Pregnancy and maternity

The first month of life: necessary things

2008-03-11T02:14:00.000-07:00

Here is a list of things that were useful to me in the first month.

Clothes

· Bodies. Very comfortable things they are. We have bought bodies with snaps. By the way, snaps are much more comfortable, than buttons, particularly those ones with backlash so that there are no fasteners on a tummy and on a back.

· Overalls with snaps on the shoulders and on the bottom. It is very comfortable to change pampers: we unsnap it on the bottom, wash the baby and then quickly clasp. The child has no even time to become too cold. In the first weeks of life while thermoregulation is not adjusted yet overcooling is dangerous.

· Baby's undershirts on fasteners. We dressed them on the body, when the baby was not in diapers.

· Crowlers

· Socks

· Diapers. First time it is better to swaddle the kiddy – he (she) is more at his (her) ease and more warm. Some time later the kid will show you by itself that it wants more freedom and you’ll start getting on clothes on it. By the way, when it’s warm you can use baby's undershirts without fasteners for swaddling. We had 5 thin and five flannel diapers from beginning, then mum bought in addition some more and they were not out of place.

· A bath towel, a cap, a woolen scarf - to turn the baby for a walk.

Stuff

· A little bath and a bath-rack.

· Bathing set - a warm towel for wiping a baby dry after bathing is the most comfortable thing.

· Sleeping bag - I used it only once when having a walk with the daughter and then convert it into a covering on a swaddling table.

· Baby carriage. In the winter it’s not comfortable to walk in sling. Sling presupposes a free position for the child, and a baby packed in diapers is not in free position by definition.

· Sling. It’s very comfortable to use it inside. It is even possible to do

housekeeping with a baby in sling.

· Overlays for gathering milk. First time when a hyperlactation is they just rescue us inserted into a brassiere. By the way, at that time a brassiere for breast- feeding is of much service.

· Linings for a breast. They are helpful when milk flows out.

· Small bottles. I collect decanted milk in them and freeze it.

· A dummy. I’ve already written about it.

Pampers, disposable diapers, a children's cream, powder, Blackstonia

and hydrogen peroxide will also be at use.

It seems that I’ve forgotten nothing.

Lactation and the size of breast

2008-03-11T02:13:00.000-07:00

As a matter of fact breast-feeding is very pleasant and natural. But there are some moments that it is important to know to avoid problems.

I know from my own experience, that it is necessary to listen to those around you less and to pay more attention to your own feelings. What has occurred?

I have read a lot of articles and realized that it is necessarily for the baby to receive both forepart and back-part milk; therefore a breast should be sucked dry. Even if the baby does not suck a breast "up to the end" it is necessary to give it once again for following feeding. Has begun I to do so (I’ve got a lot of milk)… and it has turned out, that I gave the right breast much more often the left one.

All in all one morning I wake up and saw in the mirror, that my right breast was of the fourth size and the left – of the second size and there was practically no milk in it. The sight was much far from pleasant!

My way of solving a problem

The end of this story was happy, otherwise I would not write . My breasts are already equal. To make them identical, I had to give the left breast more often than the right one, and draw off the left breast even after having nursed the baby from the right. Everything has settled into shape for two days. The main thing is - to watch that there was no stagnation of milk in the breast, from which you nurse less,

Now I pay much attention to alternation with breasts.

Such sort of warning for everybody.

Slingomammas

2008-03-10T06:25:00.000-07:00

Small comment of slings.

During pregnancy I have been precisely assured, that I would carry my kidling only in sling. The first month I did, and then it became very heavy to me. Having searched at forums, I decided, that it would be easier with ERGO baby Carrier, than with sling, and started searching for it. And so, after having contacts on different forums I have drawn very interesting conclusions

Well, first of all I was somehow confused with too much cocky tone of slingo mammas at the general forums. I even nearly extended the discontent to all slingomammas.

Then by chance I have come across association of slingomammas on LJ and I liked it. I read the posts, all the occupants seemed to me very amicable, none of them picked a fight and atmosphere was pleasant.

By and large slingomammas - these are mums that just as all other mums love their kids. With only one difference - they carry them in sling. And often suffer from those around them response.

I myself have noticed, that when I was walking with sling, I was stared at by all around just as at “the public enemy” and as soon as I started walking with a carriage – nobody paid attention to me, people took me in as a "sane" mum.

All in all, I’m going to get ERGO baby Carrier or some of the kind soon, and become again slingomamma!

Breastfeeding: the abstract

2008-03-10T06:23:00.000-07:00

Putting on weight

There are norms of rising of weight for children on artificial feeding. Children who are fed exclusively at the breast and on demand type put on weight individually, from 200 to 500 grammes a week. These are norms the CART. In this case it is necessary to support on personal sensations of mum, indices of baby’s maturity and its general condition.

Quantity of milk

If to feed the child on demand, milk should be enough. It is exactly so much milk, how much it is necessary for the child.

Quality of milk

Concerning the content of fat in milk and the presence of nutrients in him: in its structure maternal milk is ideal for the child. Anything else till 6 months it is not necessary to the child. Milk cannot be innutritious, "low-fat" even if mum starves. The female organism is arranged in such a way, that the child will receive substances necessary for it in any variant unless it is not fed “on hours” - usually at such ‘punctual’ scheme by three months milk vanishes and a mix has to be entered.

Fat content of milk

There is forpart and backpart milk: the forpart one is just like water, the backpart is dense and fat. If the breastfeeding is organized correctly the child would receive both kinds of milk.

There are recommendations, norms and standards of the CART, and they are checked up personally in practice.

To swaddle or not to swaddle a baby?

2008-03-10T06:19:00.000-07:00

I consider it essential to swaddle a baby up to a certain age. And here are my arguments.

Why is it necessary to swaddle?

In a tummy baby was in an uterus - it was in a free pose but compressed enough by a bubble. Besides, it was in the warm. From this, in my opinion, follows, that after a birth for smoother accustoming to new environment for the small person, it should be swaddled - so it will be in the warm, and it will be compressed.

But there is a nuance, and it consists in a free pose - arms are folded on its chest, feet are free.

My experience

I swaddled my daughter in the first and second months of her life, and I continue to do it now from time to time, but now I see, that necessity for it is becoming less. Now I do it more like for convenience and warmth. I undress my baby’s bottom for doing her little business, and it demands possibility of fast undressing. For example, to take off thin crawlers and two diapers from the baby is much faster, than to take off knitted trousers. The difference in behavior of the swaddled child and the child dressed free is evident. In the first case the baby is cheerful and quiet in the second - it is excited and cannot fall asleep.

Somebody or others’ babies lay quietly without diapers. My personal experience has shown the opposite. Moreover - there is the essential moment: for all that there is an experience of generations. Babies were always swaddled in diapers, but not dressed in crawlers . Probably there were certain reasons for this.

How do you think?

Pregnancy calendar - the first month

2007-09-14T02:30:00.000-07:00

In the first month of pregnancy 80% of women do not know if it is pregnancy for sure yet. After all one thing is to plan, another – to know precisely.

The first month of pregnancy - symptoms
There are certain symptoms of pregnancy which can appear already on the first month. It may be feeling of weight in stomach, and many other things. There may be no symptoms at all – everything is individual for each woman. Therefore it is possible to determine pregnancy precisely only having made pregnancy test.

The first month of a life
In the first month of a life the child is strictly speaking not the child yet, it is an embryo. The cell from which the future child will grow is sharing and growing. Then it ties to the mother. This process is called implantation. After that, the embryo starts to grow and develop actively, the placenta starts to grow, there is an attachment to it by means of an umbilical cord.

The first month of pregnancy - sex
Sex in the first month of pregnancy is not forbidden. The only thing that it is necessary to remember - the reasonable care. If you had abortions on early terms - refrain from sex in the first month. So you will save up a life to the child and nerves to yourselves. Besides, the organism of each woman knows very well what is possible and what is not – just listen to it. When sex is possible, there is a desire, and on the contrary. Listen to yourself.

The first month of pregnancy - food
It is necessary to refuse from sharp dishes, fried food, flour. Probably, you suffer from the toxicosis. If so, you perfectly know yourself, what food it is possible for you. For example I could not eat carrots. Naturally, it is necessary to refuse from alcohol. Though say, that on the first month alcohol is still possible, as the child yet does not receive a food from a parent organism, and grows at the expense of nutrients which have collected his cell. But I would not risk.

Weight increase - the first month
Increases in weight is strictly individual indicator. On the first month the increase can be caused by overeating or hormonal changes in an organism. The kid is still absolutely tiny and weighs almost nothing (few milligram’s), therefore it cannot cause neither an increase in weight, nor tummy increase.

Flu and cold- the first months of pregnancy
On the first month of pregnancy the rule «all or anything» operates. Therefore if you have caught flu or respiratory disease on the first month of pregnancy and have not lost the pregnancy, you can not worry about possible pathologies of future baby - if it has survived, everything will be alright with him.

Happy pregnancy!

Weight increases during pregnancy

2007-09-08T02:40:00.000-07:00

It’s an interesting and exciting question - how much extra weight it is normal to add during pregnancy?

The norm, in my opinion, - in general is a fragile thing which can not be given an accurate definition. The normal increase in weight during pregnancy is considered to be 10-15 kg. And there are even norms of weight increase by trimesters:

in the first trimester – not more than 2 kilogram’s,
in the second – not more than 6 kilogram’s
in the third – not more than 7 kilogram’s.

This classification seems to me a little farfetched for these reasons: to speak about norms of an increase weight, it is necessary to define an initial norm of weight.
Here on this site there are some ways of definition of weight.

As far as I know, such understanding is standard:
Normal Weight = Height in cm - 100.

That is, if you are 165 cm in height, your normal weight it is considered 65. If to express it in sizes it turns out approximately 48-50. As for me, it is too much.

I am 167 height and I think optimum weight for me (that is at which I feel comfortably and me anything does not press me anywhere) is 52-54 kilogram’s, that approximately corresponds 42-44 clothing size. And at transition to 44th size I already start to feel fat, it is unpleasant to say shortly.

For this reason a question arises: is it possible to speak about an identical increase in weight during pregnancy for women of 42th and 50th the size?

Certainly, I cannot do active exercises and go on an a good diet on a week, that’s why I’m getting some extra weight. For my 34 weeks I’ve got extra 8.5 kilos. My doctor considers that it is too much. But I think it’s strictly individual.

Every woman is unique and you don’t have to correspond any norms.

Pregnancy symptoms

2007-09-07T00:43:00.000-07:00

Let's try to understand, what pregnancy symptoms are. This post is not only for those who don’t know yet if she is pregnant. It is article for everyone. There can be someone on the eighth month, which distinguishes any symptoms at her and will understand that is not bad character, it is pregnancy!

First trimester

The reaction of an organism to pregnancy is various at each woman. Woman’s body is strictly individual system. If your girl friend told that she had a stomach ache and then it appeared that it’s pregnancy, it doesn’t mean that your stomach ache also means pregnancy.
Therefore I’d like to emphasizeat once, that the pregnancy test is the only true symptom of pregnancy.

But in general, such symptoms may happen:

Pain and swelling of mammary glands.
Weight in the bottom of a stomach.
Ease in the bottom of a stomach, uncharacteristic for your days before menstruation.
Nausea and vomiting (if you have not poisoned)
Appetite distortion
Nervousness
The high spirits of unusually causeless
Feeling of "miracle" in a stomach
Stomach swelling
Lock
Heartburn
Drowsiness
Sentimentality

And this list can be continued infinitely. By the way, I will notice that not all pregnant women have any symptoms at all.

On the late terms

Because of the hormonal background changes, the nervous system can give failures. For example, there can be an excessive sentimentality or an impressionability. Some have a depression in connection with a new condition.
The main thing is to understand it and to realize, that it is "hormones". Then nothing threatens you.

Good luck and be healthy!

Pregnancy test – how to use

2007-09-01T01:31:00.000-07:00

So, let's throw light on a question: what is the pregnancy test and how to use it. At once I’d like to notice, that the test can define pregnancy only from first day of a delay of the menstruation. Not earlier! Earlier - only the blood analysis, and even that not always accurately.

Different kinds of tests

There are a huge set of any different tests. I use the ordinary, the most simple and the cheapest test, that cost only 50 cents. And never has he deceived me. Though it happens, that even the most expensive test give wrong results. Basically, if to follow logic, the more expensively the test, the more accurate it is. But I prefer to follow the experience. Finally, all the same the test for pregnancy is simply an intermediate stage. All the same you will have to pass blood analysis from finger and this will give really precise result.
The test for pregnancy is a thin cardboard stick with a mark.

How it to use?
In the morning first of all collect the first urine in a jar or, for example, in a plastic glass. Then lower the test in this jar or a glass approximately for 5 seconds. It’s important to lower it there only by a mark, not further, otherwise you will spoil the test. After that pour out your urine, and let the test is postponed for 2 minutes on a dry surface «on ripening».
It ripens 2-3 minutes.

How to interpret result?
Of course, according to the instruction on the box. If there is one strip - it means pregnancy is not present. If there are two strips - it means that you are pregnant. The test yields results from 95 % a guarantee. It means that in 5 % of cases he can be mistaken.
In more difficult cases when the second strip is hardly visible, it is necessary to make one more test. Probably, it is necessary to repeat testing later.

So, I wrote what is necessary to know about pregnancy tests.

To be continued.

“Biggest Loser Club” or good weight lose idea

2007-08-25T13:19:00.000-07:00

It's little not in the topic of my blog, but I just can't stand telling you this.
I think you know, that many people suffer from problems with weight. It's not so easy to fight with it. Advertisement tells a lot about wonders: tablets, diets, slim pants and so on.

Personally I don’t believe this at all. Hope, you too =)

Recently me and a good friend of mine were looking for a weight loss programs, and found a real weight loosing club. Then we've read about it and we liked it. My friend joined the club.

So, yesterday I was talking to my friend and he told me some words about this club. To be short - he is satisfied. And I would like to share with you some ideas concerning fight with extra weight, exactly why weight-loosing club is better then other extra weight fighting programs.

- Probably, the most important is that you are not alone in the club. You conversate with others and try to help each other.

- There is some kind of coach in a club. He will explain you everything, he will track your progress and shall change your program if something goes wrong.

- Motivation. You see the changes in your club mates with your own eyes. This helps very much to follow your goal.

So, going back to my friend's story. In this club a natural and safe system of weight loss is used.
For those who join the club the individual diet is made up for free (not too strict, as my friend says). Also there are tasty natural recipes offered, a complex of physical exercises and a personal progress journal.

As for me, it's the most natural and simple way to loose extra weight. You eat correctly, you do
some sports, you are in the team of people who is similar to you. By the way - there's no need to have extra weight to join such club.
As my friend says, this club helps to eat correctly and to go on doing physical exercises - it's a correct lifestyle. Also he got acquainted with people who has lost a good portion of extra weight during several months and go on carrying correct lifestyle.
Hope, my post will help someone. So, to join the club - click here (meet my friend ;). If you have friends, who would like to become more healthy - give then a link to this article.
Good luck and be healthy!

How many children are too much?

2007-08-16T06:41:00.000-07:00

I was inspired on this article by a film "The Bridge". A film was about a life of the boy from a large family and about his friendship with the girl. His family consisted of mother, father and their seven children. They lived very poorly. It hardly sufficed on meal, not speaking about any other needs, for example, new boots. Children wore everything one after another.

The boy was exposed to constant mockeries on this soil at school, it was impossible for him to find friends. His life was changed by friendship with the new schoolmate who died at the end of a film.

I would like to stop on a question of planning of a family: how much children it is possible to have.
The question which, probably, everyone sets himself though time in his life.

Positive side.

The more children - the better. The more cheerful you are in an old age, there are more grandchildren. And in general, children are flowers of life.

Reality.

Let’s look at a situation seriously. And, deciding whether to stop using contraception and give birth to one more child, first of all think about his comfort in the future.
Even if it seems to you, that you will overcome any difficulties, do not be such assured in it.

Simply you did not meet real financial difficulties yet and haven’t been in position of the child which suffers not only form lack of cloths or facilities or good food, but also from lack of parent’s love and attention, what is caused by parent’s workload, which they have to take just to be able to feed their poor children. It’s a closed circle. Be aware of getting in it.

As a conclusion, I’d like to tell: it’s happiness to give life to as many children as you can. But making the decision, think with your mind, not only with heart. Give life to as much children, as you will be able to give good conditions of living: food, cloths, education, your love – nothing extra, just needed. Don’t make new people to suffer.

Pregnancy: how to keep calm. Physiological issues.

2007-08-15T23:26:00.000-07:00

In this post I’d like to tell you how to keep your emotions calm, when you experience some new unpleasant feelings during pregnancy.

- Toxicosis, frequent emictions, uncontrolled desire to eat
It often happens, especially if the toxicosis has begun, that woman blames the child for her state, whatever desired and long-awaited was the pregnancy. Standard recommendations about reduction of symptoms of a toxicosis are – to eat the small portions, the first meal of a day – in the bad, to have more rest, to be on fresh air. And psychologically it is necessary to try to separate the child from these symptoms. It is simply necessary to go through.

- Everything simply irritates
This may also happen in the first trimester. It seems, that the husband is insufficiently attentive, dogs bark loudly, the wind rustles as though purposely, the neighbor does not allow to have a sleep, people are foolish and rude … These are hormonal changes. Remember the time, when you were teenager. Then you had such an irritability. Try not to project the irritation on native people. In the second trimester it will seem silly to you. Do not concentrate on the irritation – after all it is much easier to give yourself to an impulse, than not to. To calm down – stay alone, take a walk in the park. In general, understanding of the reasons of your emotions is a key to the decision.

- Your linear sizes
In the first trimester it happens that you look like a person who ate three dinners at once, and not as pregnant. Personally I was ready to look like pregnant at once, not as fat girl. The problem came, when it turned out, that I "have not grown" from the clothes yet, but they all sit ugly on me; but it was though still early to buy «pregnant clothes». And this irritated me much. If you face this – believe, it is just for a short while, by fourth month everything already goes on it’s places.

So, that’s all. I will be very glad, if these ideas will help you.
Always remember: pregnancy is short. Soon you will meet your (I’m sure) beloved little child.

Pregnancy: how to keep calm. Communication issues.

2007-08-14T23:30:00.000-07:00

In this post I would like to discuss an important issue which sometimes cannot be lifted. It seems to me, it is included into the list «We do not talk about this aloud». Or speak, but only when there are serious problems and it is necessary to be treated.

You now, every experienced mummy would say, that many problems with health of the kid could have been avoided, if they had put nerves in order in time.
Emotional instability of pregnant women has a hormonal background. The nervous system, in turn, does not remain in a debt and answers with stress changes in an organism.
And after all, the child is inseparably linked with mummy. Hence, all her moods affect him, both - good, and bad. And even despite this knowledge often it happens difficult to stay calm.
This question during the first trimester of pregnancy is especially important.
As I am already in the third trimester and I am calm, as an elephant. I can share some experience in this question.
I can tell nothing about feelings of the woman, which is unsure whether to leave the child or not, it is unfamiliar to me. Therefore I would stop on such initial data: pregnancy is desired (or already desired), health is basically in norm and you’ve got support from native people. What problems you may face?

Communication. Don’t tell anyone, except your husband before the pregnancy is seen.

People say «It is strictly forbidden to tell about pregnancy until it can be seen well».
Me and my husband thought it was a kind of joke. But then, it appeared that it’s serious.
We told my parents on the fifth week when have been completely assured in it. Mum was happy, though worried, and the daddy was not against, though in its opinion we have hastened. We were afraid that we’ll offend them if we don’t tell. Actually, now I understand that we were wrong. It was necessary to tell, only when it would be appreciable. For what reasons?

The reaction of the family is important.

And if it distinct from rough pleasure, it may be harmful for pregnant woman, with her unstable feelings. Especially in the beginning of pregnancy when everything is new.

Your friends.

Sometimes friends can envy. For example, if they want a child but cannot concept. Second, it is better not to speak at least during the first trimester about your pregnancy, so that in case of failure, it would be nothing to explain. If you want to share you happiness so much –register at a forum where nobody knows you and share it =)

Are you READY for marriage?

2007-08-04T04:29:00.000-07:00

Sometimes it happens, that people meet already for a long time, but still are not married. The reason is “I’m not ready yet” from one or another side.
Here I don’t emphasize on an official part of creating a family. As for me – it’s not so important. I just want to tell my thoughts about what does “I’m not ready yet” mean if it concerns creating a family at all.

From one size – it’s completely correct not to hurry in such important question as creating a family. From the other side – sometimes it happens that people “don’t hurry” for so long, that once they realize that don’t want to create family at all.

One or two years of meeting is optimal. For this period it is possible to know each other enough, to understand your feelings to him or her and to make final decision.

If we concern a period less than one year, the danger is that people are still in love, and unable to think clearly about the partner. If the period of meeting is more than 2 years – people know each other too well to marry.

If people aged 25-35 years meet more than 3-4 years and don’t marry, this means thet both are satisfied. Or one of them is satisfied with this situation and other is patiently waiting for any changes.

It’s important to look at the situation clearly. Nothing hard is in wish to connect our whole lie with beloved person. Here is nothing special to get preparing for so long. Here are some reasons why people sometimes aren’t ready for marriage.

Let’s try to classify them.

It’s all about finance

As an example: students, or people who don’t have enough money to hold a family. It worth waiting for several years.
To think about: if you talk about the need of making money, but don’t do anything with this, maybe something is wrong. Maybe your partner just doesn’t want to marry.

It’s all in your head

As an example: Your partner cold have a negative experience with his former family. Or he’s just afraid to break the habits of his lonely life.
These are psychological problems, this may last for many years.
In such situation you may try to help your partner overcome the problem. But if you did your best and nothing changes – don’t waist your life.

Good luck!

How to avoid flu and cold while pregnancy?

2007-07-25T09:26:00.000-07:00

Flu is a viral disease. It can penetrate through a placenta and result in genetic changes of a future child, is especial before sixth month. Cold does not carry such danger, but nevertheless threatens with possible loss of a child because of high temperature and lack of water in organism. Therefore the question of preventive maintenance of flu and cold diseases is very important for pregnant and planning pairs.

We planned pregnancy. But one moment we understood that we can not wait till May. Therefore the first months of our pregnancy came for January and February - time when everyone around sneezes, coughs and infects each other. A lot of fears then were brought by ideas what will be if will catch flu and how to avoid this.
At once I shall tell, that neither me nor my husband haven’t fallen ill since November 2006 at all. It seems to me, a considerable role in it was played by preventive measures we took. These are very simple and effective steps. So, what particularly we have done.
1. We conduct a healthy correct way of life. In our execution this sounded like as refusal of meat, daily physical exercises and water procedures, and also a high-quality various feed. And took short supporting courses of vitamins.
2. During epidemic of a flu and cold garlic and onion were always welcome. When we came home, first of all put off outer clothing and washed hands and face with flowing water. On these places all microorganisms gather. Then - changed clothes to domestic clothes. At supper we actively used garlic and onions. There are many useful and healthy recipes of dishes in which garlic is used. Garlic and an onion contain natural antiviral and antibacterial substances. Besides for preventive maintenance, a plate with garlic almost constantly stood near bed.
Garlic and onions actually became unique and basic means of preventive of flu during pregnancy.
Still I shall advise an excellent way to be health, - douche by cold water.
I think it is useful to share experience of preventive measures. Such approach has helped us.
Be healthy!

Chidbirth and Our Psychological Age

2007-07-24T00:33:00.000-07:00

An interesting question: how pregnancy and a birth of the child influences psychological age of his parents?

The first intuitive answer is like this: if mummy is young, especially if it is her first pregnancy – it adds maturities and wisdom (as in my case … I’m joking =)); if it is late child, the woman as though comes back in the youth, - time to give birth, determined by the nature.
Nevertheless, such conclusions by the further consideration appeared not absolutely correct. And I have decided to share some of my observations with you.
Case number 1, confirming.
A friend of mine, a girl who got married when she was 16 years old and became pregnant at once after wedding. If it is fair, such consciousness and the serious attitude to family and to the childbirth, I have not see even from adult mums who were about 30-35 years old. She’s a case of real female wisdom. It’s is remarkable, that anything similar was not observed from her before. She was absolutely usual teenager. Such a wonderful transformation!
Though it is said, that the first child for young mother is the last toy.
Case number 2, denying.
Here’s a story of a woman who has born her first child when she was 42. In my point of view, it’s improper age for childbirth, it may be even dangerous. Especially, taking into account, that she had no one to help her.
For this woman a child was always only a trouble. She gained no wisdom or happiness and clearly has not become younger, just got additional wrinkles and grey hair because of the birth of the child.
So, it’s hard to make any conclusion. What do you think?

9 easy things to do for successful conception!

2007-07-19T06:48:00.000-07:00

One perfect day, my husband and I began to think about childbirth seriously. That day we consider the beginning of our planning. At a certain age, such questions become very important. For me this age was twenty, my husband was then 24. Maybe someone would say, “Too young”, but I think that never is too early. It can be too late.

So we began searching the Internet for the information on the issue what we should do to plan the pregnancy. We’ve met quite different opinions. In this article I’d like to share our lucky experience and tell what we’ve done. In my opinion, everyone who is going to make a child must do this.

1. Stop taking alcohol, drugs, smoking.

I think, without comments. Nothing justifies the harm it may cause to a future child.
In my point of view, future mother and father should stop smoking at least three months before conception. Better is not to smoke at all. My husband and I don’t smoke at all.

2. Check for the presence of genital infections – both of future parents.

3. Check for antibodies against rubella, cytomegalovirus and toxoplasmosis (and make the necessary immunizations if no antibodies)

I passed the tests; it cost me about 70 dollars and found that I have antibodies.

4. Start to eat and drink vitamin complexes (especially folic acid).

Folic acid is essential for the normal formation of neural tube fetus in the first trimester of pregnancy. It is recommended to drink it in advance. But we did not.
Instead, we got natural vitamins from fruits and vegetables. I think it’s better.

5. Visit a dentist!!! Having teeth repaired during pregnancy - dubious pleasure.

6. Visit therapist for a general survey.

Make common clinical blood analysis (hemoglobin, and so on). It’s when a nurse takes blood from finger.
7. Measuring basal temperature (BT)

That’s what I would strongly advise not to do. Often results are incorrectly interpreted and you may begin thinking: “Perhaps nothing will come of this month ". It creates the mood for a failure to do so would not arise. Generally, conception is quite natural and normal, don’t worry in advance.
8. If possible, avoid chemicals, medicines and hot baths.

9. Pay attention to your nutrition.

Anyway, during pregnancy, you will have to change the eating habits: remove fatty, fried, salty, sharp, and sweet, with preservatives, aerated water, and alcohol. There are so many seasonal vegetables and fruits. It's a proven strategy that has worked for thousands of others. It's easy, it's delicious ...Get your own Personal Chef!
Believe it or not, you will feel much better and easier to experience this transition, if you do this before pregnancy. Indeed, the transition to unaccustomed to the food is also stress to the body.

As a conclusion I’d like to wish good luck to all of you, who is desperately trying to make a child or only reading and planning. Try following these advices and everything will be okay. In our case they helped. Now we are waiting for a child =)

P.S. Don’t forget to have sex! =)

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2007-07-19T04:36:00.000-07:00

Hello!

My name is Sonja. At the moment, I can determine my position as happy future mother. I’ve decided to begin my own blog to share my knowledge about pregnancy, child-birth, maternity and some aspects of family psychology and relationship.

I’ve got many materials on these issues and would like to give you my ideas about this information, because there are many unambiguous things concerning very important questions, such as upbringing a child, breast feeding, and so on. I’ve read much about it, but never found any moderate position. So, in this blog I’d like to share my ideas, knowledge and experience with you.