‘I just wept’: Jodie Turner-Smith reveals she cried after giving birth to her first child Janie Jackson because her womb felt ’empty’ By Natasha Hooper For Mailonline Published: 12:02 BST, 2 April 2021 | Updated: 12:02 BST, 2 April 2021 Jodie Turner-Smith has revealed she wept after her first child, now 11 months, was born because … Read more
A stillborn foetus whose mother had coronavirus has died in the womb after being infected with the disease, Israeli doctors have said. A woman, who had been infected with Covid-19, was in her 36th week of pregnancy when she was admitted to Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba, Israel, after falling ill on Saturday. Doctors … Read more
Woman, 21, vows to raise £8,500 to fund a hysterectomy claiming she’s been left suicidal by agonising period pains that make her pass out Kacey Read, from Brighton, was just 12 when she first experienced period pains They left her involuntarily screaming, vomiting and sometimes unconscious Doctors tried birth control methods to manage pain but … Read more
Amazingly clear sonogram video shows an unborn beluga whale calf moving around in its mother’s womb Luna, 20, was born at SeaWorld San Antonio and is currently pregnant A recent sonogram shows an ‘amazingly clear’ footage of the unborn calf The fetus’ head, eye, mouth and upper body are visible in the sonogram The gestation … Read more
Woman, 39, reveals she had a complete hysterectomy to save her life after doctors mistakenly took her womb cancer for gluten intolerance and recommended she ‘eat yoghurt’ Dafina Malovska, 39, saw GP four times in four months due to bloating in 2014 Symptoms were dismissed as gluten intolerance and she was told to eat yoghurt Eventually saw private a … Read more
A mother is beaming as her daughter masters the art of walking despite being told by doctors that she’d be paralysed. Bethan Simpson, 27, from Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, says she could have fallen over with shock when she saw that her daughter, Elouise, now one, taking her first steps. After Eloise was diagnosed with spina bifida, … Read more
Type 1 diabetes could develop when babies are still in the WOMB, study finds Previously experts thought it only strikes when infants are older than six months But research found the autoimmune disease can develop before infants are born Breakthrough raises hope scientists will find new treatments for type 1 diabetes By Eleanor Hayward Health … Read more
Unborn babies could be at risk of catching COVID-19 in the womb at just two weeks old if their mother becomes infected, study claims Genes in two-week old embryos are designed to create proteins on cell surfaces These proteins include ACE2 receptor which coronavirus used to infect people Thought the virus could use this pathway to … Read more
Hope for women who are unable to get pregnant after scientists create an artificial womb in rabbits that is capable of supporting fertilisation, fetal development and live birth Researchers from the US demonstrated the viability of the procedure Uterine tissues were cultured and grown from the cells of the individual rabbits These were then seeded … Read more
Scientists discover a new type of contraction in pregnant women – and it can occur weeks before mothers-to-be go into labour Contractions were linked to pre-eclampsia, which can lead to pre-term babies Researchers from Nottingham University dubbed it the ‘uteroplacental pump’ They said that in healthy pregnancies, blood flows slowly through the placenta By Colin … Read more