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Is your baby moving? Preventing stillbirth
Safer Care Victoria has launched the Movement Matters campaign which aims to encourage women to seek advice from their midwife or doctor if their baby’s movement declines or stops. It comes as the Women's trials a new app to help expectant mothers.
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Antibiotic use in pregnancy
We wish to reassure women that it is safe to take antibiotics during pregnancy. New research has found that children born to mothers who have taken antibiotics have a small increased risk of being admitted to hospital with an infection, between birth and 14 years of age.
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Diet prevents big babies in gestational diabetes patients
Ground-breaking new research has found that women with gestational diabetes can manage their condition by modifying their diet alone and are no longer considered at high risk of the common complication of big babies.
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Study finds breast milk expressing in pregnancy safe
A world first study, published in The Lancet today, has found that women with diabetes in a low-risk pregnancy can safely express breast milk in late pregnancy, with the study dispelling concerns that the practice could cause harm to babies.
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