Health & Beauty Tips For A Better Live » Pregnancy & Baby

Bond with your family

admin — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:25:37 +0000

This is a great time to chat with your mom and aunts or an older sister who have been through it all. Find out what they did to get ready , what their pregnancies were like. you’re likely to see everyone with new eyes after this. And you’ll coome away knowing some well kept secrets and feel like you are finally being treated like an adult!

Now get going, get ready. And have a wonderful, happy pregnancy.

Take it easy

admin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:18:50 +0000

If you’re under a lot of stress, it’s time to take a break or do whatever it takes to relax. It’s not easy to conceive under pressure. Try to lead as healthy a life as you can manage. Get enough sleep, exercise and eat well. Stay happy.

Exercise

admin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:07:33 +0000

Get fighting fit for an easy pregnancy. The fitter you are, the more likely you are to have an easy pregnancy and delivery. But exercising to an extreme can make it harder for you to get pregnant. If you don’t exercise, it’s a great time to start. You could choose an activity like walking, yoga etc, and devote half an hour each day to it. Under normal circumstances, it will always help you to keep exercising lightly throughout your pregnancy.

Watch the kilos

admin — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:51:32 +0000

In case you are overweight or underweight, try your best to do something about it now. Lose the kilos you need to lose through diet and exercise. It will make a great difference to your health and your baby’s health during pregnancy. It’s much easier to conceive when your weight is in normal range. It’s also easier to gain weight at the recommended pace while you’re pregnant. If you’re overweight right now, it increases your risk of gestational diabetes and a poor pregnancy outcome. If you’re at risk of infertility, anaemia, and complications during childbirth.

A healthy lifestyle

admin — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:22:36 +0000

A healthy lifestyle - Now is the time to junk food and eat healthy, nutritious food which can help you and your baby go through those special nine months with flying colours. Eat a variety of food everyday, covering all the food groups. Make sure you have extra portions of calcium. Also check with you doctor about taking a calcium supplement. Limit caffeine intake as much as possible. Eat complex carbohydrates rather than refind ones. Stay away from sugar goodies as much as possible and when you do have a craving, choose the more healthy alternative, for instance a homemade pudding made from jaggery instead of sugar. Getting used to eating sensibly will help you make good food choices during your pergnancy and the many months of breastfeeding that follow. The other things you will have to give up now if you indulge in them are up now if you indulge in them are cigarettes, drugs and alcohol. All of these can cause grave harm to your baby. In fact, you should also encourage your partner to give up these becasue all of these substances can affect the nature of sperm. And when you do conceive, passive smoking is bad for you and your developing foetus.