If you’re trying to get pregnant, make sure you don’t have gum disease, researchers have warned. Periodontal disease, a gum infection, is believed to delay conception by 2 months, a fertility conference was told.

Doctors believe that inflammation, caused by oral bacteria, may have a knock-on effect on tissues in ...  Continue reading

There’s been a dramatic baby boom during the last decade, and leading experts have speculated that Tony Blair is the cause.

Not literally of course, but according to a new report, there was a sudden rise in Britain's fertility rate during the years when Blair was in power.

In the mid-1960s the average ...  Continue reading

Further investigation into how pregnant women’s sleeping positions affect their unborn babies has been called for. A very small new study has linked sleeping on your back or right hand side to an increased risk of stillbirth, reports the BBC.

In the original study, pregnant women’s sleeping positions were compared to the ...  Continue reading

A new campaign telling pregnant women to avoid alcohol is being backed by the world's biggest spirits company.

It seems each week there's new advice directed at women about the dangers of drinking during pregnancy. Everything from the fact that alcohol could effect your unborn baby's fertility, to research that said that ...  Continue reading

Schoolgirls have dangerously low level of iodine, which could put their future children at risk, a new survey has revealed. Researchers say the lack of iodine could be because the consumption of milk has plummeted in the last few years, reports the Daily Mail.

The survey, published in The Lancet Medical Journal, ...  Continue reading

A new mum has caused controversy by claiming her 45-a-day smoking habit during her pregnancy was actually “good” for her baby.

On BBC3’s shock real life show Misbehaving Mums-to-be, mum Charlie Wilcox, 20, claimed her smoking made “the baby use its heart on its own in the first place, so that when ...  Continue reading

Pregnant women who have the flu vaccine during the flu season could be less likely to give birth prematurely or to low birth weight babies.

A new study, published by PLoS Medicine, showed that mums-to-be who had the flu jab and gave birth during flu season were 40% less likely to ...  Continue reading

Obese pregnant women at Liverpool Women’s Hospital will be given the diabetic drug, Metformin, to reduce blood sugar levels passed onto their babies in the womb.

Although the drug won’t help the mums themselves lose weight, the three-year study hopes to tackle obesity rates and reduce the number of difficult births and ...  Continue reading