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Pregnant women and walking go hand in hand. When asked what safe exercises are out there for pregnant women, many think of walking, swimming, or even prenatal yoga. Swimming is a great form of exercise, but you need to have access to a swimming pool and you also have to…
Let’s have some teeth talk. By now you know that you and an increased amount of blood and hormones surging through your body when you are pregnant. This has an effect on your organs and soft tissue areas, including your mouth and your gums. These become softer, more swollen and…
Although scientific in nature, IVF itself is not an exact science and although everything can go exactly according to plan, there will never be a 100% success rate. There are many IVF failure reasons and when you think about it, when a healthy couple tries to conceive naturally, it can…
With all the medical advances in recent years more couples are able to be helped to conceive or treat infertility with a range of interventions. The Medical treatments for infertility and for diagnosing reproductive problems are invasive, expensive and time consuming.
Many people face a barrage of blood tests, shots,…
When you are ready to take the big dive into the crazy world of motherhood, there might be a few things you and future dad will want to get sorted out first in order to make sure you will have a safe, healthy enjoyable pregnancy and birth.
Go and get…
You get 3 kinds of Omega fatty acids, the Omega 3, omega 6 and omega 9. These are great brain foods that give you and your baby a mineral boost during pregnancy.
Omega 9 is not generally classified as an essential fatty acid, as this is not essential in the…
As nature begins the process of preparing for your baby's very firts nutritional needs, many changes begins to happin in your breasts. This happens long before y our baby is born, round about the sixteenth week of pregnancy. Then by the time your little treasure is born, your body will…
You can manage a chronic medical condition together with being pregnant. It is a careful balancing act, with special diets, lots of exercise, monitoring and medications. With all this going on in your life, and you add pregnancy to this, it becomes a lot more complicated.
However, you can enjoy…
The first trimester is OVER! Time to celebrate! Your nausea and vomiting should begin to subside now. Your fatigue should also slow down. You will still have it, but it won’t be as bad. The first trimester was hard. It is now time to enjoy your pregnancy.
The first trimester…
The umbilical cord is a miracle super highway between mother and baby, but what do we really know about it?
First of all the umbilical cord is formed round about the 5th week of fetal development. It consists of two arteries and one vain. It is all wrapped in a…
Many women enjoy being pregnant and love the way it makes them feel. However some women can feel the exact opposite. I know I was part of the latter group because I was always so exhausted, stressed out about my excessive weight gain and acne problems, and also my changing…
Suddenly there is the stabbing pain; you feel it down the side of your abdomen. It goes right into your groin just as you turn over in your sleep. This also happens when you reach out for something to grasp. You find yourself wondering what this sharp stabbing pain is.…
Every year more and more couples have problems to have a baby. They simply suffer for infertility. It is not the only reason why there are less babies born. First of all, people do not have enough money to satisfy their own needs because they do not have a well…
It is sad, heartbreaking, but also a blessing in more ways that you may know. Here are a few things you can expect with your preterm baby, and I will also show you what makes your little treasure so special.
When your baby is unexpectedly early, it can be quite…
As a first time pregnant mom, I decided to brave the shops to buy my first maternity outfit, what an experience. Let me tell you my story of buying maternity wear.
First of all, doing shopping for clothes is not my idea of having a good time. Under normal circumstances…
Omega 3 and Omega 6 are known as brain food, these are incredible minerals that give you and your baby an incredible boost during pregnancy. Some of us know this, but some of us don’t know that Omega 3 and Omega 6 provides your growing baby with energy and everything…
Many of us ask questions which age is right to get pregnant. Some claim that it is good when a couple is well-educated and has a job because they may earn a living. Others say that the age is not important if two people love each other. However, nowadays women…
There are many ways to deal and manage with a chronic medical condition together with being pregnant. It may seem like a careful balancing act for you with all the special diets, the exercise, your medical monitoring and all your medications. You have a lot going on in your life,…
Okay, you’re pregnant! Congratulations! Hmmm. What to eat? How much can I eat? How much should I eat? Am I eating for two? What are the good foods for my baby?
All right, for the bad news: you are not technically eating for two—meaning, you don’t get to eat two…
What’s really a normal weight gain during pregnancy? There is so much conflicting information out there, and normal weight gain in the United States can be so very different than what is expected in other countries. For example, my doctor told me that I should gain anywhere from 25 –…
For some pregnant women neck pain can become a constant companion. There are about eighty percent of pregnant women that complain of neck pain. But how is this possible, when all the hard work of being pregnant is done by your uterus?
First of all, your body is completely different…
If you are planning to start a family, then patience is a virtue! It's so easy to assume that once contraception is stopped, then a pregnancy will happen quickly. We spend a lot of our adult lives trying to avoid pregnancy and are naturally incredulous when it doesn't happen right…
Preparing for IVF treatment should ideally begin as soon as you have made the decision to undergo the procedure. There is much which can be done to improve the success rates by making simple dietary and lifestyle modifications and the optimum time to begin this is around 6 months beforehand.…
Your precious premature baby is a blessing in many ways. He is special and a miracle too.
There are many things to expect and to realize when you see your tiny little treasure for the first time. Some may come as a shock, it could be overwhelming but the fact…
You try hard to just sleep, but sleep is just not coming. You are uncomfortable and sleep is eluding you. You might think you may never be able to sleep comfortably again, but rest assured, there is help for you to get your much needed ZZZZZZZZzzz’s.
Sleeping like a baby……
Aside from all the benefits to your baby, the increase of Omega 3 and Omega 6 intake during pregnancy is also beneficial to you. During the third trimester of pregnancy, you transfer all of the fatty acids needed by your baby for optimum development of his brain and nervous system.…
Many women when they become pregnant wonder whether it is still safe to wear high heels. They don’t want to cause any harm to their baby or themselves, but many also don’t want to sacrifice their normal choice of foot wear. So can you wear high heels when you’re pregnant?…
You’re trying to get pregnant, but it’s not going fast enough. You feel like you are doing everything right, but you’re still not pregnant. What’s wrong? What can you do differently? Are you doing everything right?
Depending on where you are in the “trying to conceive” stage, you may have…
Usually you don’t find an exercise or workout routine for pregnant women that will directly help you during labor and beyond. However, there is one out there, and it is using the exercise ball also known as the birthing ball. There are even hospitals and medical facilities that have these…
You are sitting doing something, maybe at work or at friends and then you feel something wet on your shirt. Ooops, there you see it, two wet patches where you were still dry a few minutes ago. Could be very embarrassing. You are probably thinking that this cannot be normal?…
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