You should have a colonoscopy every 10 years starting at age 50. Alternatively, you may get a flexible sigmoidoscopy every five years, a double-contrast barium enema every five years or a CT colonography (virtual colonoscopy) every five years. However, a colonoscopy will be needed if any of those results are positive.
Jena Pincott explains that even after a mother gives birth, her babyâs cells remain inside her body â and work tiny wonders. In an excerpt from her book Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies?, Pincott explains that pregnancy is really only the beginning for mother and baby cell-sharing.
Historically, new mothers and their babies stayed in the hospital for a week or more after delivery. Most neonatal nurses worked in hospital nurseries, caring for babies while new mothers recovered. Today, with very brief hospital stays and the availability of rooming-in options, the nursing care of healthy babies falls largely to maternity nurses.