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If you are a woman, then some day you definitely ask yourself “Am I Pregnant?”
What are the first pregnancy symptoms?

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The most comfortable way both for mother and baby to stop breastfeeng is to do this slowly and gradually, dropping a breast feeding or two each week until eventually you have replaced all feedings with the bottle. When you skip a feeding, your baby will be surprised by the appearance of the bottle, and your body will also be surprised by the sudden lack of demand. Your breasts may be heavy and sore, filled with milk. If the engorgement bothers you, you can pump them and store the breast milk for a bottle feeding. Don’t pump them completely dry, though, or you’ll be signalling your body for a refill. Only express enough milk to relieve the pressure, and you’ll be telling your body that you don’t need as much milk to be produced. Over time, lactation will stop naturally.
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Your body starts preparing for labor up to a month before you give birth. You may be blissfully unaware of what’s going on — or you may begin to notice new symptoms as your due date draws near. Here are some things that may happen in the weeks or days before labor starts:
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Baby shower is a celebration of new life. When your family is full of love and happiness you what to share your joy with others. You decide to throw the baby shower. Of course you have a lot of questions: how to make baby shower fun and interesting, how to entertain your guests?
Today I want to describe several fun games for your baby shower.
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Many pregnant women have a question “is it safe to have sex during pregnancy”?
The answer depends on your pregnancy and on your health. If you have “normal” pregnancy without any risks for your baby it is completely safe to have sex. Even more – sex brings you good emotions and this is very good to you and your baby. (more…)

Being pregnant is natural. Being pregnant makes you look and feel radiant.

These are the ideals that history has made sure to stress during this special time in a woman’s life. However, there are also other things that aren’t so great: heartburn, constipation, muscle spasms, back pain and lack of sleep – just to name a few!

What if a mom-to-be could lessen some of these negative effects and thereby enhance the positive ones? There is a way: prenatal massage. (more…)

In the past father’s role in babybirth and pregnancy process was finally brought to where it belonged: next to the mother. With the advent of the Bradley birthing methods, fathers were finally given something important to do. They became “coaches” for the birthing event, and their need to be needed was fulfilled.

Yet, the nine long months ahead of the “world series” game is a difficult and vague time for the men in our lives. Fathers really have no concept of how we feel physically and emotionally during this time, so they need our help and direction to create a safe and friendly environment for the mother-to-be and the child. Men need to feel part of the wonderful process to establish a relationship with the unborn child early on. (more…)

Baby birth is a process that can’t be controlled, but pregnant woman can do a lot to influence the process and give herself the best chance of a joyful, relatively comfortable labor and birth. If you are pregnant with your first baby please read the article below. I hope it will be helpful for you. (more…)

It was discovered recently that unborn baby can feel many different things in mother’s stomach starting from the fourth month of pregnancy. The baby can feel, hear and understand something that happens around him. When the baby does not like anything – he start moving and kicking his mother.
American scientists published the table of human development after the fourth month of pregnancy:
1. The baby has taste. As all children, unborn baby likes sweet taste. For example, if some glucose appears in amniotic waters, baby starts swallows quicker and on the contrary when amniotic waters contain something bitter the baby slows swallowing and curving from revulsion.
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Have you ever heard about Chinese pregnancy calendar? If you are pregnant and you want to know whether you have a boy or a girl – please read below – it will be interesting and helpful for you. Also Chinese pregnancy calendar will be very useful for those who are planning pregnancy now and want to choose baby’s gender before conceiving.

Chinese pregnancy calendar is a special chart that can help you to predict the sex of unborn child. According to the legend, Chinese conception chart (this is how Chinese pregnancy calendar is called also) was buried in a royal tomb about 700 years ago, and was recently discovered.
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