The best way to keep you updated with memories of your pregnancy is through a pregnancy journal. For those who are already enjoying their motherhood, sharing the personal benefits by keeping a pregnancy journal to others can prove to be extremely beneficial. Pregnancy journal or diary, allows oneself to analyze how pregnancy brought changes to their lives and what they learnt about themselves and also the environment in which they are living.

Pen Down Your Emotions:

Many would ask the question, why keep a journal at all? The reasons can be many. You can control your physical pain in a journal; you can give way to your creative talent in a journal and even have a record of your expenditures and so on. A pregnant mother can write so many things to her baby who has not seen the world yet in the pregnancy journal.

The best thing with pregnancy journal is that you can write anything, infact everything that has brought some changes in your life. You can write what you ate on a particular day or what you wore to flaunt your pregnancy. Everything that you think is important and forms an important aspect of your life can be penned down in a pregnancy journal. Pregnancy week by week reports can find an easy place in your pregnancy journal. There are so many changes taking place in your body. Feeling of dizziness in first week or cramps and back pins occurring frequently during trimester of pregnancy can be easily sited in your pregnancy journal.

For women who have a flair for writing maintaining a pregnancy journal will not be a big problem for them. Your first sign of pregnancy can really refresh your memories when you think of those wonderful days. Pregnancy is a wonderful experience and as a woman you should be proud of giving birth to a new life on earth. It is a fact that pregnancy is not a smooth journey. There are many unexpected happenings, joys, triumphs and days of continuous pain associated with pregnancy. Writing pregnancy health issues on a pregnancy journal can really help your emotions flow through the power of pen and onto the paper. Pregnancy journal can give you a much needed relief and outlets which even your near and dear ones sometimes cannot.

Pregnancy journal is the perfect outlet of emotions for every pregnant mother. Doctors will tell you to always remain happy during pregnancy. Your behavior can sometimes be very irrational and though not intentionally, hurt anyone near you. But with pregnancy journal, you can always trace down the cause of this irrational behavior later on. Remember, your interest to pen down everything on the pregnancy journal can be passed on to your children, as it a very interesting and healthy habit.



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onlinestuff3 asked:


My wife and I started trying to get pregnant 5 days ago. According to ovulation web sites we stated on the best day possible. Yestersay she complained about achy leggs and feeling “weird.” Also mild cramps. Are there symptoms for pregnancy that occur so quickly?

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Doesntstayinvegas.com asked:


Like the question states, what type of diabetes happens during pregnancy.
More importantly, why does the head of most babies are usually abnormally large after such a pregnancy?
I am more looking for an answer on why there heads are usually large after such a pregnancy.

It is a question my teacher has been asking and he wants to know why.

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Pregnancy is not only most creative and fulfilling phase of womanhood but it teaches you to be more responsible and caring towards yourself particularly with respect to pregnancy diet and nutrition. In the pregnancy period, your baby, whom you are creating with your flesh and blood, is still very much part of your body and for that you need more nutrition intake. During pregnancy, nutritional needs are increased, both to support the rapid growing fetus and to supplement the needs of your changing body structure.

Plan your pregnancy diet in such a way that you are the only supply line for your unborn baby’s nutrition needs. Your eating habits will decide your baby’s health and well-being. Poor eating or rather unhealthy food habits can adversely affect your pregnancy diet and nutrition and result in conditions like anemia, pre-eclampsia, mood swings, fatigue, leg cramps, constipation, etc.

Pregnancy: Celebrate It With Healthy Pregnancy Diet

During pregnancy, every bite counts. Whatever an expectant mother eats or hates to eat, affects her child. According to a recent research, besides physical development, intelligence of a child and his/her mental faculty depends a lot on the diet and nutrition of the mother during pregnancy.

In the first trimester of pregnancy, one does not need extra calories per se in pregnancy diet. However, one needs to have lots of high protein, calcium, vitamins such as Vitamins B12, B6, vitamin D iron, zinc and folic acid (it has been proved after myriad researches that even a simple tablet of folic acid prevents severe neurological- brain and spinal cord disorders). In addition, minerals, essential fatty acids and substantial calories are all-important for the fetus’ all-round development and therefore should be essential components of pregnancy diet and nutrition plan.

As the pregnancy period progresses, one must start eating more of proteins in the pregnancy diet. A pregnant woman needs approximately 300 calories more than normal during last 6 months of pregnancy. In first three months of pregnancy, your weight gain should be 3-5 pounds in per month but in last 6 months, you should not gain more than 3 pounds per month. Your pregnancy diet and nutrition chart should be designed in accordance with these acceptable weight gain goals.

Foods To Include In Pregnancy Diet

You should include fresh, light, wholesome, high fiber foods in your pregnancy diet in form of porridge (minerals and natural fiber); dairy (calcium); red vegetables like carrot and tomatoes (carotene); red and orange fruits like apples and oranges (vitamin B complex). Walnuts, almonds and raisins (vitamin and minerals); leafy vegetables like cabbage, spinach, broccoli (calcium and iron); brown rice, jaggery, lotus stem (iron); sprouts, lentil and pulses (protein), curd, buttermilk, paneer and of course plenty of milk (calcium) are important ingredients of pregnancy diet.

During the pregnancy period, eat five small meals a day instead of three heavy meals. Also, reduce your intake of fat, sugar and salt. Do not indulge in overeating during pregnancy because if you eat too much you will feel uncomfortable.

One basic mantra of staying healthy is to drink lots of water (will prevent dehydration and wash out the toxins of body) as soon as you wake up in the morning and after your afternoon nap It helps clean your digestive system too. You might be scared you would vomit if you drink more water, when you have nausea, which is normal in pregnancy, but the fact is, water helps to flush out the toxins from your body.

During pregnancy, strictly avoid junk food because they just give you empty calories (and extra pounds) without the nutritional benefits of healthier foods also avoid caffeine and alcohol fats, oily food, additives and unpasteurized food.

Besides healthy eating and maintaining a healthy pregnancy diet and nutrition plan in consultation with your doctor, you should do yoga and other light exercises under expert medical advice. Last but not the least, try to remain stress free, meditate and in this period of your pregnancy increase your connectivity with the Almighty. This will definitely shower you and your baby with positive energy.

So, be cool, relax, and celebrate your pregnancy and be a responsible and caring mom-to-be with balanced pregnancy diet and nutrition.



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estephania2182 asked:


I am planning on taking 6 weeks short term disability through my work for my pregnancy and I want to take the last six weeks on FMLA leave. What is the process for taking FMLA leave? Do I need to fill out some sort of application for that or what?? And do I have to have medical certification for pregnancy on FMLA leave?

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