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Latest News Snippets: Pregnancy

Pregnancy Rewires the Entire Body

Pregnancy doesn’t just make your heart beat more or increase your blood volume – it “dramatically rewires every major organ” in the body.

Black Women Less Likely to Get Epidurals

A study in Obstetrics & Gynecology finds that Black women are “about 10 percent less likely to receive [an epidural] during labor” when compared with white women.

Becoming a Mom at 45

 A lovely, thought-provoking essay from writer Laura Barton on unexpectedly becoming a mom at 45, after years of trying through miscarriages and fertility treatments.