Routine pregnancy scan left mom fearing she wouldn't see baby grow up

A first-time mom was diagnosed with a rare cancer after a routine pregnancy scan. Dolly Chhabria, 37, found out she was ...

Pregnancy changes the brain – and we are only beginning to understand how and why

Pregnancy reshapes the brain more profoundly than scientists ever imagined – and a landmark new study is finally mapping exactly how.

'I went for routine pregnancy scan - then found out I have rare cancer'

A mum-to-be nearly said no to a routine pregnancy scan, which later revealed she had a rare and 'aggressive' form of cancer - ...
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A Pregnant Woman's Brain Was Mapped for the First Time — Here's How It Changed

“Sciences have historically ignored women’s health,” says the lead researcher, as a possible explanation for why the scan had never been done before LWA/Getty; Nature Neuroscience For the first time, ...

Pregnant women's brains shed grey matter to prime them for motherhood, study suggests

The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, was not designed to look directly at the long-held notion of so-called baby brain - the brain fog and memory problems that some women say ...
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Second Pregnancy Does Something Unique to The Brain, Study Reveals

(Oscar Wong/Moment/Getty Images) A second pregnancy alters the brain in distinctive ways that are not simply a repeat of the first, new research shows. Compared with women having their first child and ...