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How To Treat Acne During Pregnancy?

The period during pregnancy is considered to be the most pleasant moment in any woman’s life, as it brings a new life into this world. It can be different for different women. Some may face a lot of side effects during pregnancy, while others do not face any. A major problem faced by women during pregnancy is acne. It is likely to develop in the first trimester of the pregnancy due to hormonal changes that take place in the body. The difficult part is that, acne treatment can be frustrating, as it should be kept in mind to ensure that any medication taken to control acne does not harm to the fetus. Most of the acne treatments are not safe to be used during pregnancy. The over-the-counter drugs for treating acne can even cause birth defects in the baby.

Treatments to be avoided during pregnancy

Acne treatment which contains Accutane :
             Studies have revealed that when this ingredient is used, it might be very dangerous to the baby causing birth defects, or in some cases, it might lead to miscarriage. This ingredient is not to be used even during breast feeding period.

Tetracycline usage too is not recommended:
             Tetracycline is an oral antibiotic used in the treatment of adults and teenagers, but not recommended during pregnancy as it may lead to poor bone development in the baby. It is also said to cause discolored teeth in them.

Medications containing female hormones:
            Researchers are still inconclusive on this subject, which are related with the development of the fetus and the female hormones, certain hormones can be passed on to the baby either during breast feeding or during pregnancy. But then, it is thought to cause birth defects in the baby.

            Even though acne during pregnancy is not uncommon, it could cause fears of using topical drugs or any kind of treatment during such period for acne, hence could cause stress. With the hormonal changes happening and the growth of new life within during pregnancy period, it could pose a challenge to control acne too during such period.

            By following a simple and easy- to-follow methods, women can avoid and control acne during pregnancy without any side effect:

i)Drink plenty of water, for a clear skin.

ii)Mild exercises during pregnancy can stimulate the blood circulation to all the parts of the body preventing from the outbreak of acne.

iii)Fresh fruits and vegetables should be consumed after a thorough wash.

iv)Pregnant women should avoid junk foods and foods prepared in the microwave oven.

v)Cleanliness is the secret in the prevention of acne, hence pillows covers can be changed often.

vi)Hair brushes and combs should be free from dirt, face could be washed with mild soap and cold water.

vii)If possible massaging and steaming can be done to get a clearer skin.

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Eating Plan During Pregnancy

            You already know it is important to eat a well-balanced diet, but it is even more important when you are pregnant. Keep in mind now you are eating for two. Whatever you eat, the baby eats as well. In fact the baby actually takes your nourishments so you must eat enough for both of you. The healthier you eat the better it is for the pregnancy and you.

            Never miss a meal while you are pregnant, especially breakfast. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and your baby has probably been waiting since he/she woke up in the middle of the night. You may learn that if you wait so long before eating you start to feel sick, this is your body telling you to eat. Do it!

            Make sure you are getting enough of the food you need daily. It takes 4-6 servings of dairy a day for a healthy pregnancy, this can include some cheeses, milk, yogurt. This provides the baby with calcium which it’ll need to develop healthy growing bones. Adding extra calcium to your diet wouldn’t hurt you either, especially your teeth and bones.

            Don’t forget about your fruit and vegetable servings. Lots of green is always a good choice, so are sweet potatoes. Not only will you be giving your body what it needs but you’ll start to have more energy. Try laying off the sweets for a week and replace them with healthier items and see how alive you feel.

Foods to Avoid

            Not all foods are safe during your pregnancy, there are a few things you should avoid eating:

- Unpasteurized products- brie

- Certain fish- exotic, shark, swordfish, anything high in mercury

- Raw eggs

- Undercooked meats- lunch meats. If you are buying a deli sandwich you can ask for them to eat the meat up a little.

- Caffeine- soda, chocolate. If you find this difficult you can wean yourself off, but the less caffeine in your system the better it is for the baby.

If you are ever unsure of the foods you can eat you can ask your doctor for a list of items to avoid during pregnancy. They’ll be more than happy to share this with you.

            You may also learn that your stomach won’t handle certain foods that it would before. Some of those foods may include foods that contain grease, fast foods, meat, and certain foods that have a strong odor.

            Eating healthy doesn’t mean you have to cut out all the fun in your life, you can still treat yourself from time to time. Go out and get a frozen yogurt or a smoothie.

            While you are making sure you get enough to eat throughout the day, that doesn’t mean neglect your fluid intake. You’ll need lots of water and juices from here on out. The baby will thank you later. Who knows, you may discover that you really enjoy eating healthier and continue it even after the pregnancy.

By Matti Ur Rehman

Staying Fit During Pregnancy

            Keeping fit during your pregnancy is great for you, not only will it help you keep your body toned but it also can help when it comes time to push that baby out. Every pregnant woman wants to be able to go back to her pre-pregnancy weight after the baby is born, but the only way to do that is to make sure you can. By excising or working out every day you are making sure you don’t add fat to your body. During labor it’ll be much easier to push the baby if you’ve been strengthening your leg and stomach muscles. Who knows, it may even make labor a little bit shorter. Isn’t that what we all want?

            Plus when you are tired and just feeling a little blue, just by exercising you actually increase your energy.

            Here are a few quick things you can do to stay fit during pregnancy, without really having to break out a sweat. I’m sure by now you’ve heard of yoga, this is a very good thing for you to practice, especially if you haven’t always been in the best of shape. Not to worry, there are beginning levels here, you don’t have to jump into the human pretzel right away. Try purchasing a set of small weights that you can use throughout the house, like hand weights or wrist weights that can use while walking. Instead of just laying on the couch while you rest you can be lifting small weights.

            Get a chair and try doing a couple crunches, 5 to 10 in the beginning to make sure you don’t pull anything. Don’t worry you can always add to it as the weeks go on.

            Try running, walking or jogging outside. Not only will this boost up your energy but it’ll also help get your spirits up, especially if you’ve been inside all day. Remember, if you are going for a walk to always bring a drink with you. You don’t want to dehydrate out there. Always make sure that you are wearing comfortable shoes, before you leave the house. If you didn’t always run, ask your doctor if you can. Sometimes a doctor may suggest you walk around the block at first and increase it from there, if you didn’t always do it before you were pregnant.

            If you can you may want to try going for a swim or try bicycling. However, if you find that you are accident prone you may want to stay away from the bike. A bike accident is something that can easily happen, even when you’ve always road a bike. Swimming can help you relax and stay cool. Take a dip in the pool near you, they may even have a swim class for pregnant women in your area. This would be a great way to meet other moms.

            Whenever you are doing exercises, make sure you aren’t overdoing it. If you believe you could be stop immediately and take a break. You never want to do anything that’ll harm the pregnancy.

Breastfeeding While Pregnant

            Being pregnant doesn’t mean you have to stop breastfeeding your child. Long ago doctors believed it actually took nutrients away from the baby inside you, however that is not the case. Even today we have people that believe this and they will argue with you the entire time. Only you can decide if you should stop breastfeeding your toddler or not. Don’t let someone else make that decision for you.

Reasons to Stop

            A few reasons you might want to stop breastfeeding may be if you are feeling constantly drained of energy. Or maybe your child has started to bite. Sometimes your milk will just dry up, this is your body’s way of telling you that it has had enough and to take a break. Mastitis could play a big role in making you stop immediately as well. Mastitis is an infection in the breast when it isn’t expressed enough and gets engorged.

Stopping or Weaning

            If you do plan on stopping because you are pregnant, make sure it is for the right reasons. If your child has reached a certain age, it might be best. But never just yank it away from them. Your child could wonder why it is being taken away. Wonder if they had done something or become discouraged about the new baby coming. Some children decide to wean themselves, which is a big help to you and you won’t feel so guilty about it. You can choose to do it cold turkey, or slowly wean him/her off. Cold turkey can have some bad results. Try limiting his/her feeding times to certain hours and gradually as time passes take away more. Your child will quickly stop on his/her own and it won’t be a traumatic event.

Continuing to Feed

            If you do plan on continuing to breastfeed while you are pregnant, talk with your doctor about it. Not all the time will the doctor agree with your decision. Sometimes he/she may see something in your health that you don’t. Listen carefully and find out if it is a health reason or simply his/her own belief. If it is the doctors belief, you can always seek out one that agrees with you. Being pregnant is hard enough at times, knowing you have someone in your corner will only relieve the stress. Don’t be surprised if your family and friends want to say something about it and they will probably give you all kind of advice on how to stop and what they’ve read. Nicely explain to them it is your decision and you’ll do what you think is best for your children. Try finding a support group in your area so you have someone to vent to or talk about these issues. Check out if there is a La Leche League near you or online that you can join.

            Remember that as long as you take proper care of yourself and your body, you’ll be able to safely breastfeed while pregnant.
By Matti Ur Rehman

A Guide To Pregnancy

            The first step of your pregnancy, after seeing the little positive stick should to have it confirmed. Call immediately to have a pregnancy test done with your local doctor, you may be in luck and get in that same day or have to wait about a week or two. Patience will become your best friend during this time or your worst enemy, waiting can become a very hard thing when you want to know for sure whether you are or aren't pregnant. More than likely you'll get a phone call a few days later to confirm it.

            Set up an appointment to see your OB/GYN or midwife as soon as possible, chances are you'll be meeting his/her staff before you ever meet them. This is the first appointment where your doctor/midwife will want to know all your medical history. If you’ve been pregnant, what types of sicknesses run in your family, etc. If you can, try making sure you know all of this ahead of time, maybe even have it all down on paper so when he/she asks you are prepared. During the days or weeks leading up to this meeting you may have concerns, write them down and ask them. Believe it or not doctors are there to help you, and they’ve been asked every question you can possibly think of. Before leaving your doctor may even give you a bag full of goodies all about being pregnant. Read these, they may prove beneficial and not to mention they’ve got coupons. Your doctor will either give you another appointment or have you set one up before leaving. There are some great books out there if you are really worried about what will happen next or how birth is going to be, check them out at your local library.

            Make sure that you get your prenatal vitamins, they are very important during pregnancy. If for some reason you can’t take them, talk with your doctor he/she may be able to prescribe a lower dosage or something else. You’ll get your first ultrasound, also known as US around week 20, this is normally when you find out what sex the baby is. However some doctors like to call it safe and give you an ultrasound around 10-12 weeks just to make sure the baby is in the proper location and all is going well. You will also be asked to take an orange drink that you must drink in five minutes. You’ll wait around for an hour to three hours, at which point your blood gets drawn and you can go home. The test determines if you have or have a chance of getting gestational diabetes.

            At first your appointments will be about 4 weeks apart until you hit the 36 week and at that point it’ll be two weeks later and a week later after that until the baby is born. By now you should be preparing to have the baby. Yes, I’m sure you’ll have some anxiety towards the end of your pregnancy. You’ve went this far, it’s time you see your reward.

By Matti Ur Rehman

How to get Pregnant? Important things you want to Know

by Jeff Netsite

I remember back when I was a kid that I used to visit my friends dad at his clinic whenever he has no patient. My friends father is an "OB-GYNE" and in his clinic, there are these posters that have a drawing of a pregnant woman and the parts inside her womb (that includes the baby). And it made me think how a baby is being form inside a woman's belly. Did I mention I was only a kid back then when I started thinking about these things? There was even a time that I thought the moment a man and a woman kiss, instantly, the woman gets pregnant (I blame the movie for this). But as I mature, I learned how it is being done and how I can avoid getting someone pregnant if I'm neither me or the girl are not ready yet.
These days, a lot of problems regarding pregnancy are arising. These include a huge growth in the population of other countries such as India, China, and even the Philippines. Another one is unplanned pregnancy that normally happens with teenagers. Aside from the unplanned pregnancy issue, there is also the difficulty of other women who wants to get pregnant. There are a lot of reasons why a woman can't get pregnant. It can be that the woman is at her age where it is hard to conceive, or either the wife or the husband has a problem with their reproductive organ, and lastly, the lack of education on how to get pregnant. For the unplanned pregnancy, it would be how to avoid getting pregnant or getting someone pregnant.
I read some articles regarding how to get pregnant. According to them, getting pregnant is not easy as everyone thinks (I'm still thinking whether I should agree on that statement). They also said that aside from proper timing (this refers to the woman being fertile), there are also a few important practices that will help women on getting pregnant. One important practice is for the woman to be healthy and eliminating anything in life that may cause damage to fertility. Next is learning when the woman is most fertile. According to my friend who is a doctor, usually on the 14th day of her menstrual cycle is the day women are fertile.
Next step is making s e x productive and at the same time, have dun doing it. Get this, according to "Dr. Donnica Moore, the missionary position is more likely to get a woman pregnant". Another important thing to know is that "if you have s e x every day during your fertile period, you have a 25 percent chance of getting pregnant, according to Dr. Allen Wilcox". Lastly, "If you have s e x after you ovulate, you aren't likely to get pregnant, says WebMD." Another website that you can visit is "yougettingpregnant.com" where you can read stories about women who got pregnant in spite their difficulty of conceiving. If all of the people can learn about this, I'm sure we can have fewer problems in our community.
For more info visit: help get pregnant and how to get pregnant

Article Source: Natural Health Directory | Natural Health Articles

How To Treat High Blood Pressure In Pregnancy?

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High blood pressure is a malady that is associated with several complications. In some cases hypertension nurtures complications or diseases while in others it is a by product of various complications and physical states of humans.
A woman on family way has been often found afflicted with high blood pressure. The cause of this hypertension is also debatable like other types of hypertensions. Well, there could be two or three possible reasons of it. Wherein, the most prominent one is preeclampsia.
In case of this pregnancy induced hypertension, initially you witness a surge in systolic BP by thirty mm and diastolic BP by twenty mm. Presence of protein contents in urine confirms this type of hypertension.
It is just because of this preeclampsia resulted hypertension a pregnant is constantly required to keep track of blood pressure. This blood pressure complication usually arises in mid pregnancy. Women who have conceived for the first time are very much susceptible to preeclampsia. Pregnancy in late thirties or forties may also be a cause of such high blood pressure.
Among most pregnant women this preeclampsia propelled surge in BP is witnessed after six or seven months of pregnancy. This high blood pressure usually prevails till the delivery. Once the child is borne the hypertension lowers down and vanishes within few days. If a woman suffers a greater surge in blood pressure in her later stage of pregnancy, cesarean delivery before the scheduled date of delivery remains the only option. For, only the delivery would result in normalcy of blood pressure.
Although a less severe case of preeclampsia is difficult to be identified, a reasonably higher level of preeclampsia hypertension could be identified with constant headache, frequent vomiting, dizziness and blurring of vision.
A pregnant woman must be informed of various symptoms of this hypertension so that she could take immediate action once she finds herself with these symptoms.
This hypertension originates probably due to placental disorder. It is said that placental blood vessels constricts to result in hypertension. Women may also suffer from this complication due to less than required intake of various vitamins and nutrients that are essential during pregnancy. Some hormonal disorders may also contribute to this hypertension.
All in all, I would suggest all pregnant women to take preventive measures for preeclampsia as it adds to the ordeal of being pregnant.
The author writes about a number of different topics. For more information on blood pressure visit http://www.blood-pressure-updates.com/bp/ and also visit the article page: http://www.blood-pressure-updates.com/bp/blogs/bp-basics.htm

Article Source: Natural Health Directory | Natural Health Articles

Getting Pregnant: The Situation, the Labor, and Overall

by Jeff Netsite

Last time that we talked about is how to get pregnant (of course that only applies for the women). It was more about the important things that a woman needs to do in order for her to be successfully pregnant. It may seem easy because all you need to do is stay healthy and follow the guidelines from the website that I referred. But what happens next when you get pregnant? Have you ever thought of the situation you'll be into? And what will you do once you get into labor? This is where things get harder especially if this is your first time.
Let's talk about the situation first when a woman is pregnant. Men should read this as well in order for them to be aware about their wife’s who are pregnant (if you think only women are complicated during their PMS, wait until they get pregnant). When women are pregnant, the body changes its physiological and homeostatic mechanisms to ensure the fetus is provided for. This requires increases in blood sugar, breathing and cardiac output. That's why pregnant women are more into sweets like chocolates and fruits. Another thing that you should notice is a women's physical appearance. Normally, they gain weight and their boobs will grow big. There are also times where some part of their body like underarm or cheeks will get darker. The darkening of skin is due to the increase of melanin being produced. So guys, be careful of how you compliment your lady or else, you're going to get it.
Next is the labor. It is pretty much the same as the changes that women go through during pregnancy. One thing that you will probably notice is that pregnant women always go to the bathroom to urinate. Another thing is the term "contractions. According to "MiMi.hu", it is the regular tightening of the uterus, working to dilate and efface the cervix and to push the baby down the birth canal. And for women, this hurts like hell (not that I'm scaring you women to get pregnant). As soon as the water brag brakes, contraction will happen soon, again for the guys, just a reminder. Just because your wife is in pain, doesn't mean the baby will come out soon. Learn more about contractions and you'll understand the pains that I'm referring to.
One website I can refer you to be "yougettingpregnant.com" where it gives you information about pregnancy specially those women who are having difficulties getting pregnant. Those are the ones who have complications on their body, or the women who are in 30 years plus of age. Read their story on how they were able to get pregnant. The website offers this e-book called "Pregnancy Miracle" where it will give you all the information you'll ever need to eliminate your Infertility permanently in weeks and become pregnant naturally within 3-4 months, without using drugs, without surgery and without any side effects.
For more info visit: help get pregnant and getting pregnant

Article Source: Natural Health Directory | Natural Health Articles

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