How to Lessen the Appearance of Caesarean Scars

If you had a C-section to deliver your baby, then having a scar from the incision tells the story and is perfectly normal. As with any surgery, it's very important to take care of the incisions which will help to reduce or minimize the scarring. I hate to tell you, but C-section scars won't go away completely. They will usually fade with time and become a thin line. Now, depending on your skin type, they may not fade away on their own, and some...

Healing after a Miscarriage

Feeling of miscarriage is far more painful than anything you can expect. It not only affects you physically but shatters you emotionally as well. The loss of the pregnancy comes with many emotions like anger, guilt, sadness, disappointment, depression, etc. It's ok to grieve or mourn, because it takes time to come out from this loss. You may take a few weeks or even months to recover physically (that depends upon how far along the miscarriage...

10 Things I wish I knew before I had my First Baby

It was rightly said that parenting is not easy. You start realizing this, once you have your own baby in your hands. Your responsibilities start from that very first day of becoming a mom. Your expectations of managing everything and reality is totally different. Your whole day is spent by just feeding, cleaning pees and poops of your new born baby. It gets really tough for you to manage everything (feeding baby, cooking, laundry, and many more...

Sleeping Positions During Pregnancy

Most of the women experience problematic sleep during pregnancy especially in the second or third trimester. It gets difficult to find a comfortable position, as some positions are ok in the first trimester, while these get problematic in second and third trimester. Apart from many other changes, you also need to make changes in your sleeping position as pregnancy proceeds. Let's just discuss these in details: STOMACH SLEEPING POSITION: Many...

Let’s talk about Mental Health – During Pregnancy

Mental health in pregnancy Pregnancy comes up with a lots of physical or emotional changes. You can deal with those changes only by taking care of your physical and mental health. During pregnancy, just taking care of your physical health is not sufficient, you need to take care of your mental health as well. If you are mentally strong and happy, then you can easily deal with those pregnancy changes. But if you are not, then those physical and...

Some of the simple pregnancy exercises you can do

During pregnancy, you have to deal with the bodily changes, mood swings, swelling, pain, constipation, trouble sleeping and many more problems that are not at all easy. Doing simple and little exercises is your way out for this. Yes! You read it right, some simple exercises during pregnancy benefits a lot. Studies suggest that pregnant women can do moderate exercise for about 30 minutes per day. Exercise helps to strengthen your body by...

Tips to keep yourself happy during pregnancy

From the moment you come to know that you are expecting, your life changes. Lots of thoughts and changes surround you like mood swings, bodily changes, trouble sleeping, anxiety, and worries about the baby, relationship, finances, and many more. On one end, it's a very beautiful phase of a woman's life whereas on the other end it's also a very nervous one too. Keeping yourself happy and calm during this phase is very important so that you can...