Category: OBSTETRICS

31 July 2022 0

SPEECH DEFECT LINKED TO INSULIN USE IN PREGNANCY

By DR. U.J. Agim

Can a child’s speech defect be linked to insulin use in pregnancy? A patient with gestational diabetes at the antenatal clinic asked if insulin causes speech defect in children. She feels one of her child who cannot speak at age 4years was due to the insulin she used to control her blood sugar in that pregnancy.

4 July 2022 0

THE FRAUD CALLED CRYPTIC PREGNANCY

By DR. U.J. Agim

The fraud called ‘cryptic pregnancy’ in certain countries fuels the baby factory business. The term ‘cryptic pregnancy’ is fraudulently used in certain countries to described false pregnancy also called pseudocyesis. A Rwandan proverb says, ‘pregnancy and fire cannot be kept secret’. Cryptic pregnancy however, begs to differ.

7 February 2022 5

PLACENTA PREVIA

By DR. U.J. Agim

Placenta previa is defined as the implantation of the placental tissue in the lower uterine segment adjacent to or overlying the mouth of the womb called..