The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has expanded its guidelines for depression screening, saying it is universally helpful to all U.S. adults over the age of 18, including pregnant and postpartum women. The panel says the benefits of treatment, even medication that may affect fetuses, far outweigh any potential risks.
How did you find out that you were going to be a dad? Perhaps certain physical or emotional changes in your partner gave you a hint, or possibly it came as a complete surprise. Maybe you and your partner had been trying to get pregnant and she showed you the positive results of her pregnanct test.
In the summer of 2015, an unusual story emerged that caught the attention of millions of people in social media: A North Carolina man of 81 called 911 and said: “What I need is someone to get to the grocery and bring me some food because I need to eat something.”
Losing weight is never easy, but for new moms it can be particularly difficult. The things that new moms do tend to lose – sleep, time for themselves, contact with the outside world – all seem to conspire to keep them from losing the weight they put on during their pregnancy.