Perhaps the most noticeable aspect in the early days of your pregnancy is the change in your breasts. Even while the fertilised egg implants itself in the uterus and develops into an embryo, your breasts begin to change in appearance. At first, you will notice that your breasts seem tender and soft to the touch. […]
Being pregnant is a wonderful experience in itself, but when you’re expecting twins, the joy is (literally) twofold! Being pregnant with twins is twice the fun of a normal pregnancy – you will get much bigger, your babies will kick in tandem and you will have two bundles of joy after nine months. But how […]
Are you impatient to get pregnant? While it may seem like the impending happy news takes its own time in coming, you will be pleased to know that there are ways to speed up the pregnancy process! There isn’t anything extraordinary you need to do, but a few basic steps will get you well on […]
Your pregnancy is not just about the growth of your precious baby in your womb. It is also about the many changes that your body undergoes and eventually adapts to. Just like bloating, tenderness in the breasts and water retention, another sign of pregnancy is abdominal and leg cramps. These can begin early in the […]
What is Prenatal Infection? Prenatal infection is triggered because of a bacteria or virus that gets passed from a mother to her baby during the time of pregnancy or delivery. Prenatal infections comprise of bacterial or viral illnesses, which gets passed from a mother to her baby while the baby is in uterus, during delivery, […]
The steady rise in incidence of childhood cancers all over the world, has necessitated the need for urgent curative treatments. Developing cancer at any stage of life is a frightening prospect, but it is doubly traumatic when children develop cancer. The disease can often have fatal consequences in the very young – in India, cancer […]
Cancer has been one of the most challenging diseases human race has ever dealt with. Every year on the 4th of Feb we put the spotlight on Cancer and try and educate people about the illness through creating awareness and dispelling myths that surround cancer. World Health Organisation has confirmed that cancer is one of […]
Zika virus belongs to the virus family Flaviviridae & the genus Flavivirus. The virus is spread through daytime-active Aedes mosquitoes, namely A. aegypti. The virus causes mild illness known as Zika fever in humans, and since 1950s it has been known to occur within a thin equatorial belt from Africa to Asia. In 2014, the […]