Sleep can be elusive during pregnancy. Melatonin is a sleep-aid supplement, but it is not clear if it's safe to be taken while pregnant.

Urinary tract infections are a painful condition that will affect as many as 50 percent of all women during their lifetime, but incorporating certain foods and beverages -- such as blueberries and blueberry juice -- may be helpful for preventing UTIs.

Your baby's size, your new weight distribution, fluid retention and other changes brought about by hormones may all contribute to a variety of innocent aches and pains when you're 9 months pregnant.

Before birth, a baby must receive all her nutrition from her mother. While good maternal nutrition is necessary for normal fetal growth, other factors can also be important, such as genetics or disorders that affect the transfer of nutrients across the placenta from the mother to the fetus.

A woman of child-bearing age typically experiences her menstrual period every month, with a regularly recurring pattern in most cases. Most women have a period that lasts 3 to 5 days, with a duration of 2 to 7 days considered normal, according to the Office on Women's Health at the U.S.

Every cell in the body requires magnesium. As a result, an extensive list of symptoms could result from a deficiency. The mineral is a key player in nerve and muscle function, blood sugar and blood pressure regulation, energy production, and the manufacture of protein, bone and genetic material.

Irregular or painful bowel movements, also called constipation, are a common part of the pregnancy experience. In fact, approximately 50 percent of women develop constipation at some point during pregnancy, according to the American Pregnancy Association.

For most people, that motherly advice about wearing clean underwear is embedded in their psyches. But fewer pause to consider whether their underwear is too tight. Research has shown that constrictive undergarments can affect elements of health including circulation, continence and reproduction.

Sharp pain during pregnancy warrants your attention, but don’t panic. There are many possible culprits for sharp right-sided pain, including both pregnancy-related causes and unrelated conditions. Some causes represent harmless ailments.