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Why Pregnant Women Need Chiropractic Care
May 10th
Chiropractic Care During Pregnancy
Here is a big breakthrough for chiropractic medicine, a lot of people believe that undergoing chiropractic treatments while they are pregnant is great for both the mother and her baby inside the womb.
After a woman becomes pregnant her body undergoes many physiological and endocrinological changes while the baby inside her womb begins to develop.
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Precautions When Traveling While Pregnant
Jan 24th
Woman traveling during pregnancy
When you are pregnant you must take special precautions to protect both yourself and your unborn child from illness when traveling to underdeveloped countries. However, many immunizations and medications routinely recommended for travelers are either unsafe or have not been adequately studied in pregnant women.
Live viral vaccines should be avoided during pregnancy because of the theoretical risk to the developing fetus. These would include measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccines. Yellow fever and oral polio vaccine can be used if there is a substantial risk of infection but should be delayed until after the first trimester if possible. If the risk of yellow fever is low, but a vaccination certificate is required for entrance into a country, a physician can issue you a waiver letter to excuse you from this requirement.
Live bacterial vaccines, including oral typhoid fever vaccine, have not been studied in pregnant women and their safety is unknown. Tetanus-diphtheria (Td) boosters are generally considered to be safe if needed. Immune [serum] globulin (ISG) can also be safely administered during pregnancy for the prevention of hepatitis A infection.
Malaria infection poses a special risk for the pregnant traveler and may result in a more severe infection and increases the risk of abortion, stillbirth, and prematurity. Chloraquine is a malaria medication that can be safely taken during pregnancy. This medication can protect you against the type of malaria which is found in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and certain countries in Central America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe.
However, resistant malaria found in Africa, Asia, South America, the Indian subcontinent, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands and certain countries in Central America and the Middle East requires the use of mefloquine (Lariam) or doxycycline. Doxycycline should not be taken during pregnancy but the CDC now states that mefloquine can be safely taken during pregnancy. If you plan to take chloraquine in areas with resistant malaria, some physicians recommend the addition of proguanil (Paludrine), which is not available in the US, for some added protection.
Antibiotics such as trimethoprim-sulfa (Bactrim) or ciprofloxacin (Cipro) that are recommended for treatment of travelers diarrhea can also be hazardous to pregnant women and should not be used. Care should also be taken in using any over-the-counter medication, especially those obtained overseas that you may not be familiar with.
Travel during the last six weeks of pregnancy is not recommended and may precipitate labor. Airlines often restrict the boarding privileges of such individuals. Prior to planning a trip abroad, pregnant travelers should first check with their obstetrician to assess their individual risks and determine whether they can travel safely.
Im Pregnant Because A Man Ejaculated In Swimming Pool?
Oct 30th
Pregnant from swimming pool?
No. It is not possible for a woman to become pregnant if there is ejaculate (“cum”) or pre-ejaculate (“pre-cum”) in the water of a pool or bathtub. Sperm survive well in moist, warm places that are close to a persons body temperature.
Pools are too cold, have too much chlorine, and too much water for sperm to survive. So people don’t have to worry about any ejaculate in pools, bathtubs, or jacuzzis.
However, pregnancy is possible if ejaculate or pre-ejaculate comes into direct contact with a woman’s vulva during sex play — in the water or on dry land.
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Is It Safe To Cleanse or Detoxify During Pregnancy
Sep 29th
I personally don’t advocate for a woman to detoxify her body while pregnant and/or breastfeeding.
pregnant woman detox
The First Trimester (or beginning 3 months of pregnancy) is Nature’s way and prescribed time framework of detoxifying the female body in preparation of holding a fetus.
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Getting Pregnant and Conception
Aug 23rd
pregnant woman
As much time as most women spend trying to keep from getting pregnant throughout their lives, it sometimes seems that for any woman who is sexually active, pregnancy is the default condition.
Pregnancy sneaks up on millions of women every month: pregnancy has been known to occur during one’s period, while still nursing an infant, when a partner has had a vasectomy, and when women are on the Pill.
Hormones, sponges, creams, foams and various latex and non-latex products have been pressed into use by women who are not at a stage in life where they want children.
It’s only when we start wanting to have children that we learn that pregnancy sometimes takes as much planning as childlessness did before.
It may be that the hectic nature of daily life has changed considerably from the time when, eons ago, all you needed was enough to eat and enough shelter to keep alive.
In fact, the nature of nature is to make us as fertile as possible under a wide variety of circumstances. But our bodies are still trying to adapt to the environment we have built, where things like jet lag, hot tubs and plain old fatigue can affect whether we can become pregnant.
The human body, while amazingly adaptable, is only willing to go so far: getting pregnant is often a matter of helping things along by working in a playful way to bring ovulation, active sperm, and a welcoming environment conducive to implantation together at the same time.
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Study Explains Why Pregnant Women Don´t Fall Over – CAMBRIDGE – A hugely pregnant woman teetering along is actually a sublime feat of evolutionary engineering – ages of adaptations have gone into her backbone to make sure she doesn’t fall on her face, scientists say. …
