Laura Glynn, a psychologist from Chapman University in California, has held a number of studies that prove the idea that pregnant women do suffer from short-term memory loss, and the brain as if focuses on the needs of the child, while everything else is in the background.

Especially if it is not the first pregnancy, expectant mothers know that it is this temporary happy condition which makes them extremely forgetful. They can fail to remember what they have been doing, where they have put the car keys, what day of the week it is. But it does not matter, and neither the pregnant woman, nor the people around her should be scared by it. Be sure the “brain will get back in its place” exactly at the moment when the baby is born. One will need extreme concentration, good reaction and endurance, so the body is prepared in advance by accumulating energy.

Dr. Glynn explains that these changes make a woman absent-minded, forgetful and extremely sensitive. They can be caused by hormonal changes in her body, by the moving of the fetal cells into the mother’s bloodstream (the scientists believe that these cells are attracted to certain brain areas), and the movements of the fetus. And even if the child moves almost imperceptibly, any change in the position of its body increases the heart rate of the expecting mother. In addition, pregnancy is a critical period for the development of the central nervous system of the woman, but, unfortunately, the scientists do not know practically anything about it. The only thing we can say for sure is that all these components taken together affect the pregnant woman’s brain, making it so… “absent-minded”.

The article is devoted to Kate’s happy marriage with Prince William. The duchess also jokes about the boom of the news around her pseudopregnancy.

The public is very concerned about the health of the heir’s to the British crown future mother. Before the wedding, Kate Middleton used to have the British 10th size, but the tedious preparation for the wedding and all the experiences have contributed to her rapid weight loss. Now Kate is wearing size 6. The supporters of the Duchess are seriously worried whether the 30-year-old Kate is able to give birth to a healthy baby.

A source in the British media reports that Kate is actively involved in sports in order to “build muscle”, after she was criticized for being too thin in her arms and legs. They say that at school Kate was much mocked at because of her being skinny, and that is why Kate is still incredibly shy.

This will be the third child for the Capshaw-Gavigan family. They already have 4-year-old son Luke Hudson and 14-month-old daughter Eve Augusta. The actress’s hubby, Christopher Gavigan, used to be CEO with Healthy Child Healthy World and set up The Honest Co.

Capshaw, 35, shared on Tweeter their “profound happiness and sheer delight” at the news of her pregnancy, and Gavigan chimed in posting they “are thrilled.”

On Monday the Nothin’ Better to Do singer for the umpteenth time asked some of her fans to “stop discussing my ovaries,” adding that she had never attempted to conceive. In her opinion, conception often comes a great problem for couples, some of which have to go on trying for a long time and fail.

The Grammy-winning artist confessed the ongoing pregnancy rumors make her feel confused – although she would often laugh at some nitwit speculations she read. She believes it’s a crazy game to concoct articles and false news out of nowhere.

Rimes, 29, is 10-month-long wife to her Northern Lights costar Cibrian, 38, who has two sons, Mason and Jake, from his previous marriage to Brandi Glanville. While she is childless, she is taking care of his children looking upon them as her own.

Not that she is all out to replace their mother, as the country singer explained in her blog last September. But raising children “in a loving, safe and proper environment” is always one of a woman’s chief issues.

Her husband, she wrote, had wanted her to regard them as a family from the beginning, and she had grown to consider Ciprian’s boys as part of her family whom she is sharing with their biological mother – “and hopefully one day another wonderful man.”

The 36-year-old attracted the attention of the media due to her romantic liaisons with various celebrities including actor David Boreanaz and golfer Tiger Woods. Her other important relationship was an engagement to investment expert James Andrew O’Grady who perished in the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. It was the subject much discussed on VH1′s Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew on which she appeared in 2010-2011.

Uchitel’s previous marriage was to Steven Ehrenkranz, a Wall Street trader whom she had known since childhood, but they were together for four months only.

Speaking to Us Weekly about her marriage to Hahn she said they were happy and are “extremely fortunate to have one another.”

What Causes Heartburn in Pregnant Women?

Heartburn during the period of early pregnancy is associated with the gastrin hormone, which controls gastric secretion and has special receptors in the cerebral cortex. Elevated level of the gastrin hormone in the body is a person’s genetic feature. During pregnancy, gastric secretion may be increased, and heartburn will be the result of it.

Another reason is that mother and fetus are connected with an umbilical cord. The fetus produces gastrin, which makes the pregnant woman increase the production of gastric secretion. In this case, there also appears heartburn.

When having heartburn, it is necessary to:

• maintain frequent split meals
• avoid such foods as onions, garlic, sauces, fatty and spicy foods
• change the heat treatment of foods that cause heartburn.

Foods Causing Heartburn

Heartburn may also appear after eating such innocuous products as meat, chicken broth, and cabbage. At the same time, lemon is not the cause of heartburn.

Heartburn Treatment

To treat heartburn, antacid medicine is used. But the medication should be prescribed by a doctor. Therefore, if the fit of heartburn is very strong, you should ask for professional help.

Some medicines may contain the substances that are potentially hazardous to the embryo development. The doctors advise to limit the use of a wide range of medicines during pregnancy. Over-the-counter drugs may contain up to six components that relieve the symptoms of cough, a runny nose, a headache, etc. Choose the drugs that contain the ingredients which remove only your specific symptom.

Also here are some tips for pregnant women about how to cure the common cold:

• Avoid decongestants in early pregnancy (oral taking). They are associated with the increased risk of abdominal wall defects in the fetus. Isotonic solutions in the form of a nasal spray are a good alternative.
• Some medicines contain herbal ingredients that have not undergone testing for use during pregnancy. Study the composition of the medicine carefully and address your physician for advice.
• Do not get too involved in taking the sprays that relieve pain in the throat. They often contain much sugar. Candies may contain zinc and vitamin C, but pregnant women are allowed to take only limited daily doses (80-100 mg of vitamin C and 11 mg of zinc).
• Ensure that cough syrup does not contain alcohol.

Finneran and her husband, actor Darren Goldstein, have son Ty who is 10 months old, and another one coming – also a boy, as they informed PEOPLE exclusively, due to arrive in June 2012. “Life could not be better right now,” the actress says. The expectant parents are excited at the idea to have two little ones in a row.

Goldstein, remembered for his roles in Damages and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and Finneran are husband and wife since August 2010, and aren’t they quick!

And that is because these expectant mothers were not at all prepared for what they will have to encounter with.

The film is based on the bestselling book by Heidi Murkoff, which tells about five couples, who go through all the difficulties and joys of pregnancy. Some of them decide to have children despite their age, some of them come to this decision spontaneously, and the others are aimed at adopting a child. What unites the characters is that they are making funny discoveries, while getting ready to become parents (one of them is the phrase uttered by the character of Cameron Diaz: “If I knew I was going to have a rack this gorgeous, I would have gotten knocked up years ago!”).

The cast of this romantic comedy is star-studded: the movie involves Jennifer Lopez, Brooklyn Decker, Rodrigo Santoro, Anna Kendrick, Chace Crawford, and Matthew Morrison. They all promise to please the audience with the film next May.

The 28-year-old Iraq war veteran shared with PEOPLE exclusively that he and Gonzalez-Jones had learned last week that they are going to have a girl – their first child together – late next spring. “We are over the moon,” says Martinez.

The couple met in 2008 when Martinez got a part to play on All My Children and Gonzalez-Jones was assisting the executive producer. They hit it off almost instantly, but first as friends. They stayed bosom friends for two years before they decided they could opt for more. According to Gonzalez-Jones, they proceeded smoothly without any hard-felt adjustment. “We just clicked right away,” she told PEOPLE.

Martinez says that he is going through psychological adjustment getting used to being a father. He finds it hard to take in all of the year’s surprises, blessings and opportunities. He calls Diana’s baby bump “the cutest thing ever” and is sure that 2012 is going to be even better for them than the passing year!

This is the conclusion made by Australian researchers from the Ramsay Health Care medical center after conducting a special study published in the Obstetrics & Gynecology journal.

As recommended by the US Institute of Medicine, the women with normal body weight should gain 11-15 kg during the period of pregnancy, the women with excess weight – 7-11 kg, and obese women – 9.5 kg.

However, for many pregnant women with evident signs of obesity it is useful to get rid of extra pounds rather than to gain weight during this period. This will not harm their health and the health of the child and will also reduce the risk of possible complications during pregnancy, such as diabetes and hypertension, associated with overweight.

The researchers have analyzed the data from four randomized clinical trials in which 537 pregnant women received advice on healthy eating and were told to keep daily records and count their calories. It was found that the pregnant women, who took care of their diet and controlled body weight, gained 6.4 kg less weight on average, compared with those, who did not. Also it has been revealed that a decrease in body weight during pregnancy causes no harm to the health of children.

According to Dr. Raul Artal, head of the department of obstetrics, gynecology, and women’s health at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, women with obesity can maintain body weight during pregnancy, or even lose up to 4 kg, without any damage to their health and that of a child.

The scientists do not advise pregnant women to have a strict diet. Instead, they recommend to consult a doctor and find the right diet and physical activity level.

Pregnancy is the perfect time to start a healthy lifestyle and approach healthy weight!

As they showed up for a routine check-up on Thursday wanting to learn the sex of their expected child, the doctor failed to detect a heartbeat and came to the conclusion that Michelle, 45, had suffered a miscarriage some time during her second trimester.

It was with a deep sadness that the couple returned home and informed their 19 children that the next child had perished – coming right after the evening that they spent discussing various names for the baby and eager to learn the baby’s sex.

Nevertheless, they are going to give the unborn a name after they get to know the sex and use it for a funeral service.

It was a bitter moment for Michelle and her husband when they had to break the news to the children. “They have all been so excited about this baby and looking forward to April coming around and having a new little one in our arms,” she recounted. But, she added, she and her family understand that the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, and the choice is up to Him.

Before that, the 19 Kids and Counting crowd had come through a medical trial that had hit their youngest, Josie, born about two years ago. It is also Michelle’s second miscarriage, the first one occurring during her second pregnancy. At the time they brought it down to oral birth control she was undergoing, which became one of the reasons Jim Bob and Michelle made up their minds that the number of kids they were to have should rest with God.

Podiatrists are unanimous: there should be a resolute ‘no’ to the heels! From the first day of diagnosed pregnancy, one should choose “orthopedic” types of shoes, such as sneakers with comfortable shock-absorbing soles, which smooth the way the body shakes while walking. High heels have a negative impact on the joints of the legs, the spine, and the uterus! Walking on high heels certainly increases the risk of edema, varicose veins, and leg pain. Moreover, irreversible changes in the joints can appear because of the sharply increasing weight during the second half of pregnancy. The pregnancy will be over, while the back pain and osteoarthritis of the knee will remain.

You will not be able to control the change of the center of gravity, when the belly will increase greatly, and the confidence in your stability will be reduced. At the same time, the likelihood of falls will increase even in the shoes without heels. You still cannot not feel all these inconveniences, simply because you have not gained much weight, and your figure has not changed much. Soon you will feel it all, so you’d better take care of your health in advance.

Finally, the main purpose of high heels – a beautiful silhouette and gait – becomes something unattainable at the later stages of pregnancy, and this advantage becomes totally perverted. Imagine a waddling “duck” walk of a pregnant woman with her back sharply drawn backwards to keep the center of gravity… and she is wearing high heels.

Vicki could not resist wearing studded heels even during the fourth pregnancy. The result was severe pain in her back, because of which she had to reduce her activity. After the birth of her daughter, she could not even stand during the first few weeks. However, two months later the incorrigible Vicki put on her studded shoes, took the newborn in her arms and went shopping.

The main problem is in the fact that many pregnant women might find this tendency very attractive. All the stars are doing it, after all! We hope that the unhealthy trend will come to naught.

Why Should Pregnant Women Exercise?

With regular physical activity during pregnancy, the level of endorphins increases, and they operate as natural analgesics in the body. Besides, regular moderate exercise helps the body recover faster after childbirth.

How to Start Pregnancy Exercising Correctly?

Of course, it is better to startphysical exercising before rather than during pregnancy in order to keep fit with the help of simple exercises while being in a family way. But, of course, you can start a new kind of physical activity during pregnancy after consulting the doctor.

What Sports to Choose during Pregnancy?

You can practice yoga and attend aerobics classes for pregnant women, but on condition that the program activities have been developed by a qualified instructor and are approved by the obstetrician-gynecologist, who observes you during pregnancy. Thus, you will rule out the occurrence of complications or their provocation.

Swimming has a particularly positive effect on the body during pregnancy. It is known that water soothes and relaxes. Since the weight of the body in water decreases, the growing fetus and the uterus become easier, so the pain in the back decreases, as well as the pressure on the joints.

Aqua Aerobics and Other Water Exercising during Pregnancy

Moderate swimming or aqua-aerobic exercises normalize blood flow, facilitate the blood flow to the heart, which has a beneficial influence on the pregnant woman in case of an increase in blood pressure. During the exercise, there is outflow of tissue fluid into the bloodstream, and then excess liquid is removed through kidneys, which decreases swelling. In addition, resistance to movement is 12 times higher in water, so the training of muscle fibers and joints is more intense, but the necessary sparing regimen is preserved, which, by the way, does not cause the increase of the body temperature.

4 Tips for Pregnant Women Going for Water Fitness

Generally recommended exercises in water usually mean orderly swimming for half an hour. They are just as effective and safe as the classes of aqua-aerobics or aqua-yoga under the supervision of an instructor, who has much experience in fitness programs for pregnant women. Also, one should always remember the traditional advice given by coaches and doctors:

• The optimal water temperature for the classes should be about 27-29° C because warmer water temperatures are harmful to the fetus.
• One needs to drink clean water before and after these exercises, because moisture is lost during any aerobic exercises, even in the pool.
• The planned expenditure of energy needs to be compensated, so one should better plan a meal 1 hour before the class.
• You should watch yourself carefully during a workout, because cool water extinguishes the sense of being tired which can contribute to fatigue.

As for the optimal level of physical activity, you should consult an experienced obstetrician-gynecologist.

Her boyfriend left her, when Jessica was in a family way. Eric Johnson clearly understood that the woman he was planning to marry was completely different from the one he had once seen. He was not ready to unite their lives in a marriage. The celebrity cannot believe it happened. It had been said earlier that the wedding ceremony was to take place in mid-November. However, Jessica would repeatedly postpone and even cancel the wedding. But in the end, she said that she was not ready to walk down the aisle with a big belly, so the celebration would be held after the birth of the baby.

Eric Johnson refused to sign the marriage contract a few times, explaining it by the fact that he believed in true love and did not want to sign it on paper, because he found the process sacrilegious. The person from the singer’s nearest surroundings said that she was greatly upset. It was important for her that the child would be born and raised in a nuclear family. The news of the singer’s pregnancy became known in September, but the star had long been concealing it, although the fans and admirers were convinced that she was pregnant. This was evidenced by the singer’s rounded belly. Postponing the wedding had already testified to the fact that the life of the celebrity couple was not going smoothly. However, the future newlyweds said that Jessica was very tired because of the preparations and wanted to postpone the ceremony for an indefinite period of time.

Apparently, the girl will have to raise the baby alone. The young man confessed that making such a decision was not very easy. He explained his behavior by the fact that he had failed to experience a long-awaited true love. Jessica is frustrated and depressed, she took the separation with her beloved man close to her heart. Eric also said that Jessica was not the girl, with whom he was ready to have children. Before that, the singer had had no idea that this could happen. Jessica’s fans and admirers were very surprised by this turn of the events because Jessica and Eric had always been appearing together. They used to hold hands and smile sweetly. Nobody thought that this was the evidence of the imminent end of their relationship.

In fact, she can even be considered young in comparison with the new generation of parents, who prefer using reproduction methods and have their first-born babies in the age, when their peers are already nursing their grandchildren.

Getting Pregnant Despite Menopause

60-year-old Ann Maloney, the mother of two children (her elder daughter Isabella is 10 years old, and her younger daughter Lily is 7), gave an open-hearted interview to the New York Magazine telling about how her girls had been born. She met her second husband, John Ross, when she was 47, and a year later the spouses decided to have a child (a donor ovule was used for the conception). To have her second baby, Ann resorted to hormonal drugs and addressed the doctors, who managed to draw her out of the menopause. Today, the couple is happy, despite their age. The elderly parents say that they have enough strength and energy to raise both daughters.

Getting Pregnant at 53

A similar thing happened to a 53-year-old Kate Garros, who had lost her chance to become a mother at an early age. This story also involved a second marriage. Kate’s husband had been dreaming of having twins. The couple also used donor ovules for the IVF. Now, Alexandra and John have been making their mom and dad happy for seven years. However, the mother is now 61 years old, and she suffers from arthritis, which constantly reminds her of her age. From her personal experience, Kate says that people are baffled if you do not look like a typical mom, whom they expect to see.

Parents or Grandparents?

Fiona Palin from Los Angeles is 48 years old. Five months ago, she gave birth to a baby, Katherine. By that time, Fiona and her husband Nick had almost lost hope of ever becoming parents. It took them 10 years and 6 IVF attempts; three cases of pregnancy ended tragically. During the last attempt a frozen embryo was used. Fiona confessed of her thoughts that nothing would happen again, and they did not have any hopes left. But after nine months of an ‘ideal’ pregnancy, Catherine was born, and everyone would call her Kiki with affection. The baby is nearly six months old, and her mother still cannot quite believe that a miracle has happened.

Her husband is well aware of the fact that he could have been the grandfather of his daughter. He was not kidding when he said with irony that he did not have any grandchildren, so he decided to have his own child. He realizes the bitter truth that he can not be there when his daughter turns 30. His wife plans to send their daughter to a boarding school when she becomes a teenager, so that Kiki could have at least some “sisters”.

Here is how the psychologist Julianne Zweifel commented on the emerging tendency: “Children have the right for at least one parent alive and well.”

Why Are Pregnant Women “Getting Older”?

Mothers are getting older with every year. Over the past 10 years, the number of the women giving birth after 45 has increased more than twice in the USA. The number of those who gave birth after the age of 50 has increased by 375%. The reason for this rapid growth is the improvement of medical technologies, such as freezing of embryos, which allows women to postpone motherhood for the time being. Obstetricians and gynecologists claim that the biological age of many 50-year-old women is 10-15 years less than the real age, so they are fully capable to bear children. The studies have shown that those, who decide between pregnancy and career and prefer to pursue a career, postponing their pregnancy “for later times”, are wealthy, educated, and, consequently, physically healthier than their average statistical peers. Richard Paulson, fertility expert at the University of Southern California, says that these 50-year-olds are very young.

According to La Liberte Angel, who runs a California website for older mothers, women are too much under pressure which is often quite unreasonable. Women are expected to be responsible for the household duties, to earn money and to give birth within a certain period of time. However, the risks remain significant. Mothers aged 35 or more are 20% more likely to experience preterm labor, which leads to an increase in health problems for the child (the risk involves the lungs, the gastrointestinal tract and neurology, and the chances that the baby will be autistic also increase). However, the mothers themselves are having difficult times. Pregnant women, who are over 40, face the risk of preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, and hypertension. That is why many clinics, specializing in IVF, set strict age limitations.

What Makes Older Women Decide to Get Pregnant?

There is no doubt that getting pregnant is a balanced and deliberate decision. The children, who are born with “older” mothers, could hardly be more desired and loved. Sometimes their appearance can save a marriage that has been crumbling on the eyes, as if it were a house of cards. That is what happened with the relationship of John Travolta and Kelly Preston. After the death of the elder son, 16-year-old Jett (he had died of epilepsy in the Bahamas), the star couple was about to divorce. Fortunately, Ella Blue now has a younger brother Benjamin. The happy father says his son is so smart, cute, healthy, and wonderful. He is simply delighted with the kid, who “makes every day of his life better.”

The new meaning of life, no more and no less – that is what babies give their “adult” mothers.

Both mother’s and father’s smoking are dangerous for the unborn child. And if you still do not believe, Geniuspregnancy offers you the top 10 scientific facts about smoking before and during pregnancy.

1. Smoking reduces fertility in both men and women. After smoking for 5 years, a woman’s ability to conceive decreases by 14%, and that of a man reduces by 11%.
2. A male body removes nicotine faster, than that of a woman – in about 3 months. If you are planning to get pregnant, you and your man should stop smoking much earlier before that.
3. The women, who smoke, have a more difficult pregnancy, than those, who have never smoked or dropped before conception. Early toxemia, preeclampsia, varicose veins, constipation, and dizziness are consequences of smoking before and during pregnancy.
4. Vitamin C destroys much faster in the body of a smoking woman, which leads to its deficit. As a result, one suffers from metabolic diseases, low immunity, depression, and fatigue.
5. The women, who are smoking in the periconceptional period, face the 8 to10 times higher risk of miscarriage.
6. In the families, where one or both parents smoke, the children are twice more likely to suffer from pneumonia, bronchitis and asthma, and 6 times more likely to have gastro-intestinal diseases.
7. Smoking constricts blood vessels and violates the process of oxygen saturation in the blood. This is especially dangerous during pregnancy, because there must be a sufficient amount of oxygen in the blood of the mother for the proper development of the fetus.
8. The girls, whose mother was smoking during pregnancy, are more likely to suffer from infertility in the future.
9. The children of the mothers, who were smoking during pregnancy, are born with low birth weight and weak lungs.
10. As a result of the study, which had been lasting for 33 years, the scientists from the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden) found that those children, whose mothers had been smoking more than 10 cigarettes per day before the birth of the child, had the risk of diabetes increased by 4.5 times. And the risk of obesity was 34-38% higher than among those children, whose mothers had not smoked. These diseases were found in adolescence. The doctors say that smoking produces a toxic influence on the fetus and causes fetal malnutrition. Therefore, the child develops a tendency to accumulate fat.

So, lighting another cigarette, remember that parental smoking during pregnancy not only affects the baby here and now, but reveals itself in the child’s adult life, causing entirely unwanted health problems.

A couple of months ago, she confessed of eating coconut ice cream with a chili sauce and chocolate cookies with pickled cucumbers. Now she says that she can not live without… tomato ketchup:
“I do not know whether this is weird, but everything I am eating now, I eat with ketchup.
I used to like tomato sauce before pregnancy, but now I just can not live without it!
During breakfast, lunch or dinner – I do need a bottle of ketchup to be at hand all the time.”

Though the r’n'b-diva’s likes in food have changed, her passion for high heels and original shoes remains the same. Looking at some models that Beyonce prefers, it is unclear how one can move in them. And it is really a feat for a pregnant woman to do it. But is this feat necessary?

Her midsection has clearly become the center of her attention as Middleton was first spotted giving up on peanut paste, that famous no-no food for pregnant women, and then photos of her nursing her stomach appeared.

This week, while visiting a UNICEF distribution center in Copenhagen, Denmark, the royal wife was constantly touching and stroking herself around her waistline over the chic red coat she had on. The movements seemed so compulsive that it attracted other people’s attention.

As the UK Daily Mail reports from the words of a UNISEF event visitor, the 29-year-old’s hands kept returning to her stomach in gestures that the source called “very noticeable” and “very odd.” They looked uncontrollable, and the visitor noticed her cradling herself where the baby bump grows with both hands at once at a time.

William and Kate never denied they are planning to have kids. True, in his interview last November the Prince said they would be moving “one step in the time” and let the marriage state sink in first before proceeding to the children stage, but maybe the plans have changed?

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On Monday the news was finally revealed with Simpson announcing it via Tweeter (“I’m going to be a mummy!”) with a Halloween picture of herself in a cute mom image in which she caresses her prominent baby bump.

The 31-year-old has been known to say that she is dreaming of having a baby (her first!) by her fiancé Eric Johnson. So when, several weeks ago, pictures surfaced on the net showing the singer with a fuller waistline, speculations of her having gotten pregnant started to circulate. There were photographs at the airport where she was clearly making to protect her tummy. Another photo made in NYC where Simpson was wearing tight-fitting clothes also evidenced changes in her midsection.

Simpson’s parents Joe and Tina must be anticipating the newcomer, who will be their second grandchild. They have been grandparents since November 2008 when son Bronx was born to their daughter Ashlee Simpson and her husband (now divorced) Pete Wentz.

Jessica, engaged since last November, has been excited by the idea of starting a family with her lover man, who was with NFL, all this time.

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Previously, the scientists have been making statements that during the period of strong stress and crises boys are less likely to be born. For instance, this tendency was observed in America immediately after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Then the number of boys born in New York City reduced considerably. The same was observed in Germany in 1991, when the former GDR stepped into the period of economic decline and political chaos. Then there was a significant decline in the number of newborn boys.

The recent study not only states the fact, but explains it as well. The reason turns out to be in the increased level of the so-called stress hormone in pregnant women, cortisol in particular. The women, who had had a higher level of cortisol before pregnancy, more often gave birth to girls. High cortisol levels must in any way impede the implantation of male embryos in the uterus. But, of course, the process of determining the sex of the expected child is controled by the chromosome set in sperm, and this fact is never going to be disputed by scientists. In addition, male embryos are more prone to miscarriages, when cortisol levels are high.

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Neither must she have thought that immediately upon completing the Chicago Marathon she would be called upon to give birth to her child… But that’s exactly what happened.

Amber seemed to have completed the 26.2-mile stretch with no trouble at all, having outran her less burdened husband Joe Miller by a long chalk (she came 34,339th against his finishing 34,997th).

Her participation moved the audience to root for her with cries “Go pregnant lady” until she crossed the finish line, upon which feat she sat down to bite at her sandwich – but never finished it due to the onset of labors. She was whisked to the Central DuPage Hospital and delivered herself of daughter June, supposedly the first baby to ever have run a marathon!

June is the second child to the athletic Miller family.

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Dear pregnant women! There is another reason not to ignore doctors’ prescriptions about taking folic acid during the periods of conceiving and carrying a baby. The scientists have already proved that folic acid reduces the risk of certain birth defects.

And now we have a new research which involved 40 000 women. They were asked what vitamin supplements they had been taking as early as 4 weeks before the conception and during 8 weeks after it. Three years later, the same women had to deal with the tests about the development of their children.

It turned out that if the mother had taken folic acid during the described period, the delay of speech had been observed only in four cases per thousand children. And the babies of those mothers, who had not been taking folic acid, had nine cases of delay in speech development per thousand.

The scientists from Columbia University claim that folic acid should be taken by all women of reproductive age. That is why in the U.S. and Canada, most grain products are enriched with folic acid so that most pregnant women could have an opportunity to receive this important ingredient.

Recent studies prove once again that folic acid plays a very important role in the development of infants, whose health begins to be formed at the earliest stages of their mother’s pregnancy.

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Apparently, the singer’s smell has changed dramatically. In one of the interviews, the famous singer has admitted that she perceives all the smells. This is especially true of her husband. If suddenly he smells bad, Beyonce gets almost hysterical. Moreover, the celebrity no longer bears the smells of some perfumes, which her husband used to enjoy.

The celebrity couple remains enthusiastic about the fact that they are getting ready to become parents in the nearest future. They expect a girl to be born. Beyonce has already ordered pink bootees. Beyonce admitted that she had always known she would get pregnant at that age. However, the performer is in no hurry to leave the scene. Moreover, she has a lot of ideas that she wants to bring to life. The lady confesses that this is a great happiness to feel how a new life is growing inside. According to her, it is an unforgettable sensation.

Beyonce will be working till the last possible moment. The singer admits that she does not intend to take a maternity leave. She hopes to launch her own label soon. In addition, her plans include collecting a new team. According to her, it must be a boyband. Beyonce will personally conduct the audition and select the participants for her project. In addition, the performer is working on a new album, continuing to write songs. Beyonce also plans to use her talent of clip making to help other performers make videos.

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However, her financial situation does not allow her to come up with a decision on the serious issue. The 25-year-old actress says that her money is not enough to have a baby. Moreover, the actress admits that she does not know when she will possess enough to provide her child with a brighter future.

The girl believes that the time is still to come. So there is no need for haste and having children soon. Megan has a clear idea of what sum she must have to make a crucial step such as the birth of a child. The actress was disgracefully kicked out of the sensational blockbuster “Transformers 3″. The reason is simple. The woman dared to offend the director, Michael Bay, comparing him to the despot and tyrant Hitler. The producer of the project, Steven Spielberg, became enraged by what he heard and dismissed Fox without hesitation.

Megan has the experience in upbringing children. Just over a year ago, the actress accepted Brian Austin Green‘s marriage proposal. Now she helps her beloved to educate his nine-year-old son Cassius. The girl has easily found a common language with the boy. So there is no trouble for her to be a good mom of their own children in future. But now Fox is focused on her career rather than on the upbringing of children. And her talent is something to envy. The most recent movies which the actress starred in were “John Hex” and “Jennifer’s Body”.

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