Exercise During Pregnancy: exercise during pregnancy Can You Continue With Your Normal Routine? Can you continue with your normal exercise during pregnancy? Well, back in the old days, pregnant women were considered to be fragile beings that should be hidden away until delivery. Thank God we don’t live in those times now. Just because...

Early Pregnancy Symptoms Whether you are trying to get pregnant, or think you may already be pregnant, it can be extremely frustrating waiting to find out one way or the other! Lots of women cannot bear the wait between ovulation and menstruation and want to find out if they are pregnant sooner, rather than later. However, if you are really impatient...

Why You Should See Your Practitioner for a Pre-Conceptional Health Visit Before Getting Pregnant? Once you have made the decision to get pregnant, as with any big decision in your life there is planning involved.  A pre-conceptional health visit will enlighten you on the preparations necessary for a smooth pregnancy. The doctor will tell you the best...

Figuring out a due date is a hit or miss affair unless you know precisely, to the day, when you conceived and even then it’s only about 70% accurate.  Most babies are late rather than early.  And if you are here, you know that only too well! Maternal Changes: I guess the good news is that neither you nor your baby is going to get any bigger. ...

Pregnancy Week by Week – Week 39 There’s not too many of you left at week 39, you have been drifting away to the labor rooms on a regular basis.  Will there be anyone left for me to talk to here at Week 40?  Many, and I bet you will glad when this is all over with and you will have your new addition in your arms. We wish you and your newborn...

Pregnancy Week By Week – Week 38 We’ll be saying goodbye to a lot of our visitors over the next couple of weeks.  We sincerely hope you have enjoyed reading this column through your pregnancy and we do welcome your comments and any helpful advice you have for new moms-to-be. Maternal Changes: You should not be putting on any more significant...

Your baby is going to stop putting on so much weight from here on but that doesn’t mean you can stop eating healthy nutritious foods! Maternal Changes: He is still also working on his immune system, and you can help along with that once he is born, by breastfeeding.  Breast milk contains oodles of antibodies – breast fed babies are less likely...

Although you are anxious to get this all over with – your baby may not be born for another 4 weeks. Maternal Changes: For first-time Caucasian moms, an average pregnancy lasts 274 days from conception, which is approximately 288 days from the last menstrual period.  In non-Caucasian mothers, for example, African-American women, the average is 266...

What walks like a duck? A woman in her last weeks of pregnancy! Maternal Changes: Although you may feel like you are carrying around a sack of cement there is actually 5 lbs of baby in there now, plus the weight of the amniotic fluid, the umbilical cord, and the placenta.  That’s why you feel like you can hardly move, and when you do it’s very...

Now is the time to purchase and install a car seat for your baby’s ride home. Maternal Changes: Your baby has moved even further down into your pelvis at week 34.  That will take the pressure off your upper organs – lungs, stomach etc., but will exert more pressure on your bladder.  You may feel like you have to go to pee more than ever now. Fetal...