- Monday, June 21, 2010, 15:25
- Health
It appears that some fathers are bound to share post-natal depression with their wives, a new study reveals.
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- Monday, May 31, 2010, 13:36
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Pregnancy is the time where you undergo mood swings. A lot of women experience this during their pregnancy at one time or the other. Mood swings generally occur due to a variety of reasons like the hormonal changes, stress, changes in the metabolism and fatigue.
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- Monday, April 19, 2010, 7:42
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Australian researchers discovered that you can increase your baby's sleep duration by 30 per cent by letting your baby cry it out.
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- Monday, March 8, 2010, 2:44
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Pregnancy may be accompanied by bouts of depression in many women, but treatment should be undertaken with much care, because antidepressants interfere with the proper development of the fetus, as revealed by a recent study.
"The results of our study suggest an effect of antidepressant exposure on fetal brain development," lead researcher Lars Henning Pedersen warns in ...
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- Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 17:34
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A recent research showed that certain antidepressants can adversely affect breastfeeding, delaying the production of milk for quite long periods, in some cases reaching to 72 hours.
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- Friday, January 15, 2010, 14:42
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A study by American scientists on how the capacity for creativity and affective disorders are linked revealed the depression-prone parents are more likely to have a genius child compared to optimists, reports the Psychological Science.
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- Monday, December 21, 2009, 12:04
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Although nowadays the issue of dangers that taking certain drugs poses for pregnant women is often brought up, it remains a pressing one since many expectant moms continue to take medicines without giving a thought to their possible pernicious effect on the fetus.
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- Friday, October 30, 2009, 7:39
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Experts raise the alarm: children are turning into sex objects at preschool age. By age six, girls need branded clothes, at seven they want their hair styled, at eight they start dieting, and by eleven they engage in sexual contacts or sexually explicit conversations.
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- Thursday, October 8, 2009, 9:34
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If an expectant mom takes antidepressants during first three months of pregnancy, her baby may be born with heart defect, with the risk increasing by 80 per cent. If she takes more than one antidepressant, the risk quadruples. The so called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are usually prescribed to those suffering from depression. The most recognizable of those is Prozac.
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- Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 5:51
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There exist many studies dealing with the use of antidepressants in pregnancy. Some of them lay stress on the dangers imposed on the unborn babies, for some antidepressants have been discovered to make women more vulnerable to the risk of preterm delivery or miscarriage, and baby having low birth weight. The baby may develop certain heart defects under the influence of antidepressants.
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- Friday, August 28, 2009, 16:14
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Contrary to what some people think, moodiness, despondency and depression are not symptoms of the adult life with its hardships. A new study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry shows that depression may assault us starting from the tender age of three.
Furthermore, it may deepen and even become a chronic state of mind.
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- Thursday, August 13, 2009, 6:32
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Regular afternoon nap can help ease such problems in children as hyperactivity, anxiety and depression. Recent studies provided the evidence for that claim.
The results of a study among 62 children aged 4-5 years old, presented at the annual Associated Professional Sleep Societies meeting in Seattle, pointed that a day regimen with the room for an afternoon nap is a good thing for a child’s psyche.
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