Gynecology

Diabetic women who get pregnant are three to four times more likely to have a child with birth defects than other women

Drastic changes in diet boost a woman's chances of giving birth into her 40s and 50s, the Daily Telegraph reported.

Twins for a 70-year-old? Louise Brown's doctors didn't envision this

When the baby is in the mother's uterus, it can't eat or breathe on its own, so it needs some help...more...

Ovulation occurs though a sequence of hormonal responses...more...

The placenta provides the baby with nutrients and oxygen from the mother and carries away fetal waste...more...

The growing embryo requires nutrition and oxygen, and a disposal system for the waste products of its own metabolism. All of this is accomplished by the placenta, which allows the growing embryo to eat...more

Hypertension caused by pre-eclampsia can adversely affect the fetus by causing constriction of the placental arteries. Arterial constriction may result in severe reduction..more...

A woman is born with all of the egg cells she will release throughout her lifetime. Starting at about age 12 through menopause, a woman's reproductive cycle releases an egg about once a month...more...