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Pregnancy
- Healthiest babies are born to women who gain
at least 35 pounds during pregnancy. [National
Academy of Sciences]
- The average expectant mother gains 22 pounds.
Loses 13.5 within an hour after delivery. Sheds
another 3.5 during the next 12 days. And six weeks
later weighs 17.75 pounds less than she weighed
at start of labor.
- Children conceived during cool months average
slightly higher on IQ tests than those conceived
during warm months.
- The saline content of amniotic fluid is the same
as the oceans.
- The skin of an unborn baby, if cut by a surgical
incision, heals without a scar.
- Unborn babies dream.
- Expectant mothers who suffer that deep discomfort
called morning sickness early in pregnancy are
less likely to give birth prematurely.
- Dosing pregnant women with vitamin B-6 stops
them from having morning sickness.
- A woman over age 40 is 128 percent more likely
to bear a left-handed child.
- A woman is more susceptible to sunburn when she's
pregnant than at other times.
- Couples are more likely to continue to have children
if they have only girls.
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