Infertility: Know how using donor eggs, sperm or embryo works and what conditions need to exist.

Donor Eggs, Donor Sperm, or Donor Embryo
There are presently no centers or clinics that allow this option in the Philippines.

How it works
Basically donor-assisted IVF or AI.

Cervical Cancer Vaccination

Vaccination Schedule: 0, 1, 6 , months

Contraindication:

• History of allergy to previous vaccination or any component of the vaccine
• Pregnant and breastfeeding

Precaution:

• Moderate-Severe illness

Can I be vaccinated if I am pregnant or breastfeeding?

• Use in pregnancy is not recommended
• It is not known whether vaccine antigens or antibodies found in the vaccine are excreted in human milk

Every Woman Deserves a Chance Against Cervical Cancer

5 Things you need to know about cervical cancer vaccination:

1. You do not need to be screened before vaccination.
   
   • While it is ideal to get screened it is not necessary since regardless of your current status, you can be vaccinated.
2. Fighting HPV infection does not protect you from re-infection
   
   • Unlike other infections that you only get once like chickenpox, HPV infection can be recurrent and acquired at any age.
   • If you’ve already fought off an HPV infection, it is possible to be infected again.
3. You can still get vaccinated even if you already have HPV
   
   • Even if you have HPV (for example HPV 18), vaccination can still protect you from cancer causing HPV 16 and provide and a degree of protection against 12 other cancer causing types of HPV. However, the vaccine is not curative so it won’t affect a present cervical condition (existing HPV infections, lesions, or cervical cancer).
4. Women 26 years old and up can still benefit from vaccination
   
   • Because HPV infection is common and can occur at any age, sexually active women may remain at risk throughout their lives. Also the older women, gets the higher risk of persistent HPV infection (one that does not go away).
5. Vaccination and regular Pap smears are you best chance of preventing cervical cancer.
   
   • Vaccination protects you from HPV 16, 18, 35 and 41, the cause of 80% of cervical cancer cases worldwide, while regular Pap smears will allow early detection of precancerous changes in the cervix.

What is Dengue Fever?

What is Dengue Fever?
Dengue fever is brought on by mosquito's bites. They have an infection in their system and when an Aedes aegypti mosquito bites a person. Dengue is not an airborne transmission type of virus that can cause from human to human.

Make bath time safe and enjoyable for you and your baby. Here's how!

On a hot summer day, a dip in the tub or a cold refreshing shower is a delight for anyone. For your baby, however, bath time could be “stress” time. “Even the sound of water splashing is foreign to babies,”. “Newborns especially, get startled easily. It’s what we call the Moro Reflex. Parents, therefore, should aim to make bath time as soothing to the child as possible,” she adds. Below are some bath time basics to help you.

Smart Parenting

“Mommy, how come these little ones get away with things many didn’t when they were that age?” is the usual complaint of the eldest children. They were referring – not to their first brother, who was just a few years younger -- but to the next “batch” of siblings – a boy or a girl who came about ten years later.