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If you were born bad, mom can save you–even BEFORE you’re born! It’s hard to think of a baby being violent or destructive, but the seeds of violence may be planted before a child is born, meaning that attention to health factors as early as the prenatal stage could prevent violence in later life.

Nursing expert Jianghong Liu says, "Violence affects everyone in society and the cost of violence also has an indirect impact on our lives. As a society we should invest in better health care for early life–as early as a growing fetus–in order to minimize their health risk factors for violence. It is never too early to intervene in the development of violent tendencies."
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Sometimes we have to wait a long time for good news. Many people wait to have kids until they feel confident about their career. And since the right man doesn’t always turn up in time, women in their late 30s are freezing their eggs while they wait to meet him.

A study of women at a Belgian clinic found that half of them wanted to freeze their eggs to take the pressure off finding a partner, while a third were also having eggs frozen as an “insurance policy” against infertility. This allows student to focus on their career before taking along break for motherhood. The problem is, age has an impact on male as well as female fertility and when they do meet the right guy, he may have fertility problems too.
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Here’s why – You’ll need your voice to sing to your baby after he or she is born, but if you’re having trouble singing Christmas carols while pregnant, don’t be surprised.

One of the most dramatic hormonal fluctuations occurs during pregnancy, and many professional singers have experienced difficulty singing while pregnant. However, scientists do not know if this effect is due to hormones or to some other cause, such as decreased lung capacity as the baby grows.
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Evidence is accumulating to support the theory that vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy, caused by a lack of sunlight, can alter the development of a child’s brain in the womb.

The role of vitamin D in building healthy brains was ignored until researchers began to notice some strange trends. People who develop schizophrenia in Europe and North America are more likely to be born in the spring, and they are roughly four times more likely to be born to Afro-Caribbean immigrants living in northern countries.
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