Pregnancy

You can make your baby smart right from the start! Wonder how? Eat the right food and you will make your baby smarter in the womb. Your baby’s cognitive development begins from inside your womb and if you want to raise a naturally intelligent kid with a high IQ right from birth, keep reading 1. […]

Have you ever noticed a ridge or coning of your belly when you sit up? Lost all the “baby weight” but still feel like you have a pooch? Does your core just not feel strong and stable? While some women are quick to lose the pooch by a couple weeks to months postpartum, most struggle

Welcome to the 2nd Trimester! With new experiences, symptoms and a tinge of unexpected surprise and fear of what’s in store for you in the next trimester, stepping into the 2nd trimester is going to be another unexpected journey of your pregnancy. With pregnancy comes a common set of fears and anxieties. Should you really

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