All about about becoming a mum
Baby-wearing has recently become super-popular right now, but you might be surprised to learn it has a long history. Mums have been wearing various versions of the baby carrier since many centuries to keep babies close to them. Some of the early carriers were made from just a long piece of cloth wrapped tightly around the woman’s body to keep the baby close to them while they worked the fields or went about their day.
When you need to provide relief to your cracked and raw skin, you choose a good, rich moisturizer to help you with. When you are pregnant or start nursing and pumping, chances are your nipples can become chapped, sore, itchy or even bleed at times. At such times you will require a soothing nipple cream to provide relief.
Once you notice the early signs of pregnancy and take a test to confirm pregnancy, the next step is to go through what to do after a positive pregnancy test, a large part of which is screenings and scans. These screening tests begin at your first prenatal appointment and are mostly non-invasive. A screening test only tells you if you are at risk, or high probability of a particular condition.
If you have had a miscarriage, the obvious feelings of fear and anxiety tend to overpower any other emotion, but do know that this is quite common among many women and it really helps to look at the positive in this situation. Getting pregnant post a miscarriage can be done sooner than imagined and before you know it, there will be another mini-you on the way.
Whether you like to think of your stretch marks as your tiger stripes or whether you would ideally have a minimal amount on your tummy, most mums and mums-to-be have some stretch marks during pregnancy. They can appear anywhere on your body, from your belly to your thighs, your breasts or your buttocks and can be multiple colors – angry red, purple or just a dull light color.
According to most doctors, a big role on whether you get stretch marks or not depends on your genetics vs other factors but having said that, it really helps to keep your skin moisturized during pregnancy.
Nausea during pregnancy occurs in 70% of women during the first trimester. Also known as morning sickness, first trimester nausea makes you feel sick to the stomach and is accompanied by vomiting in the first few pregnant months. It is referred to as morning sickness so people expect nausea in the morning, however, this feeling of nauseousness and vomiting can occur at any point of the day and can even last all day.
Morning sickness is an early sign of pregnancy and can start as early as when implantation happens.
