Cause That Baby Fat

When waiting for the mother to the baby fat is also the father, as a survey of 5,000 British men, greased more than 5 pounds during pregnancy proved their partners. The kitchen is full of food and temptation difficult to resist future father is a fifth of respondents said they eat more frequently than usual, and 41% indicated the presence of more snacks and sweets around the house. Many have noticed that on a few pounds on the issue of forced labor in order to buy clothes "pre-daddy".

25% of men say that they deliberately put on weight in order to feel less uncomfortable partner pregnant because of her weight gain. 31% of respondents said that, always kept pace with his partner in the diet after delivery.

A thick and they could fatten him, but also for the female sex are fixed and some forbidden food as healthy for the baby, your partner do not drink on the restrictions and thus enjoy all types of food, from pizza, sweets, chocolate and drinking alcohol. It does not owe their waists.

The feeding behavior of humans during pregnancy by their partners, experts say, is not to be underestimated: the father of gastronomic choices are characterized in that the mother against, and as a result the child.

Digestive Disorders in Pregnant Women

L'acupuncture can relieve the symptoms of digestive disorders in pregnant women. The researchers say the University of São Paulo in Brazil, that the treatment tested on a group of 36 women and "significant improvements" to the state of health of their "belly" found.

The Digestive disorders are the most common problems in the first nine months of pregnancy, from 45 to 80% of pregnant women attending the scholars felt nausea, gastritis, flatulence and other stomach pain, symptoms tend to worsen in the near future. Tested as a result of acupuncture on women between 15 and 39 years, between 15 and 30 weeks repeated with 1-2 applications per week for eight weeks.

 "After treatment, reported 75% of women who have an improvement of at least 50% of the symptoms associated with poor digestion compared to the control group who did not undergo acupuncture," the researchers explain in Brazil. The study, published in the journal Acupuncture in Medicine showed that in addition to reducing heartburn, in applying the needles 1 female 2 allows a better night's sleep.

Predicting a Progesterone Early Birth

A simple saliva sample to determine whether the pregnant woman's risk of having a premature baby. The rapid test was (United Kingdom) by British researchers at the University College and King's College London and the study of 92 women in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology published developed.

The key to predicting a progesterone early birth. The hormone has anti-inflammatory properties that is, without relief bacterial infections, one of the possible causes of preterm birth. Scientists have low progesterone in the saliva of women in the labor market before 34 Gestation found.

According to the authors of the tests, such as saliva, "easy to without a needle or blood together," said the coordinator of the research group Lucilla Poston, late in the future, time for life-saving therapies, treatments with steroids to. Better development of the lungs of premature infants

Every year in Italy about 5,000 children are born prematurely, 7% of the total number of births. After the completion of the World Health Organization, it is premature babies before 37 Born week.

Alcoholic Beverages During Pregnancy

The consumption of alcoholic beverages during pregnancy and low birth weight of the baby as a result of poor sleep quality and increased risk of sleep disorders in children under eight years: it is the result of a study by Finnish researchers conducted the University of Helsinki and published in Sleep , the journal of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies'.

Were testing 289 children prematurely subjected born between March and November 1998: the duration and quality of sleep was measured with actigrafi and evaluated by means of questionnaires that they parents who reported a decreased respiratory and subjected restlessness during sleep .

"The response from the tests on the groove` fetal origins hypothesis our health have been carried out - says Katri Raikkonen, who coordianto study -. And a further confirmation of the theory that, the living conditions in the prenatal period provides advance the behavior

This finding has interesting implications studies: l `insomnia associated child indeed with diseases such as obesity, depression, disorders of` attention and hyperactivity, poor neurological function.