In the uterus, women have about 6 to 7 million eggs and when they’re born that number goes down to reach about 2 million. When women are ovulating and having periods, it’s about 200,000 eggs, explains Dr. Alejandra Salazar, Obstetrician and Gynecologist with Baptist Health South Florida. In every cycle multiple eggs mature and women…...

Regarding delivery, most questions are about epidural vs. natural delivery, Dr. Joanna Bedell, Obstetrician and Gynecologist with Baptist Health South Florida, explains epidural is very safe and helpful. Dr. Sarah Bedell. Obstetrician and Gynecologist with Baptist Health South Florida, advises moms to start to look for a pediatrician in the last two months of pregnancy.…...

Dr. Jaime Fernandez, Pediatric Neonatologist with Homestead Hospital, explains SIDS stands for sudden infant death syndrome: "What's happened is the nomenclature has changed a little bit, in the sense that now we call it SUID, which is sudden unexpected infant death." He also says if you think about it as an umbrella, SUID is the…...

Grisel Gigato, Lactation Nurse with the Center for Women and Infants at South Miami Hospital, explains if mothers are not able to put their babies directly on the breast, they encourage them and support them with breast pumping. She points out breast milk is nutrition and medicine that mothers are providing and only they can…...

Dr. Ellen Schwartzbard, Obstetrician and Gynecologist with Baptist Health South Florida, affirms prenatal care is so important, because women are preparing for the whole pregnancy and learn about what to expect for the birthing process. The specialist says women must know there is a lot of variation to expect really anything. When they come…...

Dr. Sarah Bedell, Obstetrician and Gynecologist at Baptist Health South Florida, says with multiple pregnancies, a lot of babies are born very early due to the need of getting assistance with breathing, and feeding, depending on how early they are, and the terms of how many additional weeks. "If you deliver at 30 weeks, which…...

Breastfeeding has a lot of benefits for moms such as: closer relationships between mom and baby, it reduces the risk of postpartum depression, lowers stress, less risk of ovarian cancer, it helps burn off pregnancy weight and helps prevent osteoporosis. Nursing itself increases the circulation of two hormones: prolactin and oxytocin. One of them produces…...

Dr. Jason James, Obstetrician and Gynecologist with Baptist Health South Florida, highlights natural birth is vaginal delivery as opposed to C-section and it is also completely natural with no medications or no induction or epidural. He says cesarean section means major abdominal surgery and a longer hospitalization, a longer recovery, and there is more risk…...