A female body can do miracles. It can create a new life just in nine months. While this process is absolutely natural, it doesn’t go unnoticed for women’s health. A lot of pregnant women develop some medical conditions either during pregnancy or postpartum. Luckily, there are ways to avoid them and preserve good health for happy motherhood.
The CDC says that 19% of women of childbearing age are unable to conceive without medical help within a year of attempting. Another 26% of women have difficulties getting pregnant and preserving their pregnancies to term. A lot of medical conditions can affect the female ability to get pregnant, including:
Therefore, even at the stage of planning a pregnancy, women may face difficulties. Still, modern reproductive technologies offer multiple solutions to these problems.
In case you didn’t have any issues with getting pregnant, you may still face some challenges when you already know about your pregnancy. They are:
Postpartum can also bring troubles to women’s health. Pelvic muscle weakness, urine incontinence, and uterine prolapse are only an insignificant part of women’s health problems you may face.
Still, women don’t refuse parenthood and are ready to go through a lot to bring a new life to the world.
The best way to prevent women’s health issues while pregnant is to prepare your body for this period. We’ve compiled some pieces of advice on how you can prevent significant health problems:
The way to motherhood may not be easy. It goes through pain (physical and emotional), physical changes, and emotional instability. However, every mom will tell you that it’s so much worth the reward. Take good care of yourself and be healthy!
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Based on the information provided by the CDC, 60 to 75 percent of pregnant women suffer from gum disease. While this may seem a minor problem, those experiencing pregnancy gingivitis know how wrong this judgment is. Today we’ll explain why bleeding and swollen gums are typical of expecting mothers and how those can be prevented … Read more
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Every father accompanying his wife in labor feels thrilled when a doctor offers to cut the umbilical cord. This organ is somehow sacred, which is often explained by the fact that it is the thing that joins the mother and her baby not in the emotional sense but physically. The umbilical cord is an organ … Read more
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