If a cold or flu virus hits, you probably want to get better as soon as humanely possible. After all, even if you can take a day off from work, you can’t just take a day off from breastfeeding. You’ll need to keep nursing or pumping, perhaps even through the night. Hopefully, you have support available so you can rest as much as possible if you get sick while breastfeeding....
Some types of essential oils are OK to use while breastfeeding, but some are not. There are also a few important rules to follow if you plan to use essential oils around your infant, such as only using pure essential oils and always diluting the oils. Let’s get into the details about how to safely use essential oils while breastfeeding. What Are Essential Oils? Essential oils are distilled or expressed plant oils....
One of the most popular nail treatments today is a gel manicure. It involves the application of a long-lasting nail coating that, in many salons, is often cured by a UV (or LED) light. As there are multiple components and ingredients involved, it can make a pregnant person pause. From potential ultraviolet exposure to chemical ingredients, there are certain factors you’ll want to consider. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration does regulate polishes, as well as devices that might be used to set them, so there are resources to help you navigate the nail industry....
“The general recommendation is to skip keratin hair straightening treatments during pregnancy,” says Sally Sartin, MD, women’s health expert at K Health. “Keratin treatments may compromisethe health of your baby as they can contain formaldehyde or other substances such as ethanediol and glyoxal, which are known carcinogens, or chemicals that can cause cancer.” See exactly why keratin and similar hair treatments should be avoided while pregnant and find out some safe at-home options you can use while expecting a baby below....
If you normally reach for a bottle of Advil (ibuprofen) to cure a stiff neck or an aching back, you may be wondering whether that’s safe now that you are pregnant. While it has some possible risks early in pregnancy, Advil is especially not recommended after the first 20 weeks because it presents some rare but serious risks for the baby. What Is Advil? Advil is a pain killer and fever reducer....
What does that mean, anyway? Math time—grab a calculator. Take your weight in pounds and multiply it by 3.0 grams (for moderate intensity sports) and 4.5 grams (for strenuous endurance training). Obviously, these are two extremes; most exercisers and athletes fall in the middle. In fact, give yourself a range; play around and see where your body feels most vigorous. For example: here’s the carbo requirement for a 150-pound elite runner training several hours each day: 150 pounds × 4....
First, the solids take up too much space in the tank, which greatly reduces the tank’s treatment volume. In other words, it can’t hold household wastewater long enough to adequately treat it. As a result, the tank has to release partially treated wastewater into the septic field. Over time, these wastes can clog the field and reduce its disposal capacity. In other words, the field simply won’t work as well....
History of the Chickenpox Vaccine Although the chickenpox vaccine was first developed in Japan in 1974, it wasn’t until 1995 that it became approved in the United States and was added to the immunization schedule. Before the chickenpox vaccine began to be routinely used, chickenpox (varicella) was a very common childhood illness. Even when it wasn’t serious, it still left children miserable for at least a week. And unfortunately, sometimes these chickenpox infections did become serious, leading to hospitalization and even death....
Consider what you want the consequence to achieve. The point of all discipline is to teach your child internal control over her behavior. You’re training her conscience, and her ethics. You’re teaching her how the world works. Long after you’re dead and buried, this conscience, ethical sense and knowledge of the world should still be instructing her on how to behave. Consider whether you’ll be able to follow through on the consequence....
Many of the toys, games, and fun activities that your child enjoyed as a one-year-old, he will continue to love as a two-year-old. These include blocks, stacking cups, shape boxes, pull toys, and sand toys. Hands-on toys give your child a chance to practice and show off his rapidly improving hand-eye coordination. Any toy that requires your child to turn his wrist to fit pieces together (jigsaw puzzles, LEGOS, Lincoln Logs, and so on) will keep him busy for many hours....
The consequences of chorioamnionitis are varied. In the best cases, when the infection is detected and treated in a timely manner, there may be no long-term complications for you or your baby lasting beyond delivery. Doctors will monitor your baby for signs of a resulting infection, but according to the March of Dimes, fortunately, about 95 percent of babies who are infected with group B strep, one of the bacteria strains found in chorioamnionitis, recover with help from antibiotics....
5 to 10 minutes Materials None Directions Extensions Cover your face with a small blanket or pillow and play peekaboo, allowing your baby to remove the cover.Say, “Want to go up?” and lift your baby into the air.Invite your baby to lie down next to you to giggle and play.
You might find this problem especially annoying during exercise, when urine might leak out as you bounce up and down. There are two things you can do: (1) always wear a sanitary pad, and (2) add a new exercise to your list: Kegel whenever you can. The kegel exercise is every pregnant woman’s secret. It’s the way you keep the muscles around your vagina and anus strong and flexible. Some previously sound sleepers find that their bladders are now calling for relief several times each night....
Cervix: The opening or passage between the vagina and the uterus. Contraction: Rhythmic tightening of the uterus, usually causing the cervix to dilate and allow the passage of the baby. In labor, contractions get stronger, closer together and longer. Dilation: The enlarging of the cervix to ten centimeters. Effacement: The thinning of the cervix. Your cervix starts out being two inches long, and fifty percent effaced would be a one-inch thick cervix....
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Labor is broken down into three main stages: Active Labor As the contractions become more intense you will move into active labor. Here the contractions are regular and are coming closer together and lasting longer. They may be three to five minutes apart and last up to 60 seconds. This is the serious phase, where mom gets down to work and really employs many of her coping techniques. Transition The hardest but shortest phase of the first stage of labor....
If you’ve scoured the information sheets given to you by doctors and meticulously taken notes as your physician gives you tips on managing childhood asthma, you’re not alone. In your research, you may also have found that asthma is linked to exposure to air pollution, as reported by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Not only can air quality issues exacerbate a child’s asthma symptoms or trigger asthma attacks, but they can also cause a child to develop asthma....
