This is PART 1 of our series. PART 2 and PART 3 can be found here.
The experience and feeling of developing a new life inside your body is just so wonderful, even if you don't feel better all the time. It's a long journey of around 40 weeks. Your pregnancy is calculated from the first day of your last menstrual period, which is called as gestational age. Gestational age is considered to determine the growth of the developing baby, which also...
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...
Last few weeks of pregnancy make you excited as well as anxious. It's so difficult to kill those last days of pregnancy as lots of worries surround you about delivery, the baby's health, responsibility, and many more. As free-mind gets a lots of thoughts, so try to indulge in some activity that makes you busy and happy. Don't stress out, only few more days and your baby is in your arms, just little more patience.
Here are some tips that may help...
In this nine months pregnancy period, your body goes through a lots of transformation like weight gain, expanding belly, breast changes, hormonal changes, and many more. Some women have more noticeable changes than others, as it varies from person to person. These changes are to protect, grow, and develop your baby safely. So let's look at some of the basic changes that your body goes through during pregnancy which are as follows: BREAST...
As soon as you come to know that you are pregnant, apart from lots of happiness, many questions or worries also surround you like What to eat? What to avoid? Should I exercise? Can I have sex during pregnancy? And many more. For your baby's better development you need to be a little careful from the beginning till the end of your pregnancy. Following are some of the do's and don'ts which you must know about:
DO'S for a safer pregnancy:
Do Take...
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...
To feed milk to your newly born baby through your breast is called as breastfeeding or nursing. Doctors recommend breastfeeding minimum for a period of 6 months and you can continue till 1 year including other solid foods. Every baby prefers different time, like some take small feeding while others take longer. But in general, newborn needs feed after every 2-3 hours, 2 months old needs feed after 3-4 hours and 6 months old needs feed after 4-5...
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...
Today, Let's talk about your diet during pregnancy :
We all know that eating healthy is important for everyone, especially if it's the case of pregnancy. During pregnancy, your body goes through so many changes, so a nutritious and well-balanced diet is very important for your health as well as for the developing baby. At this point, you need to have a closer look at "what you should eat?" And "what to avoid?" Sometimes it's mistaken that you...
