Pregnancy

Pregnant Safety Tips

After getting pregnant, you need some extra care for you and your baby. The early sign of pregnancy is known as amenorrhea (missing period). But the final decision is always related to pregnancy tests. In women’s life pregnancy period (about nine months) is very sensitive and important in connection with health and fitness. During week by week pregnancy stages, so many common complaints have to face by pregnant women. Here are some free women health tips for pregnant in order to protect their health.

Consult the Doctor for Early signs of Pregnancy

Among so many signs of pregnancy the first pregnancy sign is known as period missing. When ever you find amenorrhea; immediately   visit your doctor for tests to confirm pregnancy. Because, some times delayed menses are the result of some other illness instead of a sign of pregnancy. If pregnancy is confirmed by doctor then you are to take care for your health above the normal for yourself and the newborn baby. During this period your diet, your rest, your, sleep and emotional conditions are very much concerned to your health and safe pregnancy. Following pregnancy symptoms are prominent in pregnant women:-

Morning sickness

Due to smell of food or without any reason, vomiting and nausea is the common sign of pregnancy found in most of the women just after two weeks of commencing the pregnancy. In some rare cases it prolongs up to six months. If morning sickness persists for a long time, it may cause debility and weakness. Your doctor may help you medically as well as advising suitable pregnancy diet which may save your body from food starvation.

Lassitude and Weariness Feeling

During pregnancy feeling of tiredness and fatigue after little physical exertion is commonly observed. The reason is that your body has to work hard in order to produce hormones and blood supply to your baby. Among the hormones produced during pregnancy; progesterone is depressant causing drowsiness.

Sensitive to Food Smell

During pregnancy some women feel nausea and vomiting by smell of certain foods. Craving for un-natural things to eat is also found during this period

Frequent Urination

With enlargement of uterus pressure is build up on bladder which causes frequent urination urge.

Constipation Problem

During pregnancy constipation is common due to hormonal change making the digestive system slow. 

Head Pain

Hormonal change effects blood circulation in pregnant women causing mild headaches

Faintness

 Some women feel dizziness or faint in early days of their pregnancy caused by hormonal changes.

Change in Mood

During pregnancy women changes their moods frequently due to hormonal changes occurring in the body. They need extra attention care and love of their family members especially the husband. Irritability fear of some thing to be happen and sadness are common changes of mood. Frequently change of mood is also observed.

Breasts Hardness

Due to hormonal change breasts becomes tender and hard during pregnancy. Some times this condition is very troublesome not allowing lying on chest or even touching is unbearable. Size of beast also increased. In order to get relief, use good quality bra giving support to breasts be used. This tenderness is temporary and vanishes after some time. Importance of breast feeding is a universal truth; no feed can can be compared with breast milk as healthy and safe source of feed for a newborn baby. Again breast hardness may lead to painful condition when you stop breastfeeding you baby. the most helpful tool to solve the problem is considered breast pumps. By breast pumping is a nice method to relieve the pain at the time of weaning your baby off the breastfeed.

Pregnancy Stretch Marks

It is the main problem for which the ladies remain very much conscious and get worried about pregnancy stretch marks. Try to keep moisturized your skin with a good quality moisturizing cream. Improve water intake to avoid skin dryness and to get stretch marks.

Sleep Disorder

Being pregnant you may face sleep disorder. Some women feel insomnia due to hormonal change causing mood changing. The movement of baby may also disturb your sleep during pregnancy. Another common reason for sleep disorder is the fear of labor found in women expecting their first child. So you need more rest and sleep during this period.

Legs pain

During last trimester of pregnancy women have to carry extra weight which causes leg pain and some time is results into varicose veins.

Labor Pains

The most terrible and painful stage for a pregnant is labor pains during childbirth. The most common question asked is how to avoid labor pains. Labor pains can not be avoided at all, however its intensity can be lowered medically using pain killers and psychological by counseling.

Pregnant Safety during Hot Weather

In hot weather countries due to increase in temperature in summer, people have to face health problems and required to observe safety precautions in order to avoid any heat stroke or other summer related diseases.  Hot weather and warmth is most terrible for pregnant women.

Pregnancy week by week

Week by week pregnancy stages change; almost all stages of pregnancy, sensation of heat due to progesterone hormone and heat emitted by the fetus is very much prominent. So extra care is required for pregnant in summer and hot weather. Read on the following guidelines helpful to pregnant during summer season:-

Wear Easy Dresses

Wear comfortable clothes and under garments according to weather requirements and avoid wearing tight clothes like jeans and uneasy bra or under wears.

Wear Quality Dress

Quality of clothes should be nice and decent avoid synthetic clothes which may warm up easily.

Wear Easy and Safe Shoes

As regard to shoes, it should be comfortable, flexible and without long heal of ventilated design with fewer straps in order to avoid perspiration and heat. 

Room Temperature

It is necessary to have air conditioner / air cooler or at least fan at home and at work place to lower the temperature.

Keep Freshness in the Room

Use of air freshener in room is always having soothing sensation to feel.

Frequent Bathing

Frequent taking a shower and bathing may increase freshness and helpful to remove dirt promoting healthy skin and hairs.

Ventilation

Remove yourself to ventilated place under low temperature and avoid cooking work in kitchen for long time.

Diet during Pregnancy

Increase water intake sufficiently in order to avoid dehydration. Fresh fruit juices, milk and plenty of pure water may help as pregnancy diet to fight with hot weather consequences.

Physical Exertion and Fitness Exercises

Avoid heavy physical exercises and standing long time for laundry work or any excessive physical exertion which may cause any injury.

Sun Exposure

Avoid sun exposure as much as possible, in unavoidable circumstances use umbrella and keep water bottle with you.

Time Management

Avoid unnecessary traveling and shopping at peak hours of the hot days. Manage your routine activities keeping in view weather effects and heat hours.

Have a Good Sleep

Have a good sleep and rest with emotional satisfaction, try to avoid any stress, depression or fear about pregnancy.

How to Avoid Labor Pain During Child Birth

Mother is an exemplary   unconditional love relation in this world given to every newborn baby by nature. Mother is, who have to bear very much terrible pain during child birth. So as the question is concerned that How to avoid or to be lessen labor pain? It cannot be avoided at all but here are some useful tips by which it can be reduced.

Keep the Mind Relaxed

The main psychological and physical technique to avoid it is hidden in relaxation of the body and mind during labor pains. It means that let your body free and doesn't try to haste by physical exertion in order to get early delivery. Keep your body relaxes and let your uterus to contracts in natural way. The ladies who know the art of relaxing usually have less pain as compared to the women who are more anxious and fearful about their pregnancy and labor pains. 

Fear and Anxiety

The high anxiety and fear causes hypertension, which is also dangerous itself.  Relaxation and ways to relax differ from man to man and people should search and find how they can relax. Review your daily activities and find what are the most relaxing among them. However some common relaxing techniques are given here for guidance;-

Trust in God (the Creator)

It is the real, effective and psychological technique for believers of God to over come all troubles of life including labor pain. They are advised to pray for His mercy and kindness, having the belief that:-

“God is the most gracious and merciful; he is very much kind to his creation. He can do every thing, He knows every thing, He is the only creator rest of all, are his creation. He is so much near and dear that he knows our all troubles and gives us each and every thing, all blessings are from Him. He is totally aware of our pains and having full knowledge of our preys and knows even the thoughts of our minds. He is the only one who can solve our all problems. Life and death are God’s decision, no body can change it”.

The belief and trust in God so much strong the courage to bear troubles and pains will be so much great and fear and anxiety will no more exist.

Body Massage

It is physical and psychological tip for pregnant to reduce anxiety and fear by the help of massaging. Body massages having amazing results to relax body is necessary for health. And if the massager is your life partner its effects are more attractive and mind relaxing giving sense of closeness and love.

Bathing, showering and swimming

Cleanliness of the body is very much effective for relaxation of mind. The most common and relaxing technique is bathing or showering resulting in clearness of mind and giving sense of freshness as a whole.

Deep breathing and Yoga Exercises

Some yoga exercises are very much effective in order to get relaxation. Among of those some are deep breathing exercses. These exercises are very easy and simple to perform exercise having very much relaxing effects on body and mind.  During pregnancy and labor pains it is easy exercise to reduce nervousness and anxiety of stressed one.

Music Listening

Generally in state of pain no body likes music or songs. Aversion to noise is most prominent during pains. But some people having craving for music may get relaxation, in some cases.

Be Optimistic

Optimism is a great labor tip. Think positive and be optimistic; your lamenting, crying and fear of death have no positive effect to solve any problem. But positive thinking can relax you and may give relief to your pain.

Day dreaming

Almost every person have some beautiful memories in his life. To get benefit from our memories in order to relax at any time, the simple method is day dreaming. It means to rewind the lovely, beautiful and joyful memories in mind and keep it continued till you feel relax. For this sit alone at any silent place, keep your eyes close and enjoy the loveliest movie of your memories.

Tips for Pregnancy Test

Early signs of pregnancy

Missing the period is knows as early signs of pregnancy. There may be other pregnancy symptoms like nausea or morning sickness appearing but Laboratory Test is considered the final authentication of pregnancy: so before going into pregnancy test some important points regarding Home Pregnancy Test are necessary to be kept in mind in order to get accurate results

How to get accurate result of Pregnancy Test?

In case you want to get pregnancy test at home; you have purchased pregnancy test, which requires urine sample to test for pregnancy.  It is advisable that you take a clean and soap-free bowl; soap ingredients due to chemical reaction with urine can affect the accuracy of pregnancy test.  

Ensure Expiry Date

On purchasing pregnancy test make sure that its expiry date might not over in order to get accurate result. Before starting test, study thoroughly the given instructions to use in order to avoid any confusion.

Care while Monitoring Cervical Mucus

Cervical mucus monitoring is an attempt to find out your most fertile days in a month. The checking should be done before bathing, swimming and washing out the vaginal area to examine accurate quantity and quality of cervical mucus.

Avoid wrong Estimation

Normally menstrual cycle completes in 28 days. But if your menstrual cycle is longer or shorter than 28 days, it is expected that ovulation may not be on the day 14 after commencement of the menstrual period. You should keep in mind that ovulation occurs approximately 14 days before the commencement of next coming menstrual period instead of 14 days after the end of the last menstrual period.

Ensure Laboratory Tests

Missing period is normally known as leading sign of pregnancy; however it may be for many other reasons like severe illness, anemia, emotional shocks, scanty or delayed menses. So the final diagnose of pregnancy can be done by the doctor after laboratory tests.

Bleeding after Confinement

If your doctor has confirmed your pregnancy and after that you experience a little bit bleeding consult your doctor without assuming it as menses, it may due to change of position of fertilized egg in order to attach it with uterus wall.

Importance of Breastfeeding for Newborn and Nursing Mother?

No doubt, the basic need of an infant is the complete, balanced, and fresh diet. No matter the parents are poor or rich; nature gives an equal chance to all infants getting fresh, natural milk. The mother’s milk is the best suitable diet for an infant not comparable with any other source of feed. In my opinion breastfeeding is basic human right of every newborn, which should not be forfeited without any solid medical or social reason. Breast feeding is not only benefited for the child but for the nursing mother too. Numerous diseases of newborns and problems (even breast cancer) of mothers can be avoided by breast feeding. It is safe, easy and complete having no side effect, method to feed the baby.

What is Colostrums?

Colostrums is yellowish creamy breast milk which is available just after child birth and turns into normal milk after 3-4 days and lasts up to 10 days normally. It is full of antibodies, required to protect the newborn from diseases and can be digested by newborn easily. Colostrums are highly rich nutrition which works as watchdog for intestines of newborn. Breast milk is the best mixture of accurate proportion of all required food ingredients including carbohydrates, fat, protein, vitamins, minerals and calcium. Colostrums being thick fluid, sometimes it requires breast pumping to continue its flow. Breast pumps are used to extract milk from breasts in painful condition during weaning the baby off from breast feed as well. Here are some points given to explore the importance of breastfeeding both for new born and nursing mother:-

Breastfeeding advantages for Newborn

Pure Diet Easily available, 100% safe, complete diet consists of all required contents for newborn.
Easy Digestion Breast milk is digestible easily and avoids indigestion, vomiting, colic, constipation and diarrhea. 
Immunity Builder Being full of antibodies it develops immunity against diseases.
To Improve Nervous System Breast milk found helpful in developing nervous system strong.
To Enhance IQ Level Breast milk also found to enhance IQ level as compared to other children grown without breastfeeding.
To avoid Breast Cancer Girls grown on breastfeeding in their childhood are less prone to breast cancer as compared to others females.
Dental Health Breast feeding babies have better dental health as proved by experience.
Balanced Diet Formula Breast milk changes constantly in order to fulfill the growing child with the passage of time. So there is no need to worry about suitable milk formula required for your child.

Breastfeeding advantages for Nursing Mother

Soothing Experience Breastfeeding itself is very much soothing and loving experience for nursing mothers
Love Bond Breastfeeding is a unique love bond between a child and her mother.
To Avoid Displacement of Uterus Breast suckling during feed, promotes the uterus contraction to go back its normal position.
Natural Birth Control Breast feeding is helpful in natural birth control as it delays restarting menses period.
To Avoid Breast Cancer Breast feeding is necessary to lower the risk of breast cancer.
To Become Slim and Smart During breast feeding extra calories can be reduced in order to loosing weight, already gained during pregnancy.

7 Sexy Tips for Getting Pregnant

Getting pregnant and giving birth to a child is a natural phenomenon but frequently failure results in great embarrassment for both the partners and often causes depression.  Some time new wives need a little bit guideline about pregnancy and sex techniques in order to avoid some common mistakes and to get pregnant. Here are some useful techniques regarding intercourse to be kept in mind while doing love for conception.

Increase your Will Power

Will Power Mind set for conception is necessary for being pregnant. So if you want to get pregnant be mentally prepared, for it is necessary to get positive results. Have a sex with your partner with full confidence and take it as pleasant activity.

Improve Self Confidence

Sex enjoyment is very much concerned with your sentimental effects. Fear of failure becomes main cause of failure in some cases. Some emotions like anger, hate, moroseness, depression and lake of self confidence may spoil the real enjoyment sex with negative pregnancy results.

Enjoy Orgasm

Making sex should not be as routine duty. Daily intercourse is not necessary for positive results; you may make love after another day with your full sense of enjoyment, you will feel more orgasm, alertness and freshness.

Manage Sperm Rate and Quality

If you know that your husband is diagnosed with low sperm rate in medical tests, it is advisable that you should do intercourse on alternate days instead of daily; so the sperm rate should increase.

Avoid Complete Sex Abstaining

Abstaining from sex for more than 7 days results in sperms weakness in male partner. As aged sperms have low fertility potential as compared to fresh produced.

Lying after intercourse

Avoid standing position during love making and remain lying for at least 5 minutes after intercourse and don’t hurry up to go wash room. Give chance to sperms to be absorbed by your cervix.

Mood Freshness while Making Love

During sex fresh mood of both the partners is required; try to do it for enjoyment and pleasure instead of feeling boring activity. Try to give more orgasm to your partner before intercourse and to avoid premature ejaculation causing stress for your wife.

7 Causes of Fertility Problems

After deep study of medical system it is revealed that there are so many causes of fertility problems related to anatomy and physiology of human system. Here are some common causes of infertility to be kept in mind while trying to conceive.

Consult the Health Advisor

Before trying to conceive consult your doctor in order to obtain your medical history and preconception check up. He can advise you better if he found any physical abnormality.

Avoid Overuse of By cycling

Repeated banging of the groin against the bicycle seats, often results in the damage of critical arteries and nerves; being cause of infertility in men. So if your partner uses to ride bicycle more than 100 Km per weak, it should be reduced in order to get positive pregnancy results.

Avoid Over Exercising

In the same way heavy and repeated physical exercises may cause irregular periods, scanty menses, heavy menses, amenorrhea and other fertility complications in some cases. So physical fitness exercise must be done regularly, according to body requirement and is not to be overdone.

Eat Balanced Diet

If you have set your mind to expect a baby, review your daily diet. Your diet has an effect on your body’s physiology; avoid dieting to reduce your weight during this period. And starvation diets and fasting affecting ovulation may cause affect your fertility

Avoid Strong Perfumes and Vaginal Sprays

Some ladies use vaginal perfumes and sprays for sex attraction, which may cause sperm killing. So all types of artificial lubricants, oil, glycerin and saliva are equally harmful for sperms and be avoided to use.

Avoid Vaginal Douching

Douching of vagina also be avoided which may wash away the cervical mucus necessary for transportation the sperm to cervix and may cause some other inflammatory diseases of vagina.

Avoid Stimulants

For positive pregnancy results, avoid all types of stimulants and addictions . Smoking, coffee drinking and wine is very much harmful for health. Caffeine is considered to constrict blood vessels and causes reduction of blood to developing baby in uterus.

Chemical Side Effects

For people who work in factories making some hazardous substances may consult their doctor for guidance as some harmful substances may cause certain fertility problems for both partners.

Is Exercise Necessary During Pregnancy?

Importance of exercise during pregnancy can not be underestimated anyway, however some guidelines should be kept in mind in order to avoid any injury during exercise.
As the health of pregnant and new born in interlinked with each other, so great cautions is required in order to perform any physical exercise during pregnancy.

Consult your Doctor before Starting any Exercise

First of all consultation with the doctor is very much necessary in order to get fore-knowledge about your health state; the physician always may give a proper advice according to your body requirements, whether it is safe for your pregnancy to perform any exercise or not. As in some cases where the pregnancy having some complications needs extra care and rest and the exercise is forbidden.

Start from Moderate Exercises

When you are allowed by your doctor to perform physical exercises, you should start it from moderate exercises and slowly and steadily would lead to more exercises, avoiding vigorous exercises by all means. During exercise keep monitoring yourself as how you are feeling, any time if you feel un-easy stop the exercise immediately and have a rest.

Avoid Weight Bearing Exercises

You should prefer those exercises in which weight bearing is low instead of over-weight bearing exercises. Because weight bearing is not favorable to pregnant in order to avoid any injury risk. Swimming and cycling are good exercise for pregnant women if all the safety precautions are taken during the activity.

Unbalancing Risk During Exercise

Avoid such exercises carrying risk of imbalance during third trimester of pregnancy in order to avoid any physical injury to the pregnant and new born. In the same all activities having falling down risk should always be avoided. Mountain climbing or walking on rocks or other un-even places should be avoided and great care is required during dark at night.

Do Safe Exercises

Also avoid such exercises requiring to lye on back which may cause restriction of blood flow to uterus if the duration of exercise is prolonged. Also during pregnancy long time motionless standing is also harmful and should be avoided.

Maintain Water intake to Avoid Dehydration

In order to avoid heat stress during summer, pregnant should drink plenty of water. Always do exercise in open and ventilated places in order to inhale fresh air full of oxygen.

Monitor Your Feelings During Exercise

The best monitoring device for a pregnant is how she feels. During pregnancy and after birth always monitor your feeling during exercise; if you feel un-easy leave it.

How to avoid Pregnancy Stretch Marks Before and After Birth?

Market seems full of so called creams with high claiming to remove or avoid stretch marks; however the result is not up to the required standard. These creams may help to moisturize the skin but it is not permanent solutions of this problem.

Control Weight gaining

The best strategy in order to minimize the stretch marks is to control weight during pregnancy.  25-35 pounds weight gain is considered normal during pregnancy by professionals.  Overweight gaining during pregnancy results in promoting stretch marks and should be avoided.

Skin Moisturizing   

The second method to avoid stretch marks is to apply some moisturizing cream in order to get your skin moisturized and to improve its elasticity.

Avoid Dehydration   

Improve water intake during pregnancy avoiding dehydration and dryness of the skin overall, which is important to minimize stretch marks.

Time lapse    

Most of the women are conscious about stretch marks and get worried about these; but fortunately time lapse heals these marks without any treatment in many cases. Maximum 1 year time period is sufficient to remove stretch marks naturally; however these marks remain very light in color with surrounding skin color and unnoticeable apparently.

Medical Treatment

Pregnancy Stretch Marks are faded over after child birth gradually, however if you feel some problem in healing the severe stretch marks, you may consult your doctor or dermatologist in order to get medical treatment.

Consult your Doctor for Medicinal Side Effects       

An important thing which should be kept in mind, before using any cream or medicine during pregnancy for stretch marks, consult your doctor in respect of its side effects on the health of your coming baby. Because some creams having side effects which may cause defects in your unborn; so it is safer to use such creams after child birth. Medical treatment for stretch marks is more effective just after delivery without delay; as the time lapses the chances of removing the stretch marks medically reduces comparatively.
Again be sure that there are some medicines which may impact your breast milk supply and after passing to your child through milk may harm the baby. Here is again your doctor advice is most important before using any stretch marks cream or medicine if your baby is on breast feeding in order to ensure your newborn’s health.

How to Get Pregnant Fast?

Pregnancy Chances

The chances of pregnancy increase in a position when the entire body of a woman has become fully stimulated and susceptible to conception. So many factors are involved to bring a lady to its peak susceptibility for pregnancy and all the tips are helpful to get pregnant fast.

Ovulation Factor

One of the most important factors of pregnancy is ovulation cycle; menstrual periods are the result of ovulation cycle. Every month women ovary produces and egg, which travels through fallopian tubes and reaches a specific point staying alive for only 24 hours waiting the sperm for fertilization.

Ovulation Management

Now we come to the management for conception keeping in mind the ovulation cycle. Ovulation plays the key role in becoming pregnant. A woman who has a regular menstrual cycle would usually have their ovulation on the 14th day of the cycle. You may understand it with example i.e. if the menses starting date is 1st of any month then the expected ovulation date is 14th day of the same month.

Best Time for Conception

On this day, a woman becomes most susceptible to pregnancy as their fertile eggs become ready to welcome male sperm to be able to make the egg fertilized. The best way for one to secure higher chances of conception is to make love with his partner a few days before from the date of ovulation; sperm having more life than egg, known to stay alive for up to five whole days in the uterus.

Life Span of Egg

Unlike the sperm, fertilized female egg has a life span for about 24 hours or less; this is why it is necessary the presence of sperm in uterus during the life span of female egg, which have to die out unless it is fertilized by sperm during its life span which is very short. By managing lovemaking during this peak pregnancy susceptibility, one will be increasing their chances to get pregnant.

Tricky Tips to Increase Pregnancy Chances

Keeping sperm inside the female system is also a tricky yet vital factor to raising the opportunity for pregnancy. This is why women trying for getting pregnant are advised to have sexual intercourse in a position where one would be able to prevent the natural semen flowing out the uterus. It is also advisable for ladies to stay in a position which is favorable to retain semen inside, for some time 15-20 minutes after having sex and don’t rush to washroom just after intercourse for necessary cleaning.

How to Prevent Pregnancy after Sex

It is common experience in matrimonial life that sometime the method being adopted to prevent pregnancy might fail. So many reasons may result in failure of protection and preventing measures of birth control. If there is no standby or alternate arrangements to handle the situation caused by unsafe intercourse, it causes frightening feeling of uncertainty about pregnancy, especially when you don’t like to get pregnant for any reason. Fore knowledge is mandatory to handle the situation when you are not sure that your protection has worked or not during love making. Here are given some tips to tackle the situation.

Do not be late for 24 hours

When ever you feel that you have undergone some unsecure love making, don’t waist the time in thinking or hesitating to consult your doctor due to sense of feeling shame. Immediately consult your doctor with in 24 hours in order to get treatment, otherwise your doctor will be left with less options to help you.

Purchase Plan B

If you are adopting pregnancy preventive measure, make sure the availability of plan B emergency contraceptive at your home for any emergency need. Otherwise immediately go and purchase it from your near pharmacy. However you may have to convince the pharmacist to get plan B contraceptive because it has age limit restriction on its sale. So always try to keep the plan B at your home for emergency because you have only 24 hours, as early you use the contraceptive the result is positive preventing you getting pregnant otherwise it may fail.

Consult your Gynecologist

After having unsecure sex as early as possible contact your health department or gynecologist and discuss your case with detail mentioning that you are using preventing measure to get pregnant. You may ask your gynecologist to insert Copper T intrauterine device used to prevent pregnancy or if it is already inserted not more that 5 days back from unsecure intercourse, it should work to prevent you being pregnant.

Discuss all Pregnancy Preventive Measure

You may consult your gynecologist to know about more effective and safe pregnancy preventive measures like condoms, intrauterine devices, birth control pills, Pregnancy susceptibility days, use of menstrual cycle in observing most susceptible days for pregnancy and other physical tricks and techniques to prevent pregnancy. Ask in detail until your satisfaction of gaining all fore knowledge about pregnancy and contraceptives.

Prevention is better than Cure

If you do not want to get pregnant for any reason, always practice safe and protected sex and make sure that the protection being used to avoid pregnancy is reliable. Prevent unsafe sex by all means to remain safe not only from being pregnant but also from getting infected from sexual diseases.

Can Douching Prevent Pregnancy?

It is a misconception that douching can prevent pregnancy so it is totally unsecure preventive measure if anyone believes to use it. Sperm are extremely fast swimmers — hundreds of thousands of them can reach the uterus by the time a girl even begins to douche. Douching itself is not recommended by health advisors for many reasons. However, studies have shown that douching is not an effective contraception.

Pregnancy Signs and Symptoms

It is very common and frequently asked question by married ladies that how do they know whether they are pregnant or not? There are so many signs and symptoms which can indicate pregnancy. But pregnancy symptoms always vary in respect of their intensity, frequency and duration, not only from woman to woman but also from pregnancy to pregnancy. In spite of all these there are some earliest pregnancy symptoms which can indicate that you are expecting a baby, as mentioned here.

Missing of Period in Menstrual Cycle

I think the first and the earliest sign of pregnancy which can attract your attention towards pregnancy is the missing period. But always one thing should be kept in mind that the only missing of period is not a sufficient indication to confirm pregnancy. Missing of period of no doubt is essential sign of pregnancy but it may be due to some other reasons like stress, due to abnormal weight, illness, or medicinal changes.

Morning Sickness

In early pregnancy period from 4-8 weeks mostly ladies suffer with nausea and vomiting which is pregnancy indication. Some ladies remain with this symptom throughout the pregnancy period and a few ladies don’t experience this symptom at all. Morning sickness which normally sensitive to some odors and can occur at any time. The reasoned of morning sickness is considered due to hormonal changes resulting the over production of estrogen by fetus and placenta.

Extreme feeling of Tiredness and Lassitude

During first trimester of pregnancy, your body has to work hard to make adjustments with the changes occurring in your body. Moreover fetus begins to take necessary nutrients from your body for its growth which results in decrease of important vitamins and minerals like iron. Besides all these factors, over production of progesterone also adds lassitude and tiredness feeling.

Raise in Body Temperature and Bloating

Both symptoms, bloating of tummy and higher body temperature can be early indication of pregnancy. The body temperature at your wake up in the morning is called Basal Body Temperature (BBT). Rise in BBT is considered pregnancy sign and BBT falls down during menstruation. BBT remains high after getting conceived, which is sign of pregnancy.

Breasts Tenderness and Swelling

It is common symptom of pregnancy that breasts of pregnant get tender and swollen in most ladies. Breasts become more sensitive and sore as they are undergoing to changes preparing them for breastfeeding. Nipples color may also be changed as darken.

Bleeding and Cramping

At the time when fertilized egg gets implanted in the uterine lining, there may be a light bleeding from vagina. And due to expansion of your uterus making room for your baby growth, you may also feel cramping in abdomen may occur like menstrual cramping.

Lower Back Pain

During pregnancy your body has to face so many hormonal, mental, and physical changes like weight gain, looseness of ligaments, and lack of sleep which results in lower back pain. Hence lower back pain is also considered as early pregnancy sign.

Frequent Urination

Due to growth of uterus it puts pressure on bladder which results in frequent urination and considered as pregnancy sign. Moreover during pregnancy, the kidneys and bladder have to process extra body fluids, making the pregnant running frequently to bathroom. 

Headaches and Dizziness or Fainting

During pregnancy, increased level of hormones may cause headache which is most common in first trimester. Normal physical exertion like climbing stairs and standing position for some time may cause faintness or dizziness of mind.

Change of Mood

During pregnancy a variety of mood has been observed, no need to be worried that it is quit normal to feel anxious about pregnancy and birth especially when you are going to give birth first time. Irritability, fear, restlessness and other psychological symptoms are due to change in hormones in body. Here the loving, caring behavior of hubby is needed to keep the pregnant happy, cool and calm.

Loss of Appetite, changed Cravings and Aversions

Pregnancy require necessary hormonal changes which affects hunger and make pregnant craving or averse to some specific food. One thing must be kept in mind that your baby needs essential nutrients and you have to take balanced food in spite of loss of appetite. Try to avoid such foods which make you ill and eat healthy food full of nutrition required both of you.

Pregnancy Test

If you think that you might be pregnant and experience the signs and symptoms of pregnancy you should run to the pharmacy, purchase pregnancy tests strips or visit your health advisor for pregnancy test to verify whether your are pregnant or not. Your reports will confirm your pregnancy.

Pregnant Safety Tips during Air Travel

In early pregnancy months, as long as the pregnant is not involved in other health issues is generally considered safe for air travel. However a pregnant should be warned about the increased risk of blood clots and deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in case they have to fly for long distances. Here are given some important tips to pregnant for air travel safely.

Travel with Companion

It is advisable to travel with a companion, who can assist you to make contact with concerned personnel for any emergency help and to look after you; it will help you to remain away from fears during journey.

Carry Medical Documents

Keep with you all your medical documents regarding EDD (expected date of delivery), Blood group, scheduled pregnancy check up records and medical history along with contact information of your health advisor. List of contact numbers of personnel and hospitals to be contacted in emergency must be kept with you all the times.

Take Care of your Intake

Always keep your body hydrated, especially during air travel as it is considered more dangerous for a pregnant. Drink plenty of water or non-alcoholic and caffeine-free fluids all the times in order to stay hydrated. You should also pack with you fresh fruits like oranges, grapes, plums, apples or dried apricots.

Follow Air travel Safety Regulations

Being a pregnant you need more safety during air travel so always follow the safety regulations during journey. Continuously wear seat belt in order to protect from any injury. Support hose and shoes should be worn if you feel swelling on your feet.

Relax during Journey

Wear loose and comfortable clothes, also take an eye mask and ear plugs. During journey take rest as much as possible but keep your body relaxed by getting up and walking around after every two hours or so in order to avoid body stiffness and tired feeling.

Travel in safe Pregnancy Trimester

According to health advisors second trimester of pregnancy (weeks 18-24) is considered the safest period for air travel. As in first trimester mostly ladies have to suffer with morning sickness and air travel may increase the risk of miscarriage. Some ladies feel absolute normal during first trimester but even though your health advisor’s opinion is paramount so always consult your health advisor before travelling during pregnancy.

Medical Certificate for Air Travel

When you enter in third trimester after 28 weeks, due to increased risk of going into labor, a fitness certificate of your doctor is required by most airlines stating that you are medically fit for air travel. More than 36 weeks of pregnant are not allowed for air travel by many airlines due to increased risk of child birth during flight.

Maintain up-to-date Immunizations

Before travelling to such locations which require vaccination, always consult your health advisor and get proper immunization in order to avoid any disease.

Read Airlines Rules before Booking your Flight

Each airline has different flying rules, so always confirm that you are permitted to travel during pregnancy and what are the conditions applied if any, especially when you are booking your flight on line. Always call ahead to alert airline as you are pregnant and what they can provide additional facilities for comfortable journey. Moreover choose to travel in lager planes having pressurized cabins for comfortable journey and to avoid smaller planes which fly below 7000 feet.

Book Comfortable Seat

Reserving the right and spacious seat can help you to get up and walk around in the plane easily. You may visit websites of respective airline to get information about leg rooms available with various seats. Always try to book extra large seat for comfortable journey during pregnancy.

Consult your Doctor for Expert Advice

Before air travel always consult with your doctor and get medically checked up to determine your health state for air travel.

7 Tips to Conceive With a Low Sperm Count

To get pregnant is not so simple for all couples as in presence of fertility issues it becomes difficult to conceive a child. The low sperm count is the problem mostly faced by men as a great hurdle in pregnancy. So individuals having low sperm count must try to increase sperm count to enhance their chances of making their wives pregnant. Here are given some simple tips to conceive with low sperm count as under:-

Avoid Stimulants

Immediately discontinue all stimulants having bad effects on sperm count like smoking, drinking and using drugs.

Avoid High Temperature

High temperature has also adverse effect on sperm production resulting in low sperm count. Avoid living at places with high temperature, also avoid bathing in hot tubs and discontinue wearing tight pants and uneasy underwear.

Eat High Protein Diet

To increase sperm count shift to high protein diet and in addition eat vegetables and whole grains abundantly. One thing should be kept in mind that fatty food should not be eaten.

Physical Exercise

Physical exercise is necessary for good health and able to reduce such hormones that kill viable sperm. Physical exercise is the best treatment to reduce stress which is ultimately increases your sperm count higher.

Save Testicles from Stress

Discontinue all such activities that make your testicles pressed or stressed. Abstain from horse riding and bicycling or minimize as much as possible.

Use of Vitamins

In order to keep your sperm healthy always take Vitamin C and D every day so the healthy sperm count may be increased.

Avoid Frequent Intercourse

If you are facing with low sperm count problem, it is better for you to avoid frequent intercourse in order to preserve your sperm for the days on which a woman is more susceptible to get pregnant. This technique will ensure the availability of most potent sperm to make their way to fertilize the egg.