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Read on to learn about healthy food choices, activity tips, and helpful feeding information for your toddler.

When a mother has diabetes, her baby is at risk for problems. Read on to learn more.

You will have to remove milk from your breasts on a regular basis if you are to provide enough of your milk for your high-risk baby.

During pregnancy, when the placenta is attached close to the cervix or covers the cervix, it is called placenta previa. Learn more about this condition, including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and complications.

Diabetes is a condition in which the body can't make enough insulin, or can't use insulin normally. Insulin is a hormone. It helps sugar (glucose) in the blood get into cells of the body to be used as fuel. When glucose can’t enter the cells, it builds up in the blood.

Fetal movement counting is a way to check the health of a developing baby (fetus). It’s often called kick counting. It’s done by counting the number of kicks you feel from your baby in a certain time period.

Preterm labor is labor that starts before 37 completed weeks of pregnancy. Labor is when the uterus regularly tightens and the cervix starts to thin and open. This lets the baby (fetus) enter the birth canal.

A head injury can be as mild as a bump, bruise (contusion), or cut on the head. Or it can be a concussion, a deep cut or open wound, broken skull bones, internal bleeding, or damage to the brain. Head injuries are one of the most common causes of disability and death in children.

Is it time for your baby to have a full physical exam? Your pediatrician might want to conduct a neurological exam. Don't worry, this series of tests designed to evaluate your child's nervous system is painless. Here's what it entails.