Pregnancy is the fertilization and development of one or more offspring, known as an embryo or fetus, in a woman's uterus. In a pregnancy, there can be multiple gestations, as in the case of twins or triplets. Childbirth usually occurs about 38 weeks after conception; in women who have a menstrual cycle length of four weeks, this is approximately 40 weeks from the start of the last normal menstrual period (LNMP). Human pregnancy is the most studi...
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Diseases with this Risk Factor:
- Bacterial vaginosis ,
- Candidiasis ,
- Anemia ,
- Iron deficiency anemia ,
- Aplastic anemia ,
- Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia ,
- Folic Acid Deficiency Anemia ,
- Hepatitis ,
- Influenza ,
- Cardiomyopathy
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- Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it. ,
- If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains -- then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies. ,
- Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you. ,
- Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious. ,
- Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality. Every pregnant woman has body and self taken over by a chthonian force beyond her control. In the welcome pregnancy, this is a happy sacrifice. But in the unwanted one, initiated by rape or misadventure, it is a horror. Such unfortunate women look directly into nature's heart of Darkness. For a fetus is a benign tumor, a vampire who steals in order to live. The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way. ,
- I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.
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