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Natural Morning Sickness Remedies

It is estimated between 50-80 percent of pregnant women suffer from nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. Commonly called morning sickness, this nausea and vomiting can last all day long. Although I did not have any morning sickness during my pregnancy, before I was pregnant I gathered lots of information about natural remedies for morning sickness [...]

Baby Products: What to Get and What to Forget

Are you pregnant and trying to decide what baby products to buy? Or what baby gear to register for? With the plethora of baby “stuff” in stores these days, it can be overwhelming to determine what you need and what you can live without. We don’t all have unlimited space in our houses or unlimited [...]

Premature Birth Report Card: U.S. Gets a ‘D’

Earlier this month, the March of Dimes released the first annual report card for preterm births and the results are shocking. Not a single state in the U.S. received an ‘A’, and only Vermont received a ‘B’. In 2005, the U.S. preterm birth rate was 12.7% (the most recent year for data). The preterm birth [...]