Pregnancy Diet: What to Eat When Expecting
It just makes sense that proper nutrition and diet should play an important role in any woman’s pregnancy. After all, your body undergoes a long string of changes...
Impediments to a healthy birth: Alcohol, cigarettes, and prohibited drugs
The bad effects of alcoholism, smoking, and drug use are well known and widespread. While engaging in these unhealthy habits are harmful by themselves, it becomes a hundred...
Pregnancy Week 19
Inside Your BodyYour baby is about 15cm long and gaining a lot of weight at 230g. He/she has been living comfortably in an aquatic environment so far. Imagine...
Eating for two: Before, during, after pregnancy
Pregnancy brings many new do's and don'ts, must and must-not's for would-be moms. One of the more common, albeit most diverse, is the pregnancy diet.
While eating healthy fare...
What Most Filipino Moms Worry About Their Pregnancy
In the Philippines, being a mom is never easy. Apart from looking after yourself, you are expected to give full and direct baby care simply because you are...
Pregnancy Week 9
Inside Your BodyHow exciting! It is week 9 and your baby now weighs 2g and measures the size of a grape (2.5-3cm). Your baby is starting to look...
Pregnancy Week 10
Inside Your BodyThis week is the beginning of the “fetal” period, during which all the tissues and organs develop and mature quickly. Your baby continues to grow rapidly...
StemCord Facilities and Laboratories
WHERE ARE THE STEM CELLS STORED?
STEMCORD stores the Cord Blood samples at two of its state-of-the-art laboratories and storage facilities in Singapore’s new lab and Science Park II. StemCord...
Spa-tastic: Spa Treatments For Mum To Be & After!
By Lea Saguisag JusiAre you busy going to childbirth preparation classes, shopping for all that baby paraphernalia, rearranging your house and fixing up the nursery? Or are you...
Pregnancy Week 3
Inside Your Body Congratulations! You have successfully conceived. Technically speaking, your egg has successfully met its sperm “mate”, hence, your zygote (fertilised egg) will undergo the beginning of...