Pregnancy Wisdom Questioned: Are Alcohol, Caffeine Really Off Limits?

Why one high school student faked her own pregnancy

Donnica Moore, president of Sapphire Womens Health Group. Anything that the mother ingests goes through the placenta and the blood stream to the fetus. ABC senior medical contributor Dr. Jennifer Ashton agrees there are many factors to take into consideration when making these decisions while pregnant. In general, its very important for people to understand theres a lot more to practicing medicine than crunching numbers, Ashton explained. What are the risks are doing something?
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Women Need to ‘Lean In’ to Pregnancy Too

Related Stories President Obamabodyguardswon’t be disarming despite petition If you asked her friends and family members, Gaby Rodriguez was going to be a teen mom. That was the expectation. That was the inevitable reality for many young Latinas in her Toppenish, Wash., community, including her sisters. And for nearly seven months, they were right. Rodriguez was pregnant on her way to teen parenthood, and she hadn’t yet graduated from high school. Except none of it was true.
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And yet when it comes to pregnancy, these same women often passively accept the conventional wisdom. They microwave their deli meats and switch to decaf. They avoid rare steak, and they do whatever kind of prenatal testing their doctor suggests. Pregnancy is among the most important and meaningful experiences many of us will ever have, and yet we are not asking the questions, not looking for the real facts about it, not participating in the major decisions. Ladies, we need to lean in to our pregnancies too. (MORE: Why I Want Women to Lean In, by Sheryl Sandberg ) Its not just our fault.
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