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	<title>Private Midwifery in Sydney &#187; Preconception care</title>
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		<title>Chinese medicine could double chances of conceiving child</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link Couples with fertility problems are twice as likely to conceive using traditional Chinese medicine as compared to western drugs &#8230; The researchers at Adelaide University, Australia, reviewed eight clinical trials, 13 other studies and case reports comparing the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) with western drugs or IVF treatment. The review &#8230; included 1,851 women with infertility problems, and the clinical trials alone found a 3.5 rise in pregnancies over a four-month period among women using TCM compared with western medicine. &#8230; 50 percent of women having TCM got pregnant compared with 30 percent of those receiving IVF [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myths and Truths of Obesity and Pregnancy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link Ironically, despite excessive caloric intake, many obese women are deficient in vitamins vital to a healthy pregnancy &#8230; &#8230; Many obese women are vitamin deficient &#8230; Forty percent are deficient in iron, 24 percent in folic acid and 4 percent in B12. This is a concern because certain vitamins, like folic acid, are very important before conception, lowering the risk of cardiac problems and spinal defects in newborns. Other vitamins, such as calcium and iron, are needed throughout pregnancy to help babies grow. &#8230; vitamin deficiency has to do with the quality of the diet, not the quantity. Obese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baby&#8217;s Weight Affected By Mothers&#8217; Weight Before And During Pregnancy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link A new study &#8230; reveals that both pre-pregnant weight (body mass index, BMI) and weight gain in pregnancy are important predictors of babies&#8217; birthweight. This is important since high birthweight may also predict adult overweight. &#8230; Results of the study showed that birthweight of the newborn child increased with increasing maternal pre-pregnant BMI, and that offspring birthweight also increased with increasing weight gain of the mother during pregnancy. Every increase in one kg of pre-pregnancy BMI increased birthweight with 22.4 g. A subsequent increase in weight gain during pregnancy of 10 kg increased birthweight with 224 g. &#8230; &#8220;Encouraging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Pregnancy Changes a Woman&#8217;s Brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link &#8230; At no other time in a woman&#8217;s life does she experience such massive hormonal fluctuations as during pregnancy. Research suggests that the reproductive hormones may ready a woman&#8217;s brain for the demands of motherhood &#8212; helping her become less rattled by stress and more attuned to her baby&#8217;s needs. Although the hypothesis remains untested, Glynn surmises this might be why moms wake up when the baby stirs while dads snore on. Other studies confirm the truth in a common complaint of pregnant women: &#8220;Mommy Brain,&#8221; or impaired memory before and after birth. &#8220;There may be a cost&#8221; of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obesity epidemic may have roots in 1950s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link After long days discussing America&#8217;s obesity problem, Melinda Sothern has had enough of windowless conference rooms. &#8230; Sothern, 55, is a woman who practices what she preaches. And one of her messages about obesity is aimed at women like herself: mothers. Fat mothers. Thin mothers. And especially mothers-to-be. A leading fitness and nutrition expert &#8230;, she has a theory that the tide of obesity that has swept the nation in the last two decades had its roots in what young mothers did, or didn&#8217;t do, in the postwar, suburban-sprouting 1950s. If she&#8217;s right — and evidence is stacking up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decision-making: Heart and Head</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through my practice, I have a lot of women coming to me who are experiencing conflict with regards to the choices they have made for their pregnancy and birth. Typically, they find (sometimes quite late in their pregnancy) that perhaps the choice they made right back at the start of their pregnancy, no longer works for the, or the choice that they made was perhaps not as well informed as they thought it was. Some women find it hard to take the attitude of interviewing potential care providers before pregnancy (or very early in pregnancy) and then choosing the midwife [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obesity in pregnancy hinders women&#8217;s ability to fight infection</title>
		<link>http://www.sydneymidwife.com.au/2011/05/obesity-in-pregnancy-hinders-womens-ability-to-fight-infection/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=obesity-in-pregnancy-hinders-womens-ability-to-fight-infection</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 18:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visit my website to explore home birth, hospital birth and Medicare-funded private midwifery care. Link Pregnant women who are obese are less able to fight infections than lean women, which could affect their baby&#8217;s health after birth and later in life &#8230; &#8230; Obesity in pregnancy has been associated with an increase in infections such as chorioamnionitis &#8230; &#8230; obese women had fewer CD8+ (cytotoxic T) cells and natural killer cells, which help fight infection, compared to lean women. In addition, obese pregnant women&#8217;s ability to produce cells to fight infection was impaired. &#8230; Another reason why it is really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obese women warned of poor infant health</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visit my website to explore home birth, hospital birth and Medicare-funded private midwifery care. Link Women with weight problems, particularly those dealing with obesity, are warned of the possible pregnancy risk and health concerns for their future babies. Babies born to mothers who were obese in early pregnancy have a much greater risk of dying before, during, or up to one year after birth &#8230; The risk of a baby dying in the womb (fetal death) or up to one year after birth (infant death) was twice as high among women who were obese (BMI of 30 or more) in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maternal Obesity May Lead To Infertility In The Next Generation</title>
		<link>http://www.sydneymidwife.com.au/2011/03/maternal-obesity-may-lead-to-infertility-in-the-next-generation/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=maternal-obesity-may-lead-to-infertility-in-the-next-generation</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MEDICARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR MIDWIFERY CARE THROUGH THIS SERVICE! Want to know more about home birth, hospital birth or Medicare-funded private midwifery care? Email Melissa Maimann or call 0400 418 448. Link Levels of the hormone ghrelin are low in obese women and a recent study &#8230; reports that mice whose mothers had low ghrelin levels were less fertile due to a defect in implantation. &#8230; ghrelin [has] been shown to regulate reproductive function in animals and humans &#8230; &#8230; results suggest that low ghrelin levels could program the development of the uterus in the female children of obese women. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weight Worries For Mother-To-Be</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MEDICARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR MIDWIFERY CARE THROUGH THIS SERVICE! Want to know more about home birth, hospital birth or Medicare-funded private midwifery care? Email Melissa Maimann or call 0400 418 448. Link Being seriously overweight during pregnancy increases dangers for both mother and unborn child, but little is being done to help obese mums-to-be &#8230; &#8230; maternal obesity has more than doubled over the last two decades with one in six pregnant women now facing extra risks to themselves and their babies. More than half the women who die in pregnancy or childbirth are obese or overweight and being seriously [...]]]></description>
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