Early signs of pregnancy

I don’t know how to start this topic. Once I start sharing the signs and symptoms of pregnancy, I cannot stop this topic because there are a lot of signs and symptoms we call tell about pregnancy. So here I am writing some important signs of pregnancy. You can do this as a checklist to confirm that you are becomes a “MOM”.
Let us see below what are the common and important signs and symptoms of pregnancy.
1. Missing period- The absence of period is known as Amenorrhea. Amenorrhea is the first and main indicator of pregnancy. But it does not mean you are pregnancy. Sometimes amenorrhea happens due to some hormonal changes, stress, some other physical problems etc.
2. Nausea/Vomiting - Nausea and Vomiting after amenorrhea means you are conceived. Now you can start dreaming your baby. This nausea comes in morning during the first trimester (first 3 months). So we called it as “Morning Sickness”. Rarely some peoples may not suffer this morning sickness. But remember this nausea occurs due to the increase of HCG hormone level in the body. Drink a plenty of water and eat fruits contains citric acid (orange, Lemon) to reduce the risk of dehydration due to vomiting.
3. Tenderness in nipple and breast- Swollen breast and nipple tenderness is the next important symptoms of pregnancy. The breast will be very sensitive during the first trimester .The shape of the breast will change.
4. Darkening Areola- the color of the areola will get more dark or brown and the size become more wide
5. Vaginal discharge – there is a white or yellowish sticky discharge comes out from the vagina. Don’t worry about this. It’s very common in pregnancy. You should thoroughly wash your vagina always and make its clean to avoid infections. You should consult with a doctor is your discharge has foul smell.
6. Weight Gain- weight gain occurs due to the growth of embryo because you may feel more hungry when you are pregnant. Do some small exercises and do a morning walk to avoid the accumulation of cholesterol in blood. Eat green leafy vegetables and fruits. But you must avoid some food which will abort your pregnancy.
7. Do Home Pregnancy test- cheap and best way to confirm your pregnancy. Urine Pregnancy Test Strip (UPT strip) is easy to use and easily available in medical shops. It’s not costly (Rs-50-60) around 1$. You can use it in your home itself
8. More Hunger: Now you uterus has carrying your embryo and the embryo started growing. So your body needs more calories. The brain will send impulse of hunger. You will feel to eat some of your favorites. Mouthwatering feeling. But remember one thing; you should eat only healthy foods.
9. Smell sensitivity-this is also one of the common symptoms of the pregnancy. You will get more irritate to some smells like smell of fish, cooking oil, nail polish,petrol,smell of hot pan, etc. Ignore those situations to avoid nausea or vomiting.
10. Frequent Urination- in pregnancy you will get frequent micturition (Urination). It’s quite common and natural. Frequent urination causes a high reduction of your blood pressure. So drink lemon juice made by salt 2 times a day to keep your blood pressure stable.
11. Mild or severe headache- due to some of the hormonal changes inside the body, you will feel headache during the pregnancy. But you should not take any drugs for head ache if you are having above mention symptoms. Consult a doctor and take an advice from your doctor
12. Weakness- weakness is very common in pregnancy. But now you may think that I told that in pregnancy you will get hungrier, then how come you feel weakness… Big doubt!! But I will give you simple answer.. As I said you will get hungry, but didn’t say you will eat. so eat more to avoid weakness
13. Mood Changes Frequent urination- No need to worry if you are getting angry or depression. Feel free always. Mood changes are very common in pregnancy. No need of any “mediCAtions”, but “mediTAtions” helps to reduce your mood changes. Engage in your hobbies, listening music, reading books, gardening etc to keep your mind to cool to get a healthy baby
- How to prepare for a pregnancy
14. Feeling sick- most of the women feels sick due to lack of immune power. To overcome this, you should eat well and sleep well. Feeling sick is very bad in pregnancy. You must do a planning before pregnancy to avoid this problem. If you don’t know how to plan and prepare for pregnancy, read this
15. Spotting: Lot of peoples says spotting in pregnancy is bad symptoms. It’s a sign of abortion. But do not think and believe it. Spotting without cramping is a good sign of healthy pregnancy. Spotting is very common in pregnancy. When embryo attaches to the wall of uterus, uterus sheds some drops. Be alert the color of spotting. It should be dark brown

Feel free to ask doubts. Comments box are always empty for you to ask queries and share our opinion. Give comments and suggestions.

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Things to do before getting pregnant

                                   So many  emails coming on my  inbox regarding    doubts about pregnancy  planning . How to prepare for  pregnancy? Things to do.? things not to do? Bla bla bla… I  replied to most of them to clear their doubts. But day by day  my inbox is filling with same questions. So I decided to write  an article regarding the same topics.

After reading this topic  you will understand – things to remember and do before get pregnant.

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WHAT IS MENSTRUAL CYCLE

                                          Almost all females have a lot of questions to ask about menstrual cycle, pregnancy, menstrual hygiene, how bleeding comes?, etc. So here we are going to discuss about menstrual cycle and menstrual hygiene. Menstrual cycle is a physiological change occurs in the women from puberty. An average menstrual cycle is 28 days. There are mainly 3 phases on menstrual cycle. They are FOLLICULAR PHASE, OVULATION PHASE, & LUTEAL PHASE. The menstrual cycle is very necessary for fertilization. Normally the menstrual cycle starts at the age of 12-13 years. Due to some problems like stress, malnourished food, tension, hormonal imbalance, side effects of some drugs may delay the menstrual cycle. 

After-all, you should consult with a doctor if the menses not begins till the age of 16 years. The menstrual cycle duration also varies due to physiological changes in the body.

 The menstrual cycle is totally controlled by hormones like Luteinizing Hormone (LH) and FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONES (FSH). The pituitary gland in the human body has the main role in the production of these hormones. The menstrual cycle in a women starts with menstrual bleeding and that day is calculated as first day of menstrual cycle.

During the follicular phase the FSH level slightly goes high and that stimulate the development of follicles. Every follicle contains an egg. When the level of follicle decreases, only one follicle continues to start its development and produce estrogen.

In the second phase, that is, ovulatory phase begins. The LH stimulates egg release. This normally occurs 16-32 hours after the ovulatory phase starts. The estrogen and progesterone goes high level. Then the 3^rd phase begins. In this 3^rd stage the levels of LH & FSH decreases. The estrogen level will increase later. This estrogen and progesterone make the uterus lining more thick. If the ovum (egg) is not fertilized, the degeneration of corpus luteum occurs. The production of estrogen and progesterone stops. Then the lining of the uterus sheds. This is menstrual bleeding and this cycle is menstrual cycle. The first day of the bleeding is calculated as the starting date of menstrual cycle. The length of the menstrual cycle in each woman varies. The menstrual day is calculated by the number of days between menstruations (period) and the next menstruation. An average menstrual cycle of women is 28 days. It may vary to 26-31 days.

Now I hope you understood what menstrual cycle is and how do bleeding comes during menstrual period. Now we can see what the diets necessary are during this menstrual period and how to do proper hygiene.

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How to calculate safe period and fertile period?

                       In many FORUMS and QUESTION-ANSWER sites I have seen a common topic that is nothing but “SAFE PERIOD”. In this Life, most of the peoples want to enjoy their sexlife without any fear of pregnancy. So they like to calculate safe period method as a precaution than other contraceptive methods.
                                                 But this method is not so accurate because the date of the menstrual period varies according to the lifestyle, stress, and climates. So here we are mentioning the right methods for calculating  SAFEPERIOD

The Calculating steps are as following,

Step 1-                     The first and main thing is that you should take at least 6 months period date and duration of each months menstrual period. That means Calculate first day of the last month  menstrual bleeding  to  the first  day of the  present menstrual  bleeding duration of a menstrual period.

For example: Your last month menstrual period is March 10^th 2013 and the present month period date is April 8^th 2013.So your menstrual duration is 10^th   March to 8^th April 2013- that is 28days.So take a diary and calculate your every period  duration of last 6 months date like this method. The menstrual cycle  varies every month (26-31days).So consider 26 is the Shortest cycle and 31^st is the longest cycle.

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MILESTONES OF PREGNANCY (FETUS)

                                         

  MILESTONE OF A FETUS

                                      Everybody is very curious about the growth and development of a fetus in uterus  So here you can end your curiosity after reading this articles because here we are giving you a guidelines of  growth and development of a fetus till the birth of the baby.

MILESTONES

                       The pregnancy period is divided into three. they are mentioned below

1st trimester = 1 to 3 month of pregnancy

2nd trimester=4 to 6 month of pregnancy

3rd trimester=7 to 9 month of pregnancy

 1st MONTH OF PREGNANCY ( 1 to 4 weeks)

• Conform the pregnancy is positive
• The development of placenta  starts
• The organs of baby is start to develop
• the size of the embryo is like a poppy seed 

2nd MONTH OF PREGNANCY ( 5 to 8 WEEKS)

• The development of heart ,brain,muscles,bones and spinal cord
• The heartbeat of the baby can be identified by the end of this month
• By the end of this month ,the fetus eye buds, eyelid folds,nose, leg buds are developing

3rd  MONTH  OF PREGNANCY (9 to 12 weeks)

• The embryo starts to move little.But mother can't feel it
• The Heartbeat of fetus becomes clear with the help of instruments 
• Reflexes starts to develop
• Fetus starts to swallowing

4th MONTH OF PREGNANCY ( 13 to 16 WEEKS)

•  The intestine and ears starts to move to the right places
• Baby starts to move slightly in Uterus .the mother can feel this movements
• The formation of Eyelids,eyebrow,eyelashes, finger nails and toe nails
• The formation of hair
• Fetus starts to suck thumb

5th  MONTH OF PREGNANCY  (17 to 20 Weeks)

• The genital organs starts to grow
• the fetus can hear the voice of mother
• the sweat glands of fetus are developing

6th MONTH OF PREGNANCY (21 to 25 Weeks)

• The baby starts to kick inside the abdomen of the mother
• The babies nerve endings are starts to develops
• By the end of this month ,the size of the baby becomes the size of a banana

7th MONTH OF PREGNANCY  (26 to 30 Weeks)

• The testicles ( only for males) starts to move descend
• The mother suffers leg muscle cramps
• The baby starts to inhale and exhale amniotic fluid
• As a result of Hormonal changes,the mother starts to feel mood changes
• The size of baby will be the size of a coconut

8th MONTH OF PREGNANCY  (31 TO 34 Weeks)

• The growth of baby comes to  last stage
• The abdomen of mother fills with enlarged uterus
• The baby's movement will be less because of Uterus enlarges and engages maximum

9th MONTH OF PREGNANCY  (35 to 40 Weeks)

• Kidney starts to develop
• Weight gain of baby
• The baby comes to Head Down position
• DELIVERY

HAVE A CUTE HEALTHY HANDSOME BABY

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