Your baby has grown to weigh 6 to 10 pounds (on average). To accomplish all of these productive changes, your body needs approximately 300 extra calories per day during your 2nd and 3rd trimester of pregnancy. Every woman should discuss her individual nutritional needs with her health care provider.
Practice Essentials. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a blood-borne virus typically transmitted via sexual intercourse, shared intravenous drug paraphernalia, and mother-to-child transmission (MTCT), which can occur during the birth process or during breastfeeding.
1 HIV is an acronym for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. 2  HIV is a type of retrovirus, meaning that it hasâ¦. 3  HIV Testing Is An Important Way To Help Stop the Spread of HIV The HIV epidemic has developed into an event much larger and more complex than most of us expected when we first began to learn about AIDS.