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Anatomy of a Stretch Mark When your body grows faster than your skin’s pace, it causes the elastic fibers just under the surface of your skin to break, resulting in stretch marks. Similarly, during pregnancy your hormones can soften the fibres of your skin, making it more prone to stretch marks. The occurrence of stretch […]

People just LOVE to make predictions and sweeping statements about pregnancy. The amount of myths out there surrounding pregnancy are many and you could make a list much longer than this if you were to compile them, but these are a few of my favorites from the ladies of my house 1. Baby girl inside

Are you experiencing new dreams or dream patterns which are vivid, colourful, scary, intense dreams ? There can be numerous reasons and most commonly it’s the cause of the change in hormone levels, which in turn affects sleep rhythms. Generally people vaguely remember the dreams. During pregnancy, women tend to remember the dream in greater

The old wives tale of losing a tooth for every baby will become true if you don’t take proper precaution and delay your visit to the dentist during your pregnancy. The phase of pregnancy is a happy one. In this phase your tooth does not automatically get damaged. Nobody wants to visit the dentist for

Labor Pain, Like every first-time expectant mom, my feelings towards labor and delivery were excited, anxious, and scared. I did not prepare myself by crowding my mind with too much information about labor or delivery. I used the go-with-the-flow formula. I learned about painless labor from my gynecologist when it was offered to me. I