Pregnancy

You cannot fully understand what it's like to be a pregnant woman, until you experience all the difficulties and discomfort of pregnancy yourself.

The Japanese scientists at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology have developed a Mommy Tummy suit that simulates pregnancy sensations.The dads-to-be can wear this pregnancy suit to go though nine months of weight gain, breast enlargement, baby kicks and changes in balance. The suit has a bladder that gradually fills in to increase the weight and imitate weight gain.

Now expecting mothers will be able to tell if they are having a boy or a girl by using simple home test that predicts the gender of the baby as early as 10 weeks after conception.

Many pregnant women become nervous and worried about their baby's health, especially if it is their first or high-risk pregnancy. Who doesn't know this feeling when you are in a constant state of anxiety and want to know everything that is going on with your unborn baby?

Parents, expecting their first child, often want to know every detail of their baby's growth. The developers of the PreVue eTextile Device wanted to give parents the possibility to get familiar with baby's growth when it is still in the womb.

The PreVue created by Melody Shiue, an industrial designer of the University of New South Wales, that looks like a pregnancy belt, features a electronic textile screen with a specially designed ultrasonic layer that shows the image of the baby, baby's movements, kicks and smiles during its fetal development.

This innovative gadget concept was created to help parents bond with their child, making both parents, especially fathers see what's going on with their child even before it is born.

While this great device is not available yet, the idea of developing a device that makes "fetal visualization" so easy is incredible and quite difficult to implement.

Premature delivery has always been associated with numerous health risks for a baby. To deal with this problem, students from the Johns Hopkins University have developed a novel device to detect the early signs of preterm labor and help to prevent it.

Parents' smoking habits can reduce their chances of conceiving a baby boy by almost half, scientists say.

The study conducted by paediatricians at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine implied that smokers are less likely to have a boy. Besides, smoking during pregnancy may prevent male embryo implanting in the womb and may become a cause for miscarriage.

Nowadays many parents want to raise smart and healthy children, beginning from the womb. Playing music to your unborn child is not a new idea and you can find a number of sound systems, like the Ritmo, designed especially for this purpose.

Scientists developed a medication taken once a month for women suffering from the recurrent miscarriages.

The previous studies conducted by Professor Siobhan Quenby, of School of Reproductive and Developmental Medicine, at the Liverpool University, showed that women, who underwent numerous miscarriages in the past have a high level of the uterine Natural Killer immune cells.

Most people become increasingly anxious about radiation, especially with the recent events in Japan. However, in our everyday life we also face some amount of radiation from different devices.

It is known that radiation can be especially harmful for pregnant women, children and young people, who are more vulnerable to radiation hazards. During pregnancy, the cells of an embryo divide very fast and any interventions can lead to negative consequences, such as birth defects or miscarriage.

The CARE bracelet is concept developed by Gang Wang, Bin Xiao and Yanyan Cheng of The Fun Team, that warns pregnant women about the high levels of radiation. The bracelet that could be safely worn by a woman changes its color from green to pink and starts vibrating, if the level of radiation becomes too high, warning the mother to leave the contaminated place.

Unfortunately, this health gadget is just a concept now, but let's hope it will soon be available to those, who need it the most.

Many women use home pregnancy tests to find if they are pregnant as early as possible. Home pregnancy tests are easy to use, inexpensive and are claimed to be 99 percent accurate in determining pregnancy. However, there are cases when the results of home pregnancy test can be false negative or false positive. What are the reasons that can make pregnancy test give wrong results?

Sleep problems are not uncommon for pregnant women. Many women find it difficult to fall asleep or stay asleep during pregnancy.

First of all, most moms-to be have trouble sleeping because of the growing belly, which makes it uncomfortable to sleep in many positions.

Every new mom wants to look as beautiful during pregnancy as before it, especially with those skin changes that occur due to hormonal fluctuations.

But not all skin care products will be suitable for expecting mothers. Surely, none of them would want to expose them and their little ones to toxic chemicals found in many skin care essentials.

If you are one of those women, who experience morning sickness, there is no reason to suffer in silence, even if the condition will last only several months. Although, in most cases morning sickness during the first trimester is not harmful, many women feel exhausted and miserable during this period.

If you want to give a timeless Christmas gift to your wife or friend, who is expecting, buy her a time capsule that will keep all those precious memories about the most important period of a woman's life.

Women, who use such common painkillers as paracetamol and ibuprofen during pregnancy may put their baby boys at risk of developing reproductive problems, a new study suggests.

We all want to give out best to our children even before they are born. If you've already heard about the benefits of music listening on the growing child, including the higher IQ, then you can start right from the time you baby is conceived.

Women, who want to get pregnant after miscarriage may not need to wait six or more months, the new study says.

According to the report presented by researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, women infected with HIV, who become pregnant are less likely to develop AIDS.

Problems, that pregnant women might go through, including insufficient sleep, difficulty in sleep initiation, very short duration of sleep, as well as loud snoring and hard breathing are the main results of passive exposure to smoking.

Overweight women who tend to perceive their body incorrectly are more likely to gain excessive weight during pregnancy, the study found.