Your Baby
Week by week, your baby is changing rapidly. By the end of the second month of pregnancy, your baby will begin to have the appearance of a tiny human being. At this point, your baby is referred to as a fetus. Early on in the second month, your baby’s heart will begin to beat and can be seen during an ultrasound. Your baby is developing eyelids, which will stay shut for some time. During the second month of pregnancy, your baby will begin to develop all of his major organs, including the brain, stomach, and lungs. Toes and fingers are also forming during this time. By the end of the second month, bone cells are beginning to form. Your baby will be about one inch long and will weigh less than one ounce at the end of this month.
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What Are the 6 Main Female Body Shapes?
Throughout history, female body shapes have played a large role in the way that women look at themselves. In fact, they have influenced the way that others look at them as well. The roles female body shapes play have far-reaching effects in determining a woman’s role in life, her exercise routine, and the clothes she wears.
Certain industries including entertainment and fashion are fixated on the female’s perfect body weight or perfect body shape. Over the years, women with the perfect hourglass figure have been sought after time and time again. Not only have these industries searched for perfect hourglasses, but also women have consistently attempted to achieve the perfect hourglass shape.
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It can be a tough job being pregnant. Not only have you got yourself to look after, with a body that is constantly changing and strange pregnancy symptoms you hadn’t expected, but there’s an added growing individual inside, making additional demands on you. And with many women also trying to work and look after a family, it’s not surprising that stress occurs! But whilst a bit of stress is normal, too much could impact on both you and your baby, so just how can you learn to relax and unwind?
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With the new information that increasing your calcium intake helps your body to burn fat, and whittle your waistline, many more people are making it a point to get their three servings a day of milk and dairy products. However, people who are lactose intolerant, or simply don’t like milk or dairy, find this a difficult task, even with all the new calcium enriched foods on the market. What many people don’t know though, is that calcium is found in many other sources, and it is quite easy to fit them into your diet.
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Pregnancy is a wonderful, exciting and sometimes scary journey. Want to keep this time fresh in your memory? Or just keep information about events that occurred during this time? Document the journey in a pregnancy journal.
How to Journal Your Pregnancy
The reasons for journaling during pregnancy are many. Keep notes on nutrition and changes such as weight, mood and whether you were upset or not is important information not only for you, but for your doctor as well.
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Posted in 1st Trimester, 2nd Trimester, 3rd Trimester | Tagged binder, craft stores, information, journaling tips, journey, paper, pregnancy journal, staples, time document, weight | Using advanced technology, doctors are now able to test newborn babies for hearing loss fairly accurately, and at very low costs.
Typically, testing will be performed when a newborn is considered “at risk” due to related hearing loss circumstances involving one or both of the parents, or when a disease, infection or condition occurs during pregnancy that might cause hearing loss.
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Posted in 1st Trimester, 2nd Trimester, 3rd Trimester, Genetics | Tagged awareness, condition, hearing loss in children, hearing problem, learning, learning disability, Loss, newborn babies, problem, using advanced technology | You wake up in the morning feeling queasy and nauseous. The odor of coffee brewing turns your stomach and the thought of cooking eggs makes you lose your appetite. These are signs of morning sickness. If you already know you’re pregnant then you are quickly becoming accustomed to dealing with morning sickness. If you haven’t been to the doctor yet or taken a pregnancy test, you may want to consider doing so especially if you’ve missed a monthly period or are late. Some women who experience irregular cycles of menstruation may not suspect pregnancy based solely on a late period.
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In the time that it takes to carry a baby to term, many unforeseen events can unfold, including the death of a close family member or friend. Sadly, there is not much literature on the topic. I know about this first-hand. When I was four months pregnant with my first child, my older brother died as the result of injuries sustained in a tragic fall. I searched for information on grief and pregnancy, but all that I seemed to come across were articles on miscarriage. Because of my difficult struggle for information, I wish to share with you what I learned and experienced in my journey in hopes that you will be able to take comfort in the fact that somebody “gets” it and, hopefully, find a little guidance in my words.
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Posted in 1st Trimester, 2nd Trimester, 3rd Trimester, Depression | Tagged dealing with grief, death, information, joy, minimal experience, person, pregnancy, tragic fall, unforeseen events, ups and downs | What are stretch marks?
Stretch marks are lines on the skin caused when the tissue beneath the skin is stretched by rapid growth, disrupting the skin’s production of collagen. Skin is made up of here layers of skin; the outer layer (epidermis), middle (dermis) and the inner layer. Stretch marks occur in the dermis when it is over-stretched and becomes increasingly elastic, eventually refusing to go back into its original shape and causing the lines we know as stretch marks. This may happen during puberty, pregnancy or simply as the result of gaining a lot of weight in a short time. Stretch marks may often start of as red or purple lines but generally grow paler and less noticeable with time.
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Throughout history, women have searched for natural methods that would make labor and childbirth less difficult. Raspberry leaf tea has been used by pregnant women for centuries to tone and strengthen the uterus. This can help make labor more efficient and possibly lessen the amount of time a woman is in labor. There have only been a few scientific studies on the effects of raspberry leaf tea during pregnancy, and the results were somewhat inconclusive as to whether or not the tea truly shortened the labor process. However, many midwives and mothers swear by raspberry leaf tea and would recommend it to any pregnant woman.
Besides its toning effect on the uterus, raspberry leaf tea is also thought to have many other benefits for pregnant women. Raspberry leaf tea is full of vitamins and minerals such as calcium, magnesium, iron, manganese, vitamin E, vitamin B1, and vitamin B3, all of which are beneficial to your health and your baby‘s development. Drinking raspberry leaf tea can help lessen bleeding gums and nosebleeds, which are common occurrences during pregnancy.
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