Natural Prenatal
Preparing For Pregnancy
Most women clean up their diets and their lifestyle habits as soon as they become pregnant. Knowing they are responsible for another being’s health provides motivation to take better care of their self. Many women don’t really consider, however, the time just preceding pregnancy ...
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Things To Do Before You Get Pregnant
Your life is going to change when you get pregnant, that is a fact. So being of the preventative mindset, I believe it is best to be as prepared as you can be, prior to doing the deed. Here are a few tips to get you thinking about what you can do to ensure a healthy home for y...
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Prenatal Vitamins Before Pregnancy?
Many women know the importance of taking prenatal vitamins while they are pregnant. But did you know that studies show it may be just as important to start taking prenatal vitamins even before you conceive?Recent research links taking prenatal multivitamins in the months ...
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Healthy Egg Nog Recipe
Sugar free, dairy free eggnog with a baby makin’ twist...yep, you heard that right. Holidays are just around the corner, and I for one am craving a little delicious nog. I try to steer clear of the commercial eggnog (non-organic dairy, that is loaded with refined sugar and oft...
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Fertility Facts
Most of us grow up assuming that if or when the day comes that we decide to have children that our bodies will comply and easily fulfill this desire. However this assumption is proving to be very disappointing for more and more individuals who find that this expectation ...
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Breast Milk Production & Anatomy
When people think of breast milk they tend to think of it as something static and unchangeable. We assume that because it looks similar throughout breastfeeding that it is similar in composition during this time. However on the contrary breast milk is never identical and...
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Breastfeeding During Pregnancy
Many women wonder whether they can continue to breastfeed their first baby when they become pregnant with their next. According to La Leche League International (the international breastfeeding experts) the answer is yes in most cases although certain considerations shou...
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Hypnotherapy for Natural Childbirth
Bring up the words “labor” or “childbirth” for a pregnant woman and you are sure to be met with a look of anxiety or even panic. Most American women fear childbirth due to the anticipation of extreme pain. As women we learn of this pain early on in our lives from stories passed d...
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The Benefits of Prenatal Massage
Pregnancy is a time of incredible bodily changes. Because of this, most women will experience their share of aches and pains at some point throughout. To remedy these ailments, women may want to consider getting a prenatal massage. This is one luxury pregnancy women do no...
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Natural Pregnancy and the Common Cold
The average adult gets anywhere between two and four colds a year. Based on this average, it is quite likely that a majority of pregnant women will catch at least one cold during their pregnancy.Although colds themselves do not pose any real danger to pregnant women, many...
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Can You Naturally Pick the Gender of Your Baby?
Most couples are happy to simply deliver a healthy child, but there are circumstances where parents may have a preference for one sex over the other. This can be related to religion or simply because the couple already has one or more children of a certain sex and wish to have...
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How to Exercise During Pregnancy
We all know that exercise is beneficial for health, but what about exercise during pregnancy? Are there activities we should avoid because they may endanger our unborn fetus or are we clear to participate in any we choose?The predominant thinking around exercise during pr...
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Minimize Stress for Your Baby's Health
Most women wouldn’t dream of smoking a pack of cigarettes or drinking a few martinis while pregnant. Public service efforts in the last few decades have reached the masses, educating would-be parents about the dangerous effects of certain lifestyle choices. But how often do peopl...
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Natural Tips for Getting Pregnant
You and your partner are ready to have a baby and you want to prepare yourselves for the process. Getting pregnant can come easier and faster if proper attention is given to creating the ideal circumstances for conception. Couples hoping for quicker success in the process of gett...
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Reducing Stress May be Key to Fertility
Is your job stressing you out? What about your finances, relationships, mortgage, the state of the economy? It seems stress is an ever-present part of modern living, but this constant stress may very well be the reason why many couples are having a difficult time getting pregnant...
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Minimizing Miscarriage Risks
The threat of miscarriage is often the greatest fear of a newly pregnant woman. Many women struggle with anxiety through the first trimester hoping and praying that their pregnancy will be viable. The worry is even more tangible for women who have experienced previous miscarria...
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Benefits of Using a Doula
Increasing numbers of pregnant women are now hiring doulas to assist them through the birthing process. Doulas are trained professionals (usually women) who provide non-medical support to a woman or couple before, during, and after labor. A doula understands that a birth is a ve...
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Preparing for Twins
Being pregnant with twins requires some extra attention and care on the part of the mom-to-be. Instead of trying to grow just one fetus, a pregnant woman is required to nourish herself with the intention of creating two healthy babies. Although most of the common pregnancy recom...
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Foods for Fertility
Fertility can be affected by any number of factors in life, environmental, physiological, emotional, or dietary. We can change certain aspects of our lives while others may be somewhat harder to alter. In terms of dietary links with fertility, there are many known connections u...
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Infertility Around the World
When I was walking through the mall the other day, I overheard a stressed young mother offhandedly comment to her two preschoolers who were misbehaving quite loudly that they were “a walking advertisement for birth control.” Her humor made me smile but also reflect on parenting ...
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Managing Heartburn During Pregnancy
Alongside the joys of pregnancy frequently come a few discomforts, with heartburn being one of the more common ones. Heartburn, also called acid reflux and GERD, is that uncomfortable sensation of having your stomach acids move back up and into your esophagus, causing a burning...
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Dealing with Pregnancy Blues Naturally
For many women, the experience of pregnancy is a beautiful and happy period during which they eagerly await the arrival of their baby. For many other women however, things are not quite so rosy. Pregnancy blues are more common than many realize and because of the social taboos a...
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Choosing A Prenatal Multi-Vitamin / Mineral
These days, many pregnant women decide to begin taking a multi-vitamin/mineral as soon as they find out they are pregnant. They do so in the hopes of ensuring that their babies will have access to all of the vitamins and minerals they will need to develop properly. Although takin...
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Prenatal Sample Meal Plan
Nutrition is essential for women trying to conceive and for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding. Consider the meal plan below if you are in the prenatal stage. Consume meals that are good quality protein, carbohydrates and fats.Use this meal plan as a guide, and supplement a...
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Prenatal Nutrition Basics
What you eat is important at every stage in your life and it is especially true during pregnancy. During pregnancy, a fetus can only be nourished through its mother’s body and it is for this reason that expectant women need to ensure that their babies have access to all the nutr...
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Prenatal Health Dangers In The Home
Most pregnant women think of their homes as their sanctuary, a place where they can rest and prepare for the arrival of their new baby. What many of these same women do not consider is that their sanctuary could be dangerous to their own health and to the health of their unborn ...
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Pregnancy & Fish Consumption
Over the past few decades fish and seafood, which is high in iron, zinc, and omega 3’s, was considered a healthier and more easily digestible protein source than meat. Health conscious people began eating tuna sandwiches and salmon fillets, among other varieties, to help low...
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Prenatal Yoga Principles
Prenatal yoga improves your mood, can reduce pregnancy anxiety by helping to clear your head and brings you into a state of physical and spiritual awareness. It also encourages women to become aware and comfortable with their ever-changing bodies. The following are p...
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Can you visualize it? Can you feel it? That’s your life lengthening.Yoga is all about flexibility, strength and lengthening your muscles. It increases your well being, it lengthens the connective tissue that surrounds your muscles and joints, it stimulates your organ syst...
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Preparing For Pregnancy
Most women clean up their diets and their lifestyle habits as soon as they become pregnant. Knowing they are responsible for another being’s health provides motivation to take better care of their self. Many women don’t really consider, however, the time just preceding pregnancy...
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Dietary Factors That May Inhibit Fertility
Infertility rates are on the rise and a growing number of couples are now turning towards fertility treatments for help with conceiving. However, one of the subjects often ignored by doctors and fertility specialists is the nutritional habits of the couple in question. If a coupl...
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Natural Family Planning
For many couples deciding when to have children is carefully planned. Today, more and more people want to finish schooling and establish their career before taking on the demands and responsibilities of parenting. For many this decision is driven by the practicalities related to ...
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Full-Fat for Fertility
Trying to get pregnant? Skip the skim milk and choose cheese instead! According to a recent study published in Human Reproduction, consuming low-fat dairy products may significantly increase a woman's risk of infertility. The study showed that women who ate two or more servi...
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Essential Nutrients for Pregnancy
Congratulations! You have now embarked on one of life’s most special journeys. The excitement of growing a baby inside you may seem enough to sustain you throughout the next 9 ½ months. However you, and your developing baby, have many nutritional needs that require attention. Th...
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