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Headache During Pregnancy: What You Need to Know

Headaches during pregnancy

Headaches are common during pregnancy. The increased sinus congestion, interrupted sleep and dehydration are some additional risk factors for headaches in pregnant women. In most cases, pregnancy headaches are harmless. But headaches that happen suddenly and start during the second half of the pregnancy, can be a sign of preeclampsia, which is a dangerous condition […]

6 tips to make hand hygiene fun for children

hand washing kids

Kids often forget to wash their hands and touch their mouth, face, eyes after coming home from the outdoors. Hand washing has become one of the most essential habits since the onset of Covid-19 and the pandemic has brought out the importance of following good hand hygiene. Although most of us have invariably started to follow this ritual regularly, […]

How to tell if your baby is eating enough: Baby feeding schedule

Baby Feed Tips

One of the most common worries among the concerns of a mother is if the baby is getting the right nutrition and is being fed correctly. Having a newborn comes with its set of curiosities and questions according to a mother’s concerns, no matter how prepared a mother will be. One of the most common worries among […]

For kids with behavioural issues, focusing on diversion yields positive results: Study

kids with behavioural issues

Researchers found that focusing on diversion — instead of detention — yields positive results for youth with behavioral health issues. Of the 5,300 children enrolled in the Ohio Behavioral Health Juvenile Justice Initiative since 2006, 21 percent reported that someone close to them had been murdered in the past year. Nearly half of the boys […]