrophic syndrome resembling carbohydrate-deficient glycoprotein
syndrome type III
Anti(sphingo)phospholipid Antibody Syndrome
Pregnancy Loss in
the Antiphospholipid-Antibody Syndrome — A Possible Thrombogenic
Mechanism
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/337/3/154
http://www.womens-health.co.uk/antiphos.htm
http://www.emedicine.com/MED/topic3258.htm
A lipid associated with the
antiphospholipid syndrome
regulates endosome structure and function.
Anti-beta2-glycoprotein I antibodies in women with
recurrent spontaneous abortion, unexplained fetal death, and antiphospholipid
syndrome.
Gestational Diabetes
For articles and links, Click
here
Pre-Eclampsia/Toxemia
Metabolic Toxemia of
Late Pregnancy. Thomas Brewer, MD. Keats Publishing, Inc. 1982.
Researchers
Identify Risk Factors For Preeclampsia in Hypertensive Women
http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/sept98/nichd-02.htm
Severely reduced presence of tissue
macrophages in the
basal plate of pre-eclamptic placentae.
(In other studies, including the next one,
glyconutrients have been proven to increase macrophage activity)
Effects of a
glyconutrient on macrophage functions.
(If I have my information straight, this study actually used
a supplement product you can order - ask me about where to
find it.)
For more on
Pre-Eclampsia, click here
CHILDREN'S
HEALTH AFFECTED BY MOTHERS BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER PREGNANCY
Chlorine
Link to Asthma Surge
ATS: Study Links
Early Exposure to Herbicides
and Wood and
Oil Smoke to Childhood Asthma Risk
A critical analysis of total
sialic acid and
sialoglycoconjugate contents of bovine milk-based infant formulas.
Girl
power:
When the going gets tough,
have daughters
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