Browsing Category: "Early Pregnancy"
A few months ago, US toy company and Chinese toy manufacturer recalled millions of toys sold in the US, due to the excess lead on the paintings of the surface of the toys. Why lead is so dangerous and harmful for people, especially children?
The hand-outs from my practitioner gave me detailed inform[......]
Healthy Pregnancy | 
February 20, 2008 7:56 am | 
Comments (0) I never smoke and don’t drink any alcohol. But when my practitioner handed me the materials about the information of the damage of alcohol, drugs, smoking to pregnancy, I still carefully read it over.
I think this information might benefit other expectant mothers; therefore I share this information [......]
Healthy Pregnancy | February 14, 2008 2:08 pm | Comments (0) This month is my sixth month of gestation. The tummy bump is quite obvious. How to wear seat belt and feel comfortable at the same time is becoming an issue. The following are the tips told by my practitioner. Hope they are helpful to other mothers-to-be. 
Don’t wear the seatbelt or shoulder harnes[......]
Healthy Pregnancy, Mid-Pregnancy | February 4, 2008 8:06 am | Comments (0) Besides healthy eating, there are some special concerns my practitioner told me to be careful with. I put down into today’s post and share with you. Hope these tips will help you too!
Special concerns:
Weight Gain: Pregnancy is NOT the time to lose weight, even if you are overweight. During pregnanc[......]
early pregnancy, fetal education, Healthy Pregnancy, Mid-Pregnancy | January 30, 2008 7:34 am | Comments (0) Fetal/prenatal education, in my understanding, is a comprehensive system including creating a solid physical foundation and friendly emotional environment for the baby. Therefore, providing a balanced nutrition and physical well-being to the baby is part of the fetal/prenatal education.
A balanced d[......]
early pregnancy, fetal education, healthy eating, Healthy Pregnancy, Mid-Pregnancy | January 29, 2008 8:34 am | Comments (0) According to Wikipedia, constipation is very common in pregnancy. It is caused by decreased bowel motility secondary to elevated progesterone (normal in pregnancy), which can lead to greater absorption of water.
I had twice too. The first happened in the first month. It was terrible. The second one [......]
early pregnancy, Healthy Pregnancy, Mid-Pregnancy | January 17, 2008 2:32 pm | Comments (0) December 9, 2007, Sunday, it began with a nice and sunny morning. Everything looked as usual. It seemed to be another peaceful and normal day.
I went to the bathroom. I had a little bit constipation. I need to drink more water, I said to myself. Then, when I was about to finish, to my surprise, I fo[......]
Bleeding in Pregnancy, early pregnancy | December 17, 2007 2:05 pm | Comments (0) I just received a phone call from prenatal image center that my risk of having Down syndrome and Edwards syndrome was within normative range, actually much lower than the cut-off.
It means my baby passed the first-trimester prenatal screening examination!! I was so happy about this great news!!!
The[......]
chromosomal abnormality, Down syndrome, early pregnancy, Edwards syndrome, first trimester test, first-trimester prenatal screening examination, From Mommy, Healthy Pregnancy, screen negative, screen positive | December 7, 2007 12:18 pm | Comments (0) On November 28, 2007, we were invited to Dale & Piriya’s wedding. Dale is a kind, handsome Caucasian man, always with smile on his face. Piriya is a beautiful, shy woman from Thailand. Since she works in a Thai restaurant, the food on the wedding was undoubtedly Thai food.
Before we went, [......]
early pregnancy | 9:47 am | Comments (0) 
On November 8, 2007, one week after I first knew my pregnancy, I came back to see the doctor. This time, I saw my little thing a little bit clearer than last time. It looked like a little chicken, with very vague shape of body and head (with my guessing).
The doctor could identify his/her arms and [......]
| December 1, 2007 5:09 pm | Comments (0) 
