There’s a dirty little secret about pregnancy that might be left out of your prenatal class, and it’s got nothing to do with tips on what to pack in your hospital bag. It’s that for some women, being knocked up sends their libidos into overdrive. Lauren Byrne says that her first...
Through its placenta, the fetus pumps the mother's arteries with hormones that keep them open to provide a permanent flow of nutrient-rich blood. A fetus with such unrestricted access can manufacture hormones to increase the mother's blood sugar, dilate her arteries, and inflate her blood ...
Interestingly enough, licking their young can also help mammals protect their offspring from predators as well. Human mothers don't need to do any of this for a number of reasons, including the fact that humans have evolved to clean with their hands and not their tongues. Why Animals Lick ...
Consuming the placenta after birth is a seemingly modern trend that we tend to think crunchy mommas and celebrities choose to do to be different or something. But there are always many women who wouldn’t consider themselves crunchy and aren’t celebrities who are choosing to use this new tren...
Putative stem cells with an embryonic character isolated from the ovarian surface epi- thelium of women with no naturally present follicles and oocytes. Differentiation 2008; 76: 843–856. 57 Kucia M, Reca R, Campbell FR, Zuba-Surma E, Majka M, Ratajczak J et al. A population of very ...
Why do some women crave salt during their menstruation or pregnancy? Why is this phenomenon not universal? Explain the growth hormone. a) Define allometric growth and explain growth impetus. b) Explain how allometric growth relates to the postnatal growth of muscle, fat and bone. ...
Most women cannot control their estrogen levels, even when they try to address all contributing factors. Hormones need time to adjust and it happens faster for some women than others. 2. Physical Changes After Birth Not only do women undergo hormonal changes, but the body that they have after...
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We inhabit a plastic-laden world where plastic fragments into minuscule pieces, rather than decomposing. These plastic particles have been discovered by scientists in various human organs such as the lungs, liver, placenta, breast milk, and blood. How harmful are these microplastics to our health?
While many women may decide to have a C-section for different reasons, others may plan to have a vaginal birth only to find that their plan has to change. Duringlaboror delivery, your doctor might decide that you need to have a C-section right away. This can be a sudden change if yo...