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Pregnancy and flying
Specific to the health of the baby, no, you should not have any concerns over a single flight, or even over an occasional flight. From the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is this ...
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Did 79% of pregnancies in an early COVID-19 vaccine study result in loss?
No, please refer to the rest of the sentence:
Among 3958 participants enrolled in the v-safe pregnancy registry, 827 had a completed pregnancy, of which 115 (13.9%) were pregnancy losses and 712 (86....
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How to check pregnancy at home?
Without access to a doctor, a home pregnancy test is the most accurate way. It measures the amount of a hormone (hCG) in your urine (see for example WebMD's site on pregnancy tests for more ...
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Risks of having an unwanted child - worrying as a man
She had two periods afterwards so she is not pregnant.
Who are you to demand that she take a test? You pretty much called her a liar when you did that. If you can't or won't accept her at her word ...
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Maximum time after fertilization, after which pregnancy test no longer works
The tests work until after full-term.
The urine and blood tests both rely on detecting the same factor being present, human chorionic gonadotropin. The tests continue to work fully in all cases of ...
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Can Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome be caused by medication?
The following is of course, in case the diagnosis is confirmed.
SLO is an autosomal recessive pathology, which means both parents are carrier of one mutated allele of the DHCR7. They do not express ...
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Can Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome be caused by medication?
Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome is a genetic condition that only occurs if both parents are carriers of the mutation. For each chromosome that isn't a sex chromosome, we get one copy from each parent, so ...
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Faint line on pregnancy test
Any line, including a very faint line, is considered a positive result on home pregnancy tests. To be sure, you may want to wait a couple of days (2 or 3) and then take another test. If you are ...
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Clonazepam and pregnancy
This is an issue for which YOU NEED to have a risks-benefits discussion with a doctor. Only they can help guide you whether to continue the medication or not, as there may be risks either way.
I am ...
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What is the life expectancy of a sperm in dried semen?
There's no need to worry. Getting pregnant isn't that easy.1
It's unlikely that sperm survive for 2 hours.
On a dry surface, such as clothing or bedding, sperm are dead by the time the semen has ...
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In an emergency situation, how does the medical doctor determine that an unconscious patient is pregnant?
While the blood pregnancy test is one option, urine pregnancy tests are still possible in an unconscious patient via a Foley catheter, which is a tube inserted up the urethra into the bladder. These ...
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In an emergency situation, how does the medical doctor determine that an unconscious patient is pregnant?
If you are involved in an accident and are unconscious or have a reduced mental status (GCS < 11)1,2, the trauma team / shock room will be activated.
Most trauma centres follow the ATLS system, ...
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Risks for VBAC vs repeat Cesarean
This question is difficult to answer because risk discussions are individualized. Instead of answering, I will point you to reliable resources to guide your discussion with your OB.
One great ...
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Are there other uses for prenatal vitamins?
There's a number of medical reasons to take the pill other than preventing pregnancy :
Regulating menstruation to avoid having irregular, overly frequent, overly abundant or painful periods, as well ...
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What is the effect of smoking before or during early pregnancy on the baby?
While most studies appear to be on women who quit during pregnancy, I found a study that compared pregnancy outcomes in women who never smoked, quit smoking before pregnancy, quit smoking in early ...
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Effect of mother's emotional state on baby
Yes, a mother's emotional state can, unfortunately, adversely affect the fetus, and the effect can in some cases can be long-lasting.
To put it simply, your genetic code is the blueprint of your ...
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Will maximizing my ejaculation load help to increase my chances of becoming a father?
No.
The only exception is if your doctor has conducted a semen analysis and determined that you have oligospermia, in which case your doctor might recommend having sexual intercourse with your wife 3-...
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Is there any truth to the claim that pregnancy is somehow a health risk to women?
In the U.S., 14 in every 100 000 pregnancies are fatal for the mother. While this may not seem much, consider the following graphic:
In picture B and D the blue bars indicate deaths due to ...
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Is O positive male compatible (fertility wise) with AB positive female?
This is something to be confirmed by your doctor and I'm not sure why you're worried, but
ABO blood group incompatibilities between the mother and child does not usually cause hemolytic disease of ...
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What is the fetal viability of a full-term birth baby?
The concept of fetal viability is really only relevant when discussing premature infants. You are correct that the wikipedia figures are difficult to interpret. They come from this website, which is ...
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Can pregnancy lead to growing taller?
It's possible, but don't count on it.
Amazingly, there isn't really much in the literature about this that I could find - most studies focus on maternal weight, not height. While the absence of ...
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What are the effects of routine and daily meditation and physical exercise on pregnancy?
I wasn't able to find a study that looked at both meditation and exercise - besides ones about yoga - but I was able to find many that looked at each separately and seemed to indicate that combining ...
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Which of these things is needed for a first time pregnancy checkup?
I am going to try and tackle this. If anything isn't covered or is unclear, please leave a comment.
1) Initial Consultation
That is, I assume, just the initial doctor's visit - taking your wife'...
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How to treat a pregnant woman with a very low platelet count in her 9th month of pregnancy?
Please note that you have not gived a definition for your numbers. 15,000 platelets per µL? mL? L? It matters. 50,000/L is much different than 50,000/µL.
Thrombocytopenia is not uncommon during ...
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Growing foetus in another woman's womb
Currently no, but there is work in progress that will allow extremely premature babies to be grown in artificial uteri. It has so far worked well for baby goats.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/...
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Are women the most fertile right after puberty
If I understand your question right:
WebMD:
Fertility peaks in your 20s.
So yes, young women are more fertile after puberty in their 20's. If you consider that after, as it would be around 7-18 ...
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Menstruation and emergency contraceptives
Questions about medications are usually best answered by the manufacturer, or by a site such as drugs.com or rxlist.com. In this case, the manufacturer has this to say:
You have to know that ...
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What effect would a sperm containing XX have on a ovum and fetus?
Well, neglecting anything but the pure genetics' basics, yes, the XX mother will in any case transfer her X chromosome, just like the assumed "XX father", so the only possible genotype for the child ...
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