Just in time for all the Labor Day BBQ sweets: “New Study: Chocolate during Pregnancy Lowers Risks of Hypertension” http://ow.ly/2yAQc
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New discussion: Between the undivided attention of your doctor, friends and family, the pregnancy tests and the constant calendar watching when you are/were trying to conceive, how hard was/is it to distract that part of your brain consumed with becoming pregnant? What are some of the best activities/ways you’ve found to distract yourself (or do you even bother)? Thoughts
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New discussion: What was/is the most informative pregnancy book you read/are reading? Would you recommend it to others?
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It has gotten great reviews and looks promising; they even cover storing your baby’s cord blood. The book is a compendium of advice from MDs who also happen to be moms, full of tips and tidbits you may find useful
The tips and stories in this book are presented in the Mommy MD Guides’ own words, and each tip is clearly attributed to the doctor who lived it. Most of these stories contain kernels of advice. This is what doctors who were becoming mothers did to make it through pregnancy and birth. Other stories in this book are just that—stories. The implied advice is: I made it through this pesky problem, and you can too!.
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New Discussion: How did you find out about the usefulness of umbilical cord blood? Doctor? Friend? Online?
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NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y. (CBS/AP) Shannon Tavarez became a Broadway star at just 11 years old, landing the role of Young Nala in “The Lion King.”
She won the role in an open audition – her first.
But just seven months into her dream role, her doctor’s gave her a terrifying review – acute myeloid leukemia.
They told her a bone marrow transplant was her best chance of beating the deadly cancer, but a match couldn’t be found. Shannon is of mixed heritage, both African American and Hispanic. Mixed donors are underrepresented amongst bone marrow donors.
But Shannon’s doctors didn’t give up. On Tuesday, they tried another approach. They performed an umbilical-cord blood transplant at Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New Hyde Park, N.Y.
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New Discussion: What was the best part of being pregnant?
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Women who are given psychological support by specially trained health visitors are less likely to develop post-natal depression, says a report. The findings are in a study from the universities of Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield. This is the world’s first, large-scale randomized trial of this kind of intervention, of more than 2,000 women following childbirth according to its authors.
The study found that those women who were seen by a health visitor with additional mental health training were 30% less likely to develop depression six months after child birth compared with women receiving usual care.
Even women who had few or no complaints of depression at six weeks after child birth appeared to benefit later if their health visitor had the additional training, the research says.
Lead author Professor Terry Brugha, of the University of Leicester Clinical Division of Psychiatry, said: “Up until now, it was thought that depression could only be treated when it is picked up by a GP or health visitor.
“But this study shows that women are less likely to become depressed in the year after childbirth if they are attended by an NHS health visitor who has undergone additional training in specific mental health assessment and in psychological approaches based on either cognitive behavioural or listening techniques.”
Women receiving normal care were significantly more likely to develop depression six months after childbirth.
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T. S. Brugha, C. J. Morrell, P. Slade and S. J. Walters Universal prevention of depression in women postnatally: cluster randomized trial evidence in primary care. Psychological Medicine, Published online by Cambridge University Press 18 Aug 2010 doi:10.1017/S0033291710001467
Aug. 5 saw the introduction of the “Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Reauthorization Act of 2010.” Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Christopher Dodd (D-CT), Richard Burr (R-NC), Jack Reed (D-RI), John Ensign (R-NV), and Al Franken (D-MN) introduced the act in the U.S. Senate as S. 3751. August 9, Reps. C.W. Bill Young (R-FL) and Doris Matsui (D-CA) introduced the companion legislation, (H.R. 6081), in the House. This legislation seeks to reauthorize the C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program (National Program) and the National Cord Blood Inventory (NCBI). These programs must be reauthorized before the NCBI sunsets.
Last year 12,000 patients searched the national registry, publicly known as the Be The Match Registry®, for a marrow donor or umbilical cord blood unit.
