When Preethi Kamath came in for her first antenatal appointment, she was worried about her first trimester diet.
“The women in my family gave me a whole list of foods I was told to completely avoid” she said. “Seafood, cheese, meat, raw vegetables, and even some fruits! So that narrowed down my choices considerably.
With some of the misinformation and misunderstandings surrounding vaccinations during pregnancy, our consultants see and resolve a lot of confusion from expecting parents. Typically, the concerns are related to how safe vaccinations are and how they will affect the baby’s development.
Take, for instance, Shruti Saini, who began consulting at Sitaram Bhartia for her first pregnancy.
“I wish I hadn’t lost my first baby” Seema told us tearfully. “I don’t know how things went so wrong, but one day I was pregnant and the next day I wasn’t.”
Seema Sharma, a 32-year old woman, had been trying to have a baby for 4 years. During this time,
Congratulations! You’ve just discovered you’re pregnant and amidst all the excitement and happiness, you’re also probably wondering about all the pregnancy lifestyle changes you need to make now.
While you do need to be careful about your caffeine, alcohol and calorie intake, most of your pregnancy will not require any special “treatment”. You’re stepping into a natural process and if your pregnancy is progressing normally,
Because of the rising caesarean sections in Delhi, chances are that most of your family, friends and peers have also had one. In fact, caesarean deliveries are now so common, they’ve become the new normal, which has given rise to some myths about normal deliveries.
Caesarean deliveries are the reason that many apprehensions exist about vaginal deliveries.
Until fairly recently, obstetricians were in favour of routinely giving episiotomies to labouring women during childbirth. However, the WHO guidelines clearly state that episiotomies should not be routinely performed.
If you’re keen to have a normal delivery, you should know when you might require an episiotomy, what it entails and how long the recovery and healing process can take.
Would you hop on to an 8-hour flight if it meant you could try for a normal delivery? Priyanka Singh, who was diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM), did exactly that.
Priyanka and her husband, Arun, work at the Indian Embassy in Cairo and when she entered her seventh month, they made the decision to fly back to Delhi for her delivery.
High levels of air pollution can have an adverse effect in pregnancy. In a city like Delhi – which is amongst the most polluted cities of the world – the high levels of pollutants in the air are a grave concern.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), poor air quality is directly linked with risks of stroke,
When Divya Singh went for an ultrasound in her 37th week, she was told that she should have an elective cesarean section because her baby had a double loop of cord around neck. She couldn’t help wondering ‘Is normal delivery possible with cord around the neck?’.
If you ask Viji Vijayan about her birthing experience, perhaps your first reaction to her story will be full of surprise. We don’t meet too many mothers who stay so zen when their labour begins with their water breaking.
“I woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and all of a sudden my water broke.