For each cigarette a pregnant woman lights up each day, she raises her baby’s risk of strabismus by 5 percent, new research suggests.

Further, the effect of smoking…

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that epigenetic marks on human placentas change from the first trimester of…

Perhaps not surprisingly, children whose mothers gained too much weight during pregnancy tend to have more body fat than those whose moms stayed within the recommended weight-gain range,…

Obese women who have bariatric surgery before getting pregnant are at significantly lower risk for developing dangerous hypertensive disorders during pregnancy than those who don’t, according to…

Studies have shown that married couples’ risk of divorce can go up after the death of a child, and now new findings suggest that relationships may also become…

Large amounts of vitamins C and E do not prevent preeclampsia, blood pressure problems in pregnant women, researchers reported on Wednesday.

In fact, results from the 4-1/2-year test of…

Gaining too much weight while pregnant can have consequences that last well after the pregnancy is over, new research shows.

The findings are probably no surprise to new…

Fewer than 1 in 4 pregnant women meet physical activity guidelines set by doctors and health officials, according to a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study.

Guidelines set…

Stress during pregnancy may raise the risk of asthma in offspring, according to researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. The researchers investigated…

When pregnant women take antidepressants, it sometimes causes their babies to hit developmental milestones late, Danish researchers reported on Monday.

However, the delays-up to one month-still place the toddlers within…

Being overweight or obese increases a woman’s chances of having an extra-big baby, even after the effects of pregnancy-related, or “gestational,” diabetes are taken into account, new research shows.

Excess weight…

Gentle manipulation from an osteopathic doctor may relieve late-pregnancy back pain that frequently hinders bending, lifting, or walking, findings from a small study hint.

Doctors in osteopathic medicine (DOs) are…

New evidence that genetics play a significant role in some premature births may help explain why a woman can do everything right and…

Monitoring high-risk pregnancies with ultrasound tests may help prevent some fetal and newborn deaths, a new research review finds.

The review assessed a technology called Doppler ultrasound, which measures blood…

The U.S. teen pregnancy rate rose in 2006 for the first time in more than a decade, reversing a long slide, a U.S. think tank reported on Tuesday.

The…

A new study by the Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium has estimated that more than 125 million pregnancies around the world are at risk from…

Women who smoke marijuana during pregnancy may impair their baby’s growth and development in the womb, a new study suggests.

Poor fetal growth and reduced head circumference at birth…

There is no evidence that eating in the hours leading up to the birth causes harm to them or their baby, researchers believe.

In the past women have been discouraged…

Normally, parents who want to know the sex of their baby before it’s born find out through ultrasound done in the second trimester. A blood test that can be…

Drinking lots of sugar-sweetened cola may increase women’s likelihood of developing diabetes during pregnancy, a condition known as gestational diabetes, new research shows.

Compared to women who had less than…

A new study shows the employment and sociodemographic characteristics involved in the exposure of pregnant women to workplace hazards. Of these, 56%…

More than 10 percent of women of Chinese and Korean heritage may be at risk for developing diabetes during pregnancy, according to a Kaiser Permanente study…

A new article published in the peer-reviewed journal Women’s Health emphasizes the importance of early pregnancy detection. Using research conducted on behalf of Church &…

A study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) revealed that MRI is a highly accurate means of identifying placenta accreta, a potentially life-threatening…

Women who have gestational glucose intolerance (a condition less severe than gestational diabetes) exhibit multiple cardiovascular risk factors as early as three months after birth, according to a…