Category: evidence
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Exercise In Pregnancy Boosts Babies Brains. Well, Possibly
According to an article on the Guardian website on Sunday: “Pregnant mothers who exercise boost babies’ brains. Weekly exercise by mothers linked to better mental performance in later life“. If you suspect I’m about to lay into this article, you’d be right. Somebody please sound the using dodgy science to attack women, again, klaxon. […]
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WDDTY – Depression, Drugs and Autism: Blame Mum
The latest edition of “health” magazine “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” claims that if a mother takes antidepressants during pregnancy, she triples the chances of her baby developing autism. Except that’s not quite what the study it references actually said…. Firstly – I have to thank the lovely writer of Nurture My Baby who posted about the […]
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Evidence – Part 1, The WHO Says It’s True
In my recent C-section related posts I’ve been moaning a lot about the lack of references and evidence for a lot of the claims that people make. It annoys me, a lot. But what really winds me up is self appointed “experts” who link to “scientific proof” that’s nothing of the sort.Pregnancy, birth and parenting […]