Baby Care

Archive for November, 2009

With any luck your child won’t be averse to warmth and affection even after she’s reached adulthood, but cuddles do change and get more grown-up, and you have to give the kind of affection your child needs rather than the kind you want to give. So adapt your style to what gives her most comfort.

Preschool children need lots of hugs every day, especially congratulatory ones, as when they’ve mastered something like getting their shoes on the right feet. Comfort hugs are essential at the first sign of tears. A child responds much better to a hug than a reprimand. Therapeutic hugs reduce the pain of a vaccination, a bump, or a cut in seconds. Never let your child go to sleep without a huge hug and an “I love you.”

As your child gets older, hugs are transformed into other actions, but they have the same bolstering, encouraging effect. A hand on the shoulder, a caress, or talking your child’s hand is a sign of love and her sense of security and confidence will soar. Your child craves your love and approval; never leave her in any doubt that she has both.

Giving comfort

Many of your child’s troubles can be solved with a hug and a few sympathetic words from you.

First pregnancy is a time when you should pamper yourself and demand more attention from others. You must enjoy life. Here and now.
Personal Car is very convenient to ride! Special belt in the car will prevent the usual belt from passing through the stomach, but, in case of an accident, it will help again. Clothes for pregnant women are now sold everywhere and there are a lot of types and stiles. It is scary to think about how our mothers lived without jeans with elastic band and special underwear. Bandage reduces the load on the back, because it supports the stomach. Cool thing, but I am personally too lazy to get into it. But it is really easy. You should also buy the right shoes. You must temporary temporarily forget about studs. Buy supporting panties. This will help to prevent veins varicose. A special pillow for sleep, which then becomes a pillow for breast feeding, is very suitable. Learn how to properly sit, stand and lie down. While sitting and lying down – raise your legs and put on something, if there is a possibility. Do not sleep on your back – this is quite a bad posture, especially for children. Best of all it is better to lie and to sit on the left side. It is very important to have a dishwasher and a washing machine. I hope that you have them. In my opinion a swimming pool is the most beautiful and healthy sport for pregnant women. It seems that you move, but do that without any difficulties! This is especially good for those who do not like to walk very much. They say that there are special stones-talismans for pregnant women. Do you believe in that? In this case you should buy those that suit you and are nice to wear. And what about choosing colors? I will definitely say that you need the yellow, green, blue, blue, violet. You can buy such clothes, you can change the wallpaper, you can just watch pictures of flowers. Moisturize your skin. I would again like to advise you to go to the sea. Eh. Drink much water! This is nonsense, that the usual water causes swelling! You simply have to stop eating salt! And of course massage is so pleasant and healthy at any time!

Oh, imagine how all women suffer, as they are accustomed to go to the office every day on high heels. You can of course continue wearing such shoes, but sooner or later it will become harder. The center of gravity of a pregnant woman is shifting. It seems to women that a flat sole is ugly. And there are many things in the locker room,that do not look with flat soles. Although, doctors advise pregnant to wear shoes with steady heels of 3-5 cm and orthopedic insoles, in order to avoid flat feet.
For me wearing shoes with a small heel or no heel at all is not a problem. Rather, I suffered because of heels, and suddenly there appeared a legitimate excuse of not wearing them, so I happily went to the store and bought comfortable sandals in the style of sustainable sporty soles, but not flat. However, I did that while I was already in the decree, after 30 weeks. Prior to that, I wore usual shoes.

It is clear that shoes should be made of natural materials, light and comfortable. After all, health of future moms is the most important thing. Properly fitting footwear can help avoid such unpleasantness, arising during pregnancy, such as swelling and cramps in the legs, varicose veins, general fatigue and pain.

It has long been proven that smoking is harmful to pregnant women, but nevertheless pregnant smokers are not uncommon. According to statistics 22% of women do not stop smoking during pregnancy.
It even turns out, that smoking before pregnancy may also cause damage.

Smoking threatens the conception
Smoking before pregnancy is also harmful and directly affects the reproductive function of not only women but also men.
In women-smokers often have irregular menstrual cycle, the ability to conceive and the duration of childbearing age is reduced.
In men, sperm production, its morphology and motility, as well as secretion of androgens are changed. Doctors say that smoking decreases the density of sperm and increases the concentration of sperm cells of abnormal shape and structure (“an increase in abnormal sperm morphology”).
Conception + smoking = congenital defects of children
During pregnancy, smoking causes birth defects of children, such as: cleft lip and palate bone, deformity of limbs, polycystic kidney disease, ventricular septal defect, deformation of the skull and so on. And even if the expectant mother stops smoking, the risk of birth of children with defects still remains, because smoking devastatingly affects the conception. So it is better to quit now!
How to quit smoking during pregnancy?
It turns out that nicotine is the chemical and physical dependence of the organism to a greater extent, rather than coffee or marijuana! But after learning about the pregnancy, to quit smoking is vital for your unborn child. During pregnancy, it is better to stop smoking without the use of pills and patches, since they also contain nicotine as in cigarettes. Recently, the most effective way is a book by Allen Kara “Easy Way to Stop Smoking”, letting to giv up smoking through self-correct mental attitude, without resorting to crutches like nicotine gum or patch. 90% read of the readers gave up smoking and did not begin within one year.

Walking

As walking does not require any special skills or special clothing, walking with fairly brisk pace is the best choice for beginners and those who simply do not like sports. Walking improves muscle tone and heart with minimal risk of injury. The main requirement is- to find good, comfortable shoes, which, you may need to change at the second or third trimester, as legs at this time are usually very swollen. Furthermore, in these terms you’ll need to add equipment supportive bra and a special bandage for pregnant women. In the third trimester, there are additional risks for walking: poorly visible road irregularities, because of great belly, besides deteriorating balance. Try to choose the straight road and walk at a slower pace. Watch your breathing (breathlessness is unacceptable) and avoid dehydration (during and after walking, drink non-carbonated mineral water).

Swimming

Swimming is one of the best forms of sports for pregnant women, as the water does not need to make special efforts. In water, body weight decreases six times, and the pressure of water reduces water retention in the body and reduces swelling of hands and feet. Swimming supports the tone of the body with minimal stress on joints, and joints suffer first with the rising weight of the fetus. The main requirement is to come and dive into the water slowly, even during the first weeks of pregnancy. Fast dive, let alone diving, has an undesirable pressure on the abdomen and groin. Try to swim in the calm flat rate, no dives and sharp turns. Aqua aerobics is also useful. But, of course, in order to avoid further infections all trainings should take place in the pool, never in natural waters.

Running
Pregnancy is not the best time for jogging, unless you’re a professional athlete. While running, the heartbeat increases too much and the take off impacts on the fetus. It is better to replace running by fast walking. However, if you occasionally or regularly had run before, during the first and second trimester continued trainings are possible with some reduction in the rate of running. By the third trimester even athletes refuse jogging.

Aerobic
Many women continue the aerobics up to the birth. Nevertheless, experts advise during pregnancy weaken the load and intensity of your workouts, or even better – attend special trainings for pregnant women, especially if you feel pain in the joints. Starting from the second trimester, to avoid injuries and damage, give up jumps and sudden jerks. If you are doing step aerobics, step height should not be above 10 cm. Higher stepped-up aerobics is excluded during pregnancy with hops, jumps, with complicated choreography, high-intensity step-aerobics.

Bicycles

A bicycle does not have a big load on the joints, so you can continue exercises during the entire period of pregnancy. However, starting from the second trimester is better to confine stationary bike instead of a bicycle to avoid injury and falls. It would also somewhat reduce the rate of trainings and avoid fatigue and dehydration.

Yoga
Yoga not only develops flexibility and supports muscle tone, but also well relieves stress. Yoga exercises are aimed for the development of proper breathing techniques and achieving harmony with your body. However, pregnant women should not “overstretch” too much, so don’t do all the exercises in the maximum force. Starting from the second trimester give up leaps and poses, in which you’ll have to lie on your belly or back. Also give up the subsidences back and leanings forward in the third trimester.