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For healthy women with normal pregnancies, most exercises are safe, with a few adjustments

"Instead of splitting up, the new operating room will allow for the recovery of mom and the baby together.”

If you could stop breast cancer before you were even diagnosed, should you? The answer is more complicated than you may think.

“Some women will need a C-section based on risk factors. The decision is based on what is best for mom and baby."

From what's going on your body and your baby's development to whether it's OK to drink caffeine

Pregnancy often comes with mixed emotions. While it can be one of the most joyous times of a parent’s life, it can also instill a lot of worry. Although most babies are born healthy, there is a small chance for a birth defect, chromosomal difference or genetic condition in every pregnancy. There are currently hosts […]

“The nurses here are spending their Mother’s Day in the NICU, too, and taking care of other people’s babies."

Kari Matthys still remembers the feeling of holding her oldest daughter in her arms for the first time. “She was this little life that just depended on you for everything,” Matthys said. “I loved every minute of being a mom.” Now a mother of three, Matthys, from Hillsboro, North Dakota, loves sharing her life and […]

Jada Shoemaker shares experience giving birth at Sanford Health

A technique called “deep inspiration breath hold” during radiation shows promise as a way to minimize the impact treatments can have on the heart, especially on patients with cancer in the left breast. Ryan Nowak, M.D., a radiation oncologist at Sanford Health, explains how it works and its benefits. Background Historically, the radiation beam went across […]