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What are the most common procedures in a mommy makeover? Having children is a wonderful experience, but motherhood can produce some significant changes to a woman's body.

How much can you exercise while pregnant? For years, mothers-to-be have been told to cut back on exercise and take it easy despite the positive effects on body and mind. So how much is OK – and what workouts are recommended?

Canadians, for stretch marks try a topical treatment such as Stratamark ($40, Shoppers Drug Mart). This gel forms a thin but essential occlusive barrier on the skin to create an optimized environment to normalize and hydrate the collagen synthesis process, which will lead to repaired skin. The gel is non-sticky, dries quickly and is transparent, so it can be applied any time. Reduced appearance of stretch marks is apparent in as little as a month, which is all the more reason to grab a tube and start applying now!

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Inexpensive Drug Prevents Deaths in New Mothers, Study Finds Postpartum hemorrhage, which kills 100,000 women in developing countries, can be treated with a nearly forgotten blood-clotter invented in the 1950s.

Survival rate improves for extremely premature infants The rate of neurodevelopmental problems also declined slightly in babies born after 22 to 24 weeks gestation.

Baby in a Box? Free Cardboard Bassinets Encourage Safe Sleeping A new program in New Jersey aims to reduce infant mortality by distribute tens of thousands of so-called baby boxes.

Women whose breasts are predominantly made up of more dense, glandular tissue face higher odds for breast cancer, a new study finds. The researchers added that, based on their study of 200,000 women, breast density may be the most important gauge of breast cancer risk, eclipsing family history of the disease and other risk factors.

Breast density may be leading indicator of cancer risk (HealthDay)—Women whose breasts are predominantly made up of more dense, glandular tissue face higher odds for breast cancer, a new study finds.

Bec Judd credits a $100 cream for leaving her 'stretch mark free' Rebecca Judd has credited a $99.95 bottle of cream from Switzerland for keeping her stretch mark free during her recent pregnancy with twins.

Too soon? Why some moms aren't waiting 12 weeks to announce pregnancy Australian blogger Sophie Cachia caught criticism when she announced her second pregnancy to the Internet at just nine weeks. Was she wrong?

Does a Newborn's Helplessness Hold the Key to Human Smarts? Researchers say child care demands created a need for higher IQs—a hotly disputed view

The rate of triplet and higher-order births rose rapidly during the 1980s and 1990s, but that trend has ended.

Triplet and Higher-Order Births in U.S. Down 41% The decline, which comes after a rapid rise in the 1980s and ’90s, occurred between 1998 and 2014, according to a new report.