First pregnancy is always an important step and exceptional event in the life. Everything depend if your first pregnancy is planned and wanted or unplanned and unwanted. If your pregnancy is wanted – you are very happy, everybody congratulate you and you are looking...
Abortion Definition An “abortion” is the termination of unwanted pregnancy. It can be spontaneous (also called miscarriage) or induced. Abortion can be induced surgically (e.g., by vacuum aspiration, or dilatation and curettage) or medically (e.g., using an...
Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is a hormone created during the early part of pregnancy. The hCG production plays a critical role in the pregnancy development. Human chorionic gonadotropin is responsible for: prevention the disintegration of the corpus luteum;...
Fertilization occurs when a live sperm penetrates the newly released mature egg successfully and cell division starts. The woman has now conceived – the embryo is growing! During sexual intercourse, millions of sperm are released into the vagina and move through...
Many women can experience episodes of bleeding, brown discharge and/or spotting during pregnancy. Bleeding is especially common during first trimester of pregnancy and about 20%-30% of pregnant women could experience vaginal or uterine bleeding during this time....
You and your partner decided to start happy family and you are ready for having a baby. What you should do? – Nothing special. You just need regular sexual contacts and become pregnant. But what to do if you tried during few months and you are still not pregnant?...
Is it possible to have periods during pregnancy? Does period during pregnancy mean miscarriage? Why some women have “period” during pregnancy? Any woman, who discovers “period” during pregnancy or what seem to be period, could be puzzled and naturally worried. First...
Brown Discharge during third trimester of Pregnancy could be a signal of threat to the health of the woman or the fetus. Unusual bleeding in the second or third trimester of pregnancy might be graver since it could be an indication of maternal-fetal related problems...
About 30-35% pregnant women experience implantation bleeding and/or brown discharge during implantation. Implantation bleeding is a vaginal discharge which usually contains a small amount of pinkish or brown blood. Usually the implantation brown discharge can happen...
Pregnancy is a huge stress for women body. During pregnancy women experience pretty complicated body changes which insure normal baby development. Increased weight, enlarged belly and breasts could create a lot of problems during normal sleep. It is essential to get...
Basal Body Temperature (BBT) is the body temperature in the morning before rising or moving around or eating anything. Basal temperature can be used for checking your fertile days , for identifying your ovulation day, for using natural methods of contraception and for...
Missed period can be an alarm for pregnancy but missed cycle not always means pregnancy. Your cycle could be missed if you had a stress (sometimes exams, meek love or fight with loved ones), if you are sick (some infection diseases), if you dramatically loose a...
Most pregnancy tests (home pregnancy tests) determine pregnancy through the detection of the hormone Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) in a woman’s urine. Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) is a hormone which is produced early in pregnancy by the placenta in great...
If you missed your period and plus you discovered some pregnancy symptoms like changes in you appetite, frequent urination, morning sickness, tender breasts, increased vaginal discharges and some other unusual feelings, you definitely need to prove that you are really...
Every woman knows that one of the first pregnancy symptoms is changes in breasts (changes of breast tissue, changes in breast size and changes in breast sensitivity). Breasts very early respond to very early stages of pregnancy. Very often the breast changes are...