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Herbs that help prevent nausea during pregnancy
For many women, fatigue is the first sign of pregnancy followed by morning sickness. Morning sickness is most common between fourth to fourteenth weeks of pregnancy and is more often experienced while rising, thus the term morning sickness, but one can experience nausea at any time.
Vitamin D in pregnancy may help prevent childhood obesity
A recent study of vitamin D levels in pregnant women has revealed a remarkable finding. Children born from women with lower vitamin D level during pregnancy, increase body fat later during their childhood compared to those children whose mothers had higher vitamin D level.
Developing Taste in the Womb
They say “you are what you eat” and the recent research reveals that so is your baby. In fact, the food that a pregnant women eats not only reach the baby through her interconnected bloodstream, but it also changes the flavor of the amniotic fluid that the baby swallows.
Intelligence is Largely Genetic
Scientists have discovered that a child’s ability to think and solve problem is a complex structure of small genetic components. Recently, researchers have learnt that intelligence is approximately 50% genetic and the intricacy of its makeup is not controlled by just one or two genes.
