Breast care after delivery

May6
Breast care after delivery is very important both for successful feeding and to avoid health problems. Your breasts will never return to exactly the same shape as before pregnancy. But most sagging or enlargement is due to pregnancy, rather than nursing.   It’s important to wear a nursing bra for firm support and postnatal exercises will help prevent sagging. After weaning, milk-producing glands are gradually replaced by fatty tissue.   Breasts and nipples should be washed Read more [...]

State of the mind during pregnancy

May6
The high levels of hormone in a woman’s body during pregnancy can affect her state of mind, making her sometimes weepy, vague, euphoric and completely unpredictable. She may daydream a lot and, be forgetful.   Dreams at night may seem unusually bizarre, perhaps filled with disasters involving herself and her baby. These are not vile omens. It is simply that sleep in pregnancy is often lighter, more wakeful and the dreamer remembers more of her “adventures” when sleep is disturbed.   A Read more [...]

Diet to be followed during pregnancy

May6
Pregnancy is one of the normal physiological processes in a woman’s life cycle and therefore the diet of an expectant mother should also be based on and planned according to the basic principles of a balanced diet for any normal woman.   There are no restrictions on any food as long as she enjoys eating it, and the pregnancy is without any complications. A pregnant lady can eat all foods that are available to her family provided all the essential nutrients or elements are included Read more [...]

It Is Difficult For Men Too…

Apr29
If a child gives birth to a mother, then it also makes a father. Being a father in a men’s life is something new which he has never undergone before. During the gestational process there are changes in men which are often neglected due to focus on women in her gestational period.   It’s difficult for men to deal with the emotions; to share up their feelings. During pregnancy, a man has to handle the emotional changes in women along with the physical changes.   Accepting Read more [...]

Drugs In Pregnancy

Apr29
Mother is the source of supply for the growing fetus. The supplies of nutrients, water which are essential for the fetal growth are supplied by the mother through placenta to the growing fetus. Anything that the mother is taking in the body is supplied to the fetus so it is very important for the mother to take care of what she is taking in. Similarly, the drugs which are taken in by the mother via any route, it may affect the fetus by crossing the placenta and reaching the fetus. Possibility Read more [...]

Common illnesses related to pregnancy

Feb27
ANEMIA A deficiency of red blood cells that makes you feel tired and look pale. Iron deficiency anemia can be caused by menstruation when loss of blood depletes reserves of iron. The demands of the growing fetus can deplete these reserves even more — that’s why iron supplements are often prescribed in pregnancy. Iron-rich foods — spinach, eggs, liver, for example — are important.   Another type of anemia can be caused by a deficiency of folic acid (also found in liver and Read more [...]

What you need to know about gestational diabetes

Feb26
    What is it gestational diabetes?   A certain kind of diabetes called gestational diabetes strikes women while they are pregnant. Typically, the quantity of blood sugar is regulated by a hormone known as insulin. But, in pregnancy, a few women have a moderately increased quantity of blood sugar compared with normal, and their bodies can’t at all times create adequate insulin to control it .   Diabetes is also of the following two types: Type 1 and Type Read more [...]

Understanding the signs of true labor

Feb25
    The process of labor and delivery is likely to be the most amazing physical and emotional adventure most women experience.   Labor is divided into three stages:   The first is from onset of regular, strong uterine contractions to full dilation of the cervix - that is, until the neck of the uterus is stretched wide enough to allow the baby’s head to pass through.   Stage two is from full dilation of the cervix until the baby is born via the Read more [...]

Two’s a couple….three is a family: experience of parenthood

Feb23
    Parenthood is an affair between two people generally—the mother and father, and so it is an experience that should be shared between the two parents. Most fathers-to-be are solicitous and very protective about their wives at least when the first child is being born. Often this period brings both the parents closer.   It is after the baby’s birth—when a woman’s physical and emotional energy is absorbed with the child, that the father may feel neglected. Often Read more [...]

Purpose of Post-natal exercises: aim and essential points to remember

Feb21
    This article explains some simple course of exercises, to be performed for six weeks from the first day of delivery. By doing these exercises a mother is giving herself treatment, and with time she is up and about, feel she can face her added domestic responsibilities with confidence.   The aims of the exercises are:   to strengthen muscles, particularly those stretched during pregnancy of labor, i.e., abdominal and perineal; to reduce excessive fat; to Read more [...]