preconception care การใช้

• Preconception care can boost baby's health
• A sidebar explains things women can do, from preconception care to diet and exercise, to give babies their best start.
• Even if one only considers medical costs relating to preconception care and birth, any method of contraception saves money compared to using no method.
• Don't disregard this part of your preconception care, because research in the field of psycho-neuroimmunology shows that your mind is extraordinarily powerful.
• In a similar population sample of people who have practised no preconception care, you would expect about 70 women to experience a miscarriage and about 12 children to be born with a malformation.
• A large part of preconception care involves establishing a good nutritional profile so it is imperative that the effects of the OCP are no longer active, and have been compensated for, by the time conception occurs.
• However, the good news is that natural remedies are very effective in reducing post-pill symptoms, and with sufficient time given after stopping the pill for thorough preconception care, the problems caused by the hormonal drugs are greatly reduced, if not eliminated altogether.
• So, if preparing for pregnancy means no more to you than deciding that you want a baby, and if preconception care simply sounds like the latest buzzword, it might interest you to know that the idea, and in fact the practice, of care before conception, is very, very old.
• Dr . William H . Herman, an epidemiologist specializing in diabetes at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported at the American Diabetes Association's annual scientific meeting this month that preconception care for women with diabetes could markedly improve the outcome for mother and child and reduce health care costs by about 80 percent.
• Finally, research carried out in the United Kingdom over the last 18 years by Foresight ( the Association for the Promotion of Preconception Care, established in 1978 ), shows conclusively that if, in the months preceding conception, both prospective parents eat a nutritious diet, follow a healthy lifestyle, avoid exposure to environmental pollutants and if infections or allergies are treated, they will not only improve their fertility, but will also significantly reduce their chance of suffering a miscarriage, premature or stillbirth, or of giving birth to a baby with a congenital defect.