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Are you eating your dates?
Did you know that eating dates during the last weeks of pregnancy has many advantages? Keep on reading to find out more! You might have heard that you should eat dates during the last weeks of your pregnancy. But did you know that this is not just a myth or an old wives tale? Research actually backs this up! Keep on reading to find out more. Research on eating dates during pregnancy On this paper by Kura et al., researchers compared a group of two women: the women of the first group consumed six dates per day on the four weeks prior to their due date, and the women on…
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Move to be Born: challenging our preconceptions surrounding childbirth
At the end of November I was honored to be part of the FNR’s Researcher’s Days, a science festival dedicated to bringing research closer to the wider public. I participated in the two first days of the exhibition that were exclusive for high school students. A total of 141 classes were present at the event, with more than 2660 students at teachers in total. Keep on reading to find out more about our participation on the 2024 Researchers Days! Giving birth like a movie star: not the best idea Movies and TV series tend to depict women giving birth lying down on their backs. However, research suggests that this is…
