Category archives: Health & Personal Care

Best Way to Do Meditation

Regular meditation on what you want from life will help you to focus your energy and will make it easier for you to realize your dreams. Think about your long-term and most ambitious goals first and then work backwards to short-term and less ambitious objectives.

To prepare, begin with some… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Understand Your Body Changes in Pregnancy Second Trimester

The second trimester of pregnancy runs from Weeks 14 to 27. Many people consider this the fourth, fifth, and sixth months of pregnancy. This is usually considered the “peaceful time” of your pregnancy. Your morning sickness has probably gone away and you feel you have more energy than during the… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Understand Your Bed Rest Limitations during Pregnancy

Just as each pregnancy is unique, each bed-rest prescription, based on that doctor’s beliefs and practices, is different. Limitations can range from some activity restriction and periods of lying down (modified or limited bed rest), to complete bed rest at home (lying down with no bathroom privileges), to bed rest… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Understand Your Baby’s First Trimester

In the first week, a fertilized egg changes into an embryo. This embryo develops a sac that will become the placenta. Once the pla­centa starts forming, the cells of the embryo begin to differentiate into cells specific to different parts of the human body. Your baby’s major organs—the heart, lungs,… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Understand the Third Trimester of Pregnancy

The third or last trimester is from Week 27 to Week 40, or the sev­enth, eighth, and ninth months. This is the final phase of the pregnancy before the birth of your baby. In this stage, you’ll experience many physical demands on your body. Every activity may seem to require… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Understand the Second and Third Stage of Labor

When you’re in labor, especially the transition phase, you have no con­cept of time. You just know you’re getting tired and don’t want to labor anymore. Finally, you hear the magic word, “Complete.” Immediately afterward, you’ll sense a change in the mood of the room. The doctor or midwife is… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Understand the Complications of Pregnancy

Developing a complication during your pregnancy may make it high risk. You may experience preterm labor, and your baby may have to be delivered early. Your care may be put under the charge of a perinatol­ogist, a highly trained medical specialist for high-risk pregnancies whose goal is to eliminate—or at… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Understand the Benefits of Breast-Feed

Organizations concerned with maternal and infant/child health strongly encourage you to breast-feed your baby. TheAmericanAcad­emyof Pediatrics’ policy statement on breastfeeding recommends that women breastfeed their infants until the infants are twelve months old. It further states that women should be encouraged to continue beyond twelve months if both mother and… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Understand Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension

Your health depends on many things, but one system it particularly depends on is your circulatory system.

Your heart pumps blood through the blood vessels. When these blood vessels become smaller because the inside layer of muscle is con­tracting, less blood can get through the system. Then the heart has… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Understand Health Insurance Coverage for Different Kinds of Birth Choices

Maybe you already have some ideas of your birth choices, you’ll need to make sure your insurance will cover your preferences for prenatal care, type of provider, and place of delivery. If your current insurance doesn’t allow for your choice and you’re still committed to a certain kind of birth,… Continue Reading…