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How long will it take to show the signs of pregnancy after intercourse
Assuming pregnancy takes place, the only reliable sign that a woman is pregnant is cessation of her menstrual period. If she's late, urine tests are a reliable way to confirm pregnancy, especially if ...
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How much Vitamin B12 do you need?
The estimated daily requirement needed to maintain body stores of B12 varies, an estimate being from 2µg to 5µg, more if stores have been depleted in any way. It is estimated that the average person ...
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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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Is smoking during pregnancy harmful to child and mother?
Smoking during pregnancy is bad. Really bad. It will be damaging to the baby, and possibly even to the mother.
Firstly, smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriages. It can also cause ...
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Is smoking during pregnancy harmful to child and mother?
Smoking during pregnancy is related to many effects on health and it increases the risk in children as well. Even if the mother doesn't smoke, the risk increases significantly with higher amount of ...
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Are there ways to calculate the chance of becoming pregnant from a single sexual encounter?
There are many facts to consider in answering the question, but in effect, yes, one can calculate the chances. Things to consider:
type of condom
correct usage of condom
point in the menstrual cycle
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How soon can you know if you will have twins, triplets and can one increase this chance?
First of all, just to be clear: IVF-associated twinning and “tripletting” are most commonly of the dizygotic (“fraternal”) variety. You appear to be asking about monozygotic (“identical”) twinning ...
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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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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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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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Root canal before trying to get pregnant
The anesthetics used for the root canal are not very long lasting. An example of the longer-acting local anesthetics is Bupivacaine. The average half-life of Bupivacaine Hydrochloride in adults is 2.7 ...
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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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In childbirth, can one twin's arm stick out of the womb and then the other child is born first?
"When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb. As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his wrist and ...
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Alcohol consumption during pregnancy
High levels of alcohol consumption during pregnancy can be harmful which can develop physical and mental defects in a fetus.
When you drink, alcohol passes from your blood through placenta to a baby ...
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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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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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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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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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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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