Vitamin Intake During Pregnancy

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Pregnancy is an occasion of special care: Begetting and nurturing of and giving birth to a new life is one of the most beautiful and meaningful experiences in the life of a woman. While pregnant a woman [...]

More Pregnancy Safety Issues

According to the article: Household chemicals causing “silent pandemic” found at www.canada.com:
In nine months, the fetal brain grows into ”a complex organ consisting of billions of precisely located, highly interconnected and specialized cells,” the report says.
The growth occurs within ”a tightly controlled time frame, in which each developmental stage has to be reached on schedule [...]

Risks Of Smoking During Pregnancy

We have known that the effects of smoking during pregnancy endangers unborn children for decades. Smoking is often a part of your life, whether you smoke or not. It can be a detrimental factor in anyone’s life but particularly for a developing fetus.
Surveys show that many mothers smoke during their pregnancy. The mothers often believe [...]

Video: Prenatal Yoga: Standing Cat Cow

FITMOM™ PRENATAL YOGA - STANDING CAT COW
This is another great prenatal yoga video clip of the standing cat cow pose with arm extesions. Bookmark this page to practice daily throughout your pregnancy.

Benefits of Pilates DVD, Video or Class for Pregnancy

Pilates is the best exercise during pregnancy because it strengthens the most important muscles women will use during pregnancy and labor. Pregnant pilates exercises builds abdominal, back and pelvic muscles that supports more comfortable pregnancies and deliveries. Pilates is famous for helping new moms get their figures back. Pregnant pilates exercises are much preferred [...]

Dangers Of Drinking During Pregnancy

In 1968 French medical researchers identified a collection of abnormalities in children born to alcoholic mothers. These abnormalities came to be known collectively as the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). The defects associated with FAS are caused when alcohol drunk by the mother crosses the placenta, enters the unborn child’s bloodstream, and interferes with normal biological [...]

Acupressure for Morning Sickness

Acupressure Remedy Gains Followers Fighting Morning Sickness
Source www.PRWeb.com
Morning sickness, which can be debilitating at times, is drawing more attention and greater concern from pregnant women looking for safe and effective remedies.
New York, NY (PRWEB) — From Angelina Jolie to Jane Doe, women around the world have suffered the debilitating effects of morning sickness during pregnancy, [...]

Video: Prenatal Yoga: Birth Squat

FITMOM™ PRENATAL YOGA - BIRTH SQUAT

This video from fitmom shows you how to go from a seated position safely into a birth squat. This is some excellent prenatal yoga that not only keeps you fit but helps prepare you for your homebirth or unassisted birth. (Because naturally the birth attendants and doctors in hospitals [...]

Four Steps to Organic Motherhood

The following excerpt was taken from The Daily Green on May 12, 2007
“For many parents, pregnancy and childbirth are an awakening to the organic world. Suddenly, vague or distant-seeming concerns about health and the environment become focused on the new baby in the home. Studies have shown repeatedly that contaminants in the blood can pass [...]

Diet for Pregnancy

Being hungry all the time is the number complaint of women during pregnancy. The main reason why pregnant women always feel hungry is because of the increased metabolic demand on the body. Many pregnant women also experience several numbers of cravings within the nine months period, which make eating healthy for the whole period of [...]