Are you thinking to get pregnant?

Only you can decide or you partner that are you ready to become the parent. You have to think that is it right for you? Parenting is delightful but also demanding. You have to fulfil the needs of your child, it takes a lot of vitality.

You will have a hard time if you are expecting so much after becoming parent. Spend some time with other parents and chat with them, it will help you in making decision whether you need a child or not. Take care of a relative’s child if you had not spent time with a child in past, it will also help you in decision making.

Can you fulfill your child’s need? Before getting into pregnancy think about it. Kids need you time, energy and care. You have to plan their daily schedule, you have to buy their clothes, diapers, food and so on.

You have to make some changes in your life such as, your eating habits during pregnancy. You will have very less time for yourself after having child. Make a list of your feelings about raising a child, and also about your desires for your future life. This will help you in making a decision.

What is prenatal testing?

Are you curious about your baby’s health? Consider some prenatal tests. Such tests can tell you about your baby’s health and the complication you have to face during the pregnancy or at the time of labor. Your doctor will tell you when these tests are needed.

Ultrasound is a common test during the pregnancy, it is used to take pictures of the baby. It is also known as sonogram. It helps you in confirming your labor date, finding complications, finding multiple babies and so on. Ultrasound or sonogram is a safe test, it is mostly offered between 11 and 13 week of the prenatal period.

After ultrasound, multiple marker screening test is offered between 15 and 19 week of the pregnancy. It is used to know about birth defects. If your doctor will catch any risk of birth defect he might advise you some other screening tests.

Amniocentesis is another test related to birth defect, if you have any risk of birth defect or you had a child with birth defect, you will be asked for amniocentesis. However, it is a safe test but there are slight risk of infection and preterm labor. Most of the women found it painless and comfortable.

Question related Abortion

Are you facing unplanned pregnancy? Now are you curious about your abortion? Before going for abortion you must know the benefits and risks of the abortion. Surely, your mind is full of questions regarding your abortion. Here are some common questions that are mostly asked by women.

Is abortion right for me?

Think about the benefits and difficulties of the abortion and what is most important for you. Think about how you feel after the abortion. Consider what you desire for your life and for your family.

How can I decide?

You can decide it yourself, but if you are double mind consult your elders, your doctor or any other person you can trust. The best option for you to consult your husband

When I have to decide?

Abortion is safe if you decide it in the early stage of the pregnancy. It becomes risky and the complications will increase as the time goes on. So you must not delay too much if you are interested in abortion.

Abortion’s method

It depends on your condition and it will be decided by your doctor. You might be ask to have the “abortion pill” or “in-clinic abortion”.

Any long time risks?

Safe abortion do not create any problems in the future, but a complicated abortion can create problems like preterm labor, miscarriage, birth defects.

Feeling after miscarriage

Miscarriage means a lot for women or couple, it hurts a lot. If you are the victim surely, after miscarriage you have different feelings. Miscarriage cause a large range of feelings. You might feel shock wave, frustration, guiltiness and relief. Such feelings are quite normal after the miscarriage. Here are some tips for you:

Ø  Sadness is a normal reaction to miscarriage, allow yourself instead of denying it. After some sadness surely you will feel some relaxation.

Ø  Everyone takes different time to relax after the miscarriage, it depends on the environment and care from your loved ones.

Ø  Share your feelings with your partner, maybe he is not describing his feelings to you but he will be worried also. Try to relax him and spend your most of the time with him and support him as much as you can.

Ø  If u want to ask about the pregnancy in future, consult your doctor and ask her when it is better for you. You can also ask some precautions to prevent miscarriage in the future. All this enquiry make you feel relax.

You will feel better after some time but if you are still depress and not able to do your regular activities then consult your doctor. He will advise you something else that is good for you.

How will I feel after abortion?

In the world a lot women faced unplanned pregnancies, some of them decide to abort. A large range of emotions has been seen after the abortion according to the reason of the abortion. Some of them feel embarrassed, sadness or anger for the little time after the abortion while some women have these emotional state pretty strong.

Some women have their abortion a special event like losing a job, ending her relationship and so on. So they will surely feel depression or anxiety after the abortion. Some of the women feel relax after the abortion.

After the abortion long term emotional difficulties are seen very rarely. If it happens there will be some solid reasons such as she had emotional hitches in the previous life before the abortion, she do not have caring people in her life, she want that pregnancy but she have to dismiss due to serious health issues.

Most of the women who abort, feel relax after the abortion. They will feel better if they have loving people in their life. So try to talk with her and take them out if possible. Take a visit to their favorite place or hotel. Spend your time with her as much as possible, it will make her feel relax.

What can take place if your infant is premature?

The babies that are born before the 37 week of the pregnancy are called as premature. Premature baby can suffers with serious health issues or may be incurable for the baby if it occurs too early. It is general and everyone knows that the more developed baby at the time of birth will survive easily and live a healthy life.

The babies born as premature might have problem of breathing and a greater possibility of brain diseases. Premature Baby’s nervous system and further organs might be also affected. Such infants can suffer through jaundice and you might have problem in feeding them. It is tough to sustain their body temperature. The premature babies that survive in the early days might have development problem and hearing issue in the future.

Most of the babies that are preterm are born between 34 to 37 weeks. The preterm baby that is born later in the pregnancy have more chances to survive in the society and have less health issues while other that are born early have more risk of health issues in the future.

These days technology has made it so easy to treat preterm babies, and lifts the chance of survive for them. Certain medicines are used to develop the baby faster in the uterus.

                                                                                                                                                                           

Preterm birth

Preterm birth means you deliver you baby before the due date. The baby delivered before 37^th week of the pregnancy is called preterm birth or premature labor and the baby is called as premature.

If you have consistent contractions that will affect your cervix to open before you reach your 37 week of the pregnancy, it means you are going for the preterm labor. ¼ of the total preterm births are planned due to some special conditions such as if your baby has stopped growing then doctors will suggest preterm labor. If your or your baby’s health is not going well or you have a serious medical condition then your health care provider might advise you preterm labor.

Preterm birth occurs if your membranes got ruptured or if your cervix become exposed without contractions. According to the survey in United States nearly 12% babies are born prematurely that is higher than the 1970s. Now a days most of the women using fertility medications and excessive use of such medicines leads to preterm delivery. Also, delaying pregnancy is another reason of the preterm birth.

Always consult your doctor during the pregnancy and ask her what to do? And what is best for you according to your pregnancy condition. Preterm birth can cause serious health issues for your baby so you must try to avoid this.

Women are poorly informed about Pregnancy

According to the research, most of the women don’t know much about pregnancy related complications, and this is a major factor of miscarriage and other problems. Most of the women do not know about how much weight they will gain during pregnancy.

The majority of the women in the research told that they knew healthy intake was important, but very few knows that what is healthy for them during pregnancy. Women told that they don’t know the required amount of weight they should gain during the pregnancy.

Gaining too much weight or not sufficient, both are not good for the health of mother and baby. Research shows that two-thirds of Australian women did not gain sufficient weight during their pregnancy, while the other one-third gained too much weight during their prenatal period.

As the exercise is harmless, in fact it is good for the health of both mother and baby, but the women was also found to be poorly informed about exercise during pregnancy.

So it is very essential for every pregnant women to know about the issues she have to face during her pregnancy period. All the complications should be discussed before the pregnancy so women will be able to manage it easily.

Is it safe to carry a Toddler during Pregnancy?

During pregnancy it’s not a good thought to carry a toddler. Due to your extra weight gain, your center of gravity changes, and this set a lot of stress on your lower back. So if you went down and pick a toddler, it will make you feel weak. This may cause extra back pain.

As it is impossible to clarify this to your infant, so you must use other ways to keep your toddler feel special such as sit down and hug your toddler, make him/her sit on your lap and so on. Your friends and family can help you by lifting your toddler.

In other case, if it is necessary to lift your toddler, try to keep your back straight by bending your knees. This will reduce stress and back pain issue during pregnancy.

Protect your skin from aging

There are many skin care products available in market nowadays. Due to much competition one cannot easily choose the right one. But we can make simpler the shopping by giving importance to one of the most important component that is Vitamin E. 

It is very helpful during pregnancy to deeply hydrate and refresh the skin and prevent from skin aging. Natural products are much more effective than the artificial and natural products are very safe as they don’t have any sort of side effects to your skin but artificial may give harm to your skin as they are made of different chemicals so they may damage the skin in many ways, contraction of the skin is one of them. So when you are going to buy any skin care product, you should follow the upper given tips.

Questions to consider before Prenatal Testing

There are a lot of questions regarding pregnancy tests in every couples mind. Is it safe? Is the results are accurate? Here we will answer some of questions and make your mind clear what can happen with the prenatal tests:

What are the risks? All the tests are not involved in creating difficulties for you. Only some specific prenatal tests causes complications such as pain, anxiety or miscarriage.

Are the results accurate? No, they are not flawless. Accuracy varies according to the test.

Will the information going to help you? Yeah! Of course it helps a lot. Some pregnancy tests identify complications that can be solved during the pregnancy with some extra care. In other case if it can’t be resolved during pregnancy then your doctor have to take instant actions right after birth.

Benefits of Pregnancy Massage

Massage is a decent option for everyone, it reduces the stress of the all day and also prevent pains in different parts of the body. Here we only talk about pregnancy massage that how it works and what are the benefits of the pregnancy massage:

Pregnancy massage reduces the stress and the swelling in the arms, which are mostly found during the pregnancy. It allows you to stay relax and diminish the pains in the muscles. This is the best option against the back pain due to weight gain during pregnancy, instead of using pain killers or any other medication.

Human touch during massage is heartening and gives you emotional support as well during pregnancy. According to the doctors massage declines the depression that mostly happens during pregnancy period. So, massage is the finest option for you if you are going through prenatal period.

Take good sleep

Sleeping habits affects your way of life in many aspects. There should be moderate sleep to refresh your body properly. During pregnancy you should care about your sleep.       Sleeping habits effect your mental abilities (unsustainable attention, power of thinking), your body health (obesity, heart attach).  Face problems of dark circles, rough skin tone, wrinkles, dim colour. You may loss interest in daily routine       Expert’s advices to take sleep of 7 to 8 hours in pregnancy days. Many women sleep such hours even then they don’t feel fresh next morning. The quality of sleep also matters, you should erase out all of the stress and worries from your mind before going to your bed. Complete your all work one hour before your sleeping time and do brisk walk it will help a lot.

Shoulder Message:

Massage is a very helpful thing for everyone but if you are in pregnancy, it is strongly recommended. Shoulders got stretched often during pregnancy days, to relax them you can massage them by fingertips slowly moving around and keep close your eyes during this procedure. Many parlours

 offer shoulder message you can get benefit of it going regularly, weekly, or monthly it depends upon your budget and time and attention towards your health. There are many devices available in market for massage, you can purchase it to do massage at home, this will save time and budget. Such devices are also helpful in back pain (most heard issue during pregnancy) and shoulder pain equally. Some are charged by electricity by a given charger and some are used by cells. It depends on your choice.