What To Expect – When Your Breasts Change During/After Pregnancy
Yes, your breasts do go through a lot of changes when you get pregnant. Learn what they are and other developments that could happen with breastfeeding.
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis in Sickle Cell Disease.
Couples in relationships where both are carriers for a genetic illness find themselves in a particularly challenging situation. Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD or PIGD) is a procedure to assi
What are the reasons for a C-Section?
C-section or caesarean delivery is an alternative method for vaginal delivery of a baby. In a C-section or CS, doctors make a surgical cut into both the walls of the woman's abdomen and then the uter
Keeping New Mothers Safe Postpartum Haemorrhage Symptoms – Part 3
Some conditions may increase the risk of postpartum hemorrhage. They may exist before labour, occur during labour or afterwards.
Keeping New Mothers Safe from Postpartum Haemorrhage – Part 1
In the first of this 3-part series, we look at the meaning of postpartum haemorrhage and its present impact on the health care of pregnant women.
Keeping New Mums safe; bleeding after delivery – Pt 2
Here, in the second part of the series, we look at the process of bleeding after pregnancy and what we expect in the normal course of events.
Is The Lotus Birth For You? – Part 2
With high rates of health care-associated infection in Nigeria, growing resistance to antimicrobial agents and relatively weak healthcare system, the potential risks that Lotus birth exposes the baby
Birth Choices – Is the Lotus Birth for you? – Part 1
In the Lotus Birth protocol, there is no umbilical cord clamping and cutting.First, the baby is delivered and provided with immediate care by attendants while awaiting the delivery of the placenta.The
