Missing Chicago Postal Worker Kierra Cole’s Parents Still Searching
Chicago Postal Worker, Kierra Cole, was last seen on a neighbor’s surveillance leaving her South Side home on Oct. 2, 2018. According to the police, she did not report for work that day. The 26-year-old’s vehicle was where she had last parked it; inside was her lunch and purse. Cole was three months pregnant at […]
COVID-19 Antibodies as First Gift From Mother to Newborn
Recent studies have shown that pregnant women who had received a COVID-19 vaccine shot can alter a child’s ability to fight the virus — in a proactive way. On March 19, 2021, CBS reported that one woman in her final trimester of pregnancy received the vaccination. During labor, the newborn’s blood tests — on its […]
Pregnant Woman Face a Kaleidoscope of Emotions
Many women have ideas of what it is like to be pregnant. Anything from hearts and cheeks glowing to feeling complete and always happy. Now, this can absolutely be true for some. However, it is completely natural to face a kaleidoscope of emotions. By kaleidoscope of emotions, one means having a whole bunch of emotions […]
Pregnancy During COVID-19 Pandemic Can Be Scary
Speaking from experience, being pregnant during the COVID-19 pandemic is extremely scary. Everyone has concerns and worries because of the virus. Now add pregnancy to the mix and it concludes to massive stress. Every pregnant woman knows that their immune system lowers while they are pregnant. This is not something they want with the pandemic […]
Pregnant and Nursing Mothers Hold a Higher Risk of Dying From COVID-19
As if pregnant and nursing women do not have enough to worry about — from their health to their babies’ — just to have COVID-19 added to their stress. The virus has caused massive stress for everyone worldwide in 2020. The ones who are at high risk of contracting COVID-19 are pregnant and nursing women. […]