You get to do the usual general surgical procedures, which is bowel surgery with its many variations. You get to deal with orthopaedic cases. And you get to deal with obstetric emergencies. For me, the latter was the least familiar. As general surgeons, we don’t get that much training in obstetrics and gynaecology anymore. I […]
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As a half-Asian woman married to a French man, I appreciate how different countries and cultures have different attitudes to being a woman and in particular, the focus and extent to which we look after our bodies after having a baby. We focus so much on giving birth and too often forget the changes our […]
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2016 has been an incredible year for new advances in fertility and pregnancy planning. The rise of technology, new insights and knowledge, together with better regulation, means that women are now in a position to better understand their bodies which means they can more accurately plan, prevent and monitor pregnancies, identify potential fertility problems and, […]
Scans are used in pregnancy to determine the growth and health of the foetus. Ultrasound measurements have been commonly used to detect fetal macrosomia, when a baby in the womb is significantly larger than average. It can be hard to accurately tell a baby’s weight from the size of a mother’s tummy during pregnancy. Women […]
Midwifery has a very important role to play in helping to solve some really big problems that affect women and their babies around the world. It is estimated that nearly 300,000 women die every year during pregnancy, childbirth or soon after. About 2.6 million women suffer stillbirths, and almost 3 million infants die in the […]
Women who have had their appendixes removed are actually more likely to conceive a child afterwards, rather than less. This is what our latest large-scale study, published in the journal Fertility and Sterility, has found which flies in the face of the classic view that appendectomies harm a woman’s chance of having a baby because they […]
Mums are choosing to have their babies later in life. As a GP, I see a growing number of women in their 30s and 40s who are expecting their first child, or hoping to have a child of their own. Many are professional women who have put their careers first but are now ready to start a family. Of […]
As well as being sweet and juicy, the world’s most popular berry is said to do wonders for your health. Traditionally, strawberries, which contain more Vitamin C than the equivalent weight of oranges, have been used to cleanse the digestive system. They also contain a range of phytonutrients, which have a range of health-boosting effects. “Strawberries can legitimately claim […]
Results of our research have shown that babies born to mothers with gestational diabetes have more body fat at two months of age compared to babies born to healthy mothers. The study used MRI scanning to measure body fat in 86 babies – we took these readings shortly after birth, and again when the babies […]
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Every single human is the product of a pregnancy, yet pregnancy has not been a traditional focus in philosophy. My study will investigate important, but previously unexplored, philosophical questions about childbearing: whether foetus and mother are one single organism or two separate organisms, and the nature of the relationship between the pregnant organism and the later […]
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