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Understanding your Menstrual Cycle
By Susan Lee on 24/04/2009 10:25:11
All the phases of your monthly cycle, explained
regular of women can experience unusually long cycles, usually when stress or a similar issue has delayed ovulation.Your menstrual cycle’s stagesYour menstrual cycle is split into two main parts:The first is the follicular, or oestrogenic, phase from your
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Six things you never knew about your toddler
By Viki Wilson on 20/04/2009 15:48:51
Find out what you still have to discover about your toddler.
linguistic phase and they can’t understand that the term should only apply to one man. So they try it out on various men until they understand the word has a specific meaning for just one person. They can do this with the word ‘mummy’ too. But if you
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Spain’s first family or the Addams family?
By Tessa Watkins on 30/09/2009 15:00:28
Spanish prime minister’s gothic daughters meet the Obamas
the snaps from the White House Flickr online gallery. It’s nice to know even prime minister’s children aren’t exempt from going through tricky teenage phases while growing up!
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Meningitis B vaccine breakthrough
By Made For Mums on 15/05/2008 17:55:00
Children could be given a meningitis B vaccine within three years after scientists revealed a breakthrough.
.Yesterday, doctors involved in the development of a possible vaccine by the Swiss company Novartis told a meeting in Graz, Austria, they had successfully concluded phase II trials in 150 babies in the UK and had moved on to large-scale trials that will show whether
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Sleeping helps you think
By Cassandra Kempster-Roberts on 10/06/2009 14:57:51
A nap can boost your ability to think laterally.
problem often results in finding a solution, and that this is increased when you experience REM sleep, a phase of sleep that mostly happens just before you wake up. REM sleep helps the brain make links between subjects that seem unrelated. In the study
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More broody celebrities! Fergie and Kimberley Walsh talk babies
By Kyrsty Hazell on 09/12/2009 15:04:25
Black Eyed Peas singer wants a pea in the pod and Girls Aloud gal wants lots
-term boyfriend, Justin Scott, the 28-year-old popette is hoping that babies will be on the agenda soon.“I’m broody at the moment, we both are,” she told the Daily Mail. “I’m excited about that phase of my life and feel I’m ready – I want lots!”There seems
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The Pill could change our taste in men
By Cassandra Kempster-Roberts on 08/10/2009 17:23:01
That little oral contraceptive pill could be doing more than preventing pregnancy – it could affect who you’re attracted to!
to men and your perception of attraction change depending on the phase of your menstrual cycle you’re in. Right before ovulation, you’re more attractive to the opposite sex – and you also find more ‘manly’, dominating and competitive men appealing. If you
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John Terry and wife Toni planning baby no 3?
By Kyrsty Hazell on 15/02/2010 11:54:56
Despite those cheating allegations, the Premiership footballer and wife Toni are rumoured to be trying for a ‘band-aid’ baby
phase in our lives. John and I were talking about having another baby before all this happened – but we are more determined than ever now,” Toni told a friend, according the The People.The 29-year-old ex-England captain and former 'Dad of the Year' hit
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Chemicals in old furniture may make it tough to conceive
By Cassandra Kempster-Roberts on 27/01/2010 15:39:40
Used in the 1970s, the chemicals could mean it takes longer to fall pregnant
that while several types of PBDEs have been phased out, exposure to them is likely to continue for years. It’s hard to keep up with the ever-increasing list of chemicals in our environment, the researchers also said.Of the compounds now replacing PBDEs
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BPA bottles and your baby
By Kate Ironside-Smith on 27/04/2009 11:51:46
Why is there a concern about the chemical BPA in plastic baby bottles?
claims that it causes carcinogenic or mutagenic effects or damages reproductive systems. In any event, the extent to which children are exposed to it in the first place is extremely tiny.”BPA should be phased out, says environmental campaigner Elizabeth
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