Sentences with phrase «increasing number of pregnancies»

Because some studies have suggested that the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) increases with an increasing number of pregnancies, the team also examined the brains for signs of the disease, allowing them to determine whether AD correlated with the observed microchimerism.

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He argues that churches may have unwittingly increased the number of women seeking terminations by the shame and secrecy surrounding unwanted pregnancies and failure to present viable alternatives.

When this scenario of cheap contraception leading to increased sex occurs widely, the law of large numbers plays out and pregnancies increase.

Another interesting fact about fetal weight is that birth weights tends to increase with the number of pregnancies you have.

The sheer number of people conceiving multiple pregnancies has increased over the last couple of decades.

This increase in the number of multiple pregnancies is primarily because about one - third of the women who are having babies are over the age of thirty, and that is the age for women when they are more likely to conceive multiples.

Early in pregnancy, the number of fetuses noted on ultrasound can be decreased in order to increase the chances of having a baby or babies delivered as close to full term as possible.

Multiple pregnancies have been on the rise in recent years with increasing numbers of twins and other types of multiples being born.

«When one combines the obstacles to bearing or adopting with women's desire to achieve and consequently putting off pregnancy, the high divorce rate, and the potential complications of second marriages and blended families, it's easy to understand the swift increase in the number of only children in our society.»

By increasing the number of sperm and eggs that reach the fallopian tubes, where fertilization takes place, IUI can increase the chances of fertilization and pregnancy.

A large number of ovaries increases the chance of pregnancy, but unfortunately has also been associated with ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS), which is sometimes called the most important side effect of fertility treatment.

Jane Munro, from the Royal College of Midwives, said: «The increase in the number of women starting to breastfeed and the reduction in smoking before and during pregnancy is good news for the health of the nation.

It is normal that you want to urinate in increased number of times than before and is also a sign that nears you to pregnancy.

In the US, the Obama administration has funded a range of initiatives that require the use of evidence - based strategies in areas such as teen pregnancy prevention, home visiting, education and workforce innovation.2, 3 In the field of home visiting, an increasing number of programs have been rigorously evaluated and have demonstrated evidence of effectiveness in outcome domains such as parenting, maternal and child health, child development and school readiness, reductions in child maltreatment, and family economic self - sufficiency.4, 5,6

Smoking and drug use — smoking through pregnancy can affect your baby's development in a number of ways and increases your chances of having a premature baby

The number of multiple pregnancies have increased over the last twenty years.

They stress that increasing success rates while also reducing the number of multiple pregnancies is a major hurdle in the IVF field.

Excess weight gain during pregnancy increases the risk of a number of pregnancy complications including gestational diabetes, high blood pressure, fetal growth abnormalities and increased difficulty during labor and delivery.

«The increased number of newborns with microcephaly observed during the Zika outbreak in Brazil is linked to Zika infection of the mother during early pregnancy,» explains Drexler.

Between them lies the common approach of IUI, with prior ovarian stimulation to increase the number of leading follicles and thereby the chance of pregnancy.

«According to our rough calculations, taking into account the wholesale value of milk, the number of two - year - old heifers added to U.S. dairy herds annually, the production advantage across the first two lactations of conceiving a daughter on the first pregnancy, and the increased probability of conceiving a daughter from sex - selected semen, suggests a gross value in the neighborhood of $ 200 million in milk production across the first two lactations alone,» the team reported.

The reason for this decline is not fully understood, but it has been attributed to the increasing use of contraceptives, especially long - acting methods such as intrauterine devices, historic declines in the rate of unintended pregnancy and increasing numbers of state regulations that limit the availability of otherwise legal abortion services.

«A number of epidemiological studies have suggested that taking antacid medicines in pregnancy is linked to an increased risk of asthma in the offspring.

Also the number of beta cells can increase during obesity and pregnancy in an attempt to balance the greater insulin demand under these conditions.

Although vaccination induces an inflammatory response during pregnancy, the magnitude and the duration of response is much lower and shorter, respectively, for influenza vaccination than viral infection.27 Like infection, influenza vaccination during pregnancy has been reported to induce a transient increase in the levels of a number of proinflammatory cytokines, including interleukin 6, tumor necrosis factor α, and C - reactive protein.27 - 30 Studies on mice found an association between high interleukin - 6 levels during pregnancy and abnormal behavior and brain structure.19 However, in epidemiological studies, associations between maternal cytokine levels and ASD have been mixed.

Estriol has been found to have beneficial immune - modulating effects in patients with multiple sclerosis, increasing protective immune responses and decreasing the number and volume of lesions seen in cerebral MRIs.22 Estriol is the primary estrogen produced during pregnancy, when it is made by placenta from 16α - OH DHEA sulfate (DHEA - S), an androgen made in the fetal liver and in the adrenal glands.23

It is known, however, from an increasing number of long - term observational studies, that the unique physiologic conditions and complications of pregnancy predict future disease risk for both mothers and their offspring.

Pregnancy can be detected either by using pregnancy tests, or by the woman herself noticing a number of symptoms including a missed menstrual period, increased basal body temperature, fatigue, nausea, and increased frequency of uPregnancy can be detected either by using pregnancy tests, or by the woman herself noticing a number of symptoms including a missed menstrual period, increased basal body temperature, fatigue, nausea, and increased frequency of upregnancy tests, or by the woman herself noticing a number of symptoms including a missed menstrual period, increased basal body temperature, fatigue, nausea, and increased frequency of urination.

And then also reducing stress both before and during pregnancies has been shown to alter, say, the structure of your baby's brain, increases the risk of asthma, reduces the numbers of neurons in a number of parts of the brain and is linked with autism and ADHD.

as an increasing number of americans of all classes to do with pregnancy.

It was based, in part, on public health models that aspire, for example, to increase numbers of annual healthy births and immunized kindergarteners and decrease things like malnutrition, disease, and teen pregnancy.

Evidence - based home - visiting programs, like the Nurse - Family Partnership (which relies on trained nurses to support parents from pregnancy through the first two years of a baby's life)-- as well as center - based programs that also include home visits, like Early Head Start — have been shown to enhance parents» sensitivity to their infants» and toddlers» cues, lessen reliance on spanking, and increase the number of age - appropriate learning materials around the house (as well as the amount of time spent reading to kids).

It will be necessary to increase the number of meals given and feed a diet formulated for pregnant females or kittens, since this provides the additional nutrients required for pregnancy and nursing.

Imidacloprid fed to pregnant rabbits between the sixth and eighteenth days of pregnancy caused an increase in the frequency of miscarriages and an increase in the number of offspring with abnormal skeletons.

The increase in the number of cesarean sections over time may be in part because of breeders playing it safe and electing to do a c - section if there are many big puppies seen on a pregnancy x-ray.

There are now a number of studies about tobacco and alcohol increasing spontaneous abortions but one must be careful to distinguish studies whose patient population has a confirmed pregnancy (seven weeks after last menses) from those «early pregnancy loss» studies using daily urine samples tested for human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) to detect pregnancy via hCG rise in the second week after ovulation.

Increase the number of weeks of maternity benefits for a multiple pregnancy.

In the event of a multiple pregnancy, the maximum number of weeks of benefits is increased by five weeks, from 18 to 23 (four for the special plan).

The program aims to reduce the frequency of unprotected sex by reducing the number of sexually active students and increasing condom use and other methods of pregnancy protection among students who are sexually active.

The program aims to reduce the frequency of unprotected sex among high - school - age students by reducing the number of sexually active students and increasing condom use and other methods of pregnancy protection among students who are sexually active.

Objectives include improving the health of women prior to pregnancy, increasing the number of women who deliver at term, improving birth intervals, increasing access to quality preconception, interconception, prenatal, and postnatal health care, and providing continuity of care and care coordination from the postnatal period through subsequent pregnancies.

Generally, stress during pregnancy has been associated with an increased risk for a number of negative outcomes in children.

«This policy of attempting to undermine Planned Parenthood, the organization in the United States that does more than any other to encourage the use of contraception for those wanting to avoid pregnancy, certainly guarantees an increase in the number of unintended pregnancies.

«There will be very quick consequences for the state,» she says — including increased costs for unplanned pregnancies, costlier cancer treatments begun in later stages of disease, and, ironically, a likely increase in the number of abortions.

«It is a tragedy that after a decade of progress in reducing the rate of teenage pregnancy, we are witnessing a substantial increase in the number of teens who are getting pregnant.

The Clinton - Lowey resolution follows a recently released Guttmacher Institute report on abortion and other studies that have found that the number of unintended pregnancies is increasing among low - income women and that contraception is critical to reducing the numbers of unintended pregnancies and abortions.

In the absence of state - funded family planning centers, the number of unintended pregnancies in Massachusetts would soar by approximately 25 % and the number of abortions would increase by approximately 23 %.

Noting that approximately half of all pregnancies are unplanned, he said reducing access to birth control could increase the number of unintended pregnancies among women exposed to Zika through travel, sexual contact, or the new local outbreak.

We added pregnancy testing and colposcopy services, and the number of clients we served increased.

«This policy is sure to tragically increase the number of unintended pregnancies, unsafe abortions and women dying from pregnancy - related complications around the world.