Pregnancy

As a newly pregnant mom-to-be, you may feel both excited and a little overwhelmed thinking about the journey ahead of you. Choosing an obstetrician-gynecologist (OBGYN) you are comfortable with can help you feel more confident and relaxed as you move through the different phases of your pregnancy and prepare to meet your new little one. […]

Congratulations! You are pregnant and by now, you should be wondering; what are the things I should not be doing rather than the things that I should do? There might be abundant resources on the internet and lots more from your friends and family. You are bound to be bombarded with advice, tips and hacks

Gestational Diabetes Pills: If you have gestational diabetes and you are concerned if you should start your diabetes pill, below are some of the things you should do: During pregnancy, some women develop high blood sugar levels. This condition is known as gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) or gestational diabetes. Gestational diabetes typically develops between the

During your third trimester, you might feel that your bed has shrunk. Your common sleep stealers are no longer your binging web series or movie marathons but instead are the aches, pains, insomnia and nightmares which are common in the last months of pregnancy. A few simple tricks can combat these culprits and turn your

Every pregnant woman would have thought at least once of “Would I be able to endure the labor pain?” “How worse could it be?” “Are there ways to reduce the pain?” There are some women who would want to avoid natural birth because they think there is no way to manage labor pain! But then

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