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1. Cord Blood Stem Cells: Your Questions Answered
   

   Stem cells are immature cells that can transform into other kinds of cells and reproduce themselves. Cord blood stem cells are collected in the umbilical cord at birth and can produce all of the blood cells in the body. Cord blood stem cells can be used to treat blood-related diseases, such as leuke

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2. Brave New World
   

   By Colleen Dunn Bates Every newly pregnant woman embarks on an adventure as boldly as astronaut Sally Ride and as full of expectations as Christopher Columbus. Even if you’ve been pregnant before, each voyage is fraught with new fears and blessed with new surprises. To ease these fears and help prep

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3. Deciding Baby's Sex
   

   If you're yearning to conceive a baby boy, can it really be as easy as eating breakfast cereal and a potassium-rich diet to tip the scales toward blue booties, as a recent study seems to indicate? If you want to welcome a bundle of pink, can tweaking your diet in other ways boost the chances? The re

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4. Memory Lapse? It May Be Pregnancy Brain
   

   When she was pregnant with her now 1 1/2-year-old son, Bena Blakeslee frantically paced an airport parking lot searching in vain for her Jeep. Exasperated after an hour of this fruitless endeavor, she broke down in tears and called her husband to tell him that their car had been stolen. Turns out th

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5. Separating Pregnancy Myths and Facts
   

   If you're hoping to do everything right for your baby's health but confused by what seems like a growing list of pregnancy myths, you're not alone. Most mothers-to-be share similar concerns -- and equal amounts of confusion. "Some of that confusion is the result of new information that is continuall

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6. Pregnancy Symptoms: What They Never Told You
   

   In the movies, the first clue a woman is pregnant is when she darts out of bed, clutches her stomach and runs for the bathroom. But there are many lesser known pregnancy symptoms that rival morning sickness – which, by the way, doesn’t only strike in the morning. “I’ve been thinking about what I’ve

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7. Getting Pregnant: Easy Ways to Encourage Fertility
   

   For some couples, getting pregnant is quick and easy. For others, things may not go exactly as planned. Sometimes, problems are linked to specific physiological issues such as blocked fallopian tubes in the woman or low or no sperm count in the man -- problems that can be helped by fertility treatme

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8. From Bliss to the Blues
   

   By Nancy Gottesman Trang Burnett describes herself as rational and not prone to knee-jerk emotional reactions. Yet, when the Tampa, Fla., mother was pregnant with now-2-year-old son Bryson, all bets on her moods were off. "TV commercials really affected me-happy or sad, they always made me cry," rec

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9. Mercury Rising?
   

   Carole Anderson Lucia It's a conundrum: You know seafood is one of the healthiest foods you can eat. Rich in protein and other essential nutrients, swimming with heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids and low in saturated fats, these watery wonders have likely been a part of your weekly - if not daily -

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10. Fast-Track Your Conception
    

    If you are anything like me (and most of my 30-something girlfriends), once you've decided that you are ready to get pregnant and have a baby, you want it yesterday. But most of us learn that conception is easier said than done. It doesn't have to be that way. If you are otherwise healthy, many new

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