NEW YORK -- Amid the purveyors of belly casts and placenta pills, sonogram art and cord banks at a recent baby gear extravaganza stood a smiling Rosie Pope, pregnancy advice guru, mommy concierge to the rich and, with any luck, the Martha Stewart of maternity.
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Anxiety is not only the most common mental problem in the United States, it verges on a national obsession.
Last year, New York Magazine declared it the signature diagnosis of our time with Xanax as its pharmacological mascot, taking over from depression and Prozac in the 1990s. The New York Times devotes an entire ongoing series to...
A new study shows that, among pregnant and postpartum women with sepsis, death rates and the severity of the illness are on the increase.
The study, presented at the 2012 annual Anesthesiology meeting, reports that more than 30 percent of mothers who develop sepsis will experience some kind of organ dysfunction.
To determine the...
WESTPORT, Connecticut — An heir to the British throne is on the way — and Americans may be as enthralled as the Brits.
This former colony has been riveted by the royal news that the former Kate Middleton is pregnant — perhaps as much as Britain, where such regal developments are taken in stride.
“We don’t really have a princess...
BALTIMORE — Before Aiesha Eddins got pregnant, she didn’t give much thought to her diet.
“I ate whatever,” said the 27-year-old Owings Mills, Md., woman. “We ordered take-out.”
But when she weighed in at 220 pounds during her initial prenatal visit, she quickly earned a spot at the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Nutrition in Pregnancy...
