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Every time we have access to more education about preventing unwanted pregnancy, and also more contraceptive options. Some of them are emergency only, such as morning-after pill.

The morning-after pill as its name suggests is a pill that women should eat after having unsafe sex, can take up to 72 hours. If the pill is taken 24 hours before its effectiveness is better.

Using the pill constantly can cause serious problems for our health.

This pill is a mixture of hormones that alter the female reproductive cycle, thus preventing the fertilization takes place. Although its efficiency is close to 100% we should be aware that this is not a contraceptive, most if not emergency remedy.

This pill prevents an unwanted pregnancy but does not protect us from sexually transmitted infections can also cause side effects such as dizziness, headache, nausea, pain in lower abdomen, increased breast tenderness, delayed rule, fatigue, diarrhea and even vomiting, these symptoms can occur up to 24 hours after taking the pill.

In Spain, this pill could be obtained without a prescription at any pharmacy in March 2009. There is also the pill 5 days, which does require a prescription.

No matter what the reasons that leads us to use this pill. What matters is that we use once, this does not cause any problems because our cycle is adjusted again.
But it is also important to know that you should not use the morning after pill so often, as doing so may be affected our hormones have more serious problems like the absence of menstrual period or inadequate growth of the endometrium.

When a woman is to be a mommy, generally the future daddy takes care of one so extreme that almost does not let you do anything for fear they get to spend some serious consequences.

Of course we must be vigilant in addition to having regard to the mom, in the sense of avoiding efforts too big with our timely assistance. But we must also be clear that during the period of gestation, the pregnant woman must perform certain techniques of exercise for your body does not lose the elasticity needed.
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The diet of the pregnant affects the baby s health

It’s nothing new that the power of the mother influences the development of the baby, so it is advisable to eat a healthy diet, but a new study by researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia gives us new data about how the pregnant diet influences the health of the unborn baby.

The study examined the effect of a diet rich in fat, the other rich in carbohydrates and a balanced finding that each caused different gene expressions in the placenta of pregnant rats.
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The ectopic pregnancy is a form of ectopic pregnancy, which means that the fertilized egg has taken up residence outside the womb. The most common type of ectopic pregnancy is the so-called ectopic pregnancy. In rare cases the egg firmly in the cervix or in the free abdominal cavity.

In an ectopic pregnancy can initially all the symptoms of normal term pregnancy. Examples include the lack of accrual, nausea or breast tenderness. Unclear, mostly one-sided abdominal pain, bleeding or a persistent dizziness may be an indication of a pregnancy outside the womb.
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The psychological or imaginary pregnancy can be a very intense desire to be provoked to conceive a son to a child. The mind can not able to influence the body, it is what we call, what psychosomatisc. If a woman seeking to become pregnant, and this does not come or had some miscarriage, he can develop coats of high anxiety state.

The employment have it, no son to be able, may become so great that I have affected the physical condition of the mental state of confusion as anxiety or depression developing. Sometimes there are women who are able to really believe that they are pregnant, without being so, it is what a psychological pregnancy or if pseudocesis been mentioned.
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Currently there are no technological impediments to perform an ultrasound on the patient’s home. With the advent of new and modern ultrasound machines have been small and portable models without compromising the quality so the images obtained on conventional fixed appliances.

It is important to remember that ultrasound is an operator-dependent diagnostic method par excellence, because it is done in real time and dynamically.

The clinical pictures that require the ultrasound home are many and varied but generally this application is subject to the medical indication of complete rest and / or inability to transfer or ambulation of the patient

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