- Industry: Health care
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When a woman provides her eggs to help an infertile woman. The donor's ovaries are stimulated by drugs to produce extra eggs, which are surgically removed, fertilized, and then implanted in the recipient's uterus.
Industry:Parenting
Tong-shaped instruments that are inserted into the vagina and placed around the baby's head to ease it out of the birth canal during childbirth.
Industry:Parenting
Tracking a fetus's heartbeat and a woman's uterine contractions during labor.
Industry:Parenting
Twins born at the same time but resulting from the fertilization of two different eggs.
Industry:Parenting
This B vitamin, found in prenatal vitamins and green leafy vegetables, prevents anemia and has been shown to reduce incidence of neural tube defects such as spina bifida.
Industry:Parenting
To initiate a pregnancy, which is what happens when a sperm fertilizes an egg.
Industry:Parenting
The spontaneous and involuntary loss of a pregnancy before 20 weeks, estimated to occur in 15 to 20 percent of all pregnancies. It usually takes place during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, and many occur before a woman even knows she's pregnant.
Industry:Parenting
