Morning sickness is known by a number of names – vomiting of pregnancy, nausea, nausea of gravidarum or pregnancy sickness. Morning sickness is a state that affects most expecting mothers and also some of the women who have used hormone replacement therapy also know as hormonal contraception. The symptoms of morning sickness are the strongest during the early hours of the day and gradually reduce as the time progresses during the course of the day. This feeling of nausea may be mild or also cause the pregnant woman to vomit. This might lead to dehydration and cause the woman to lose weight in some cases; also alkalosis and hypokalemia are possibilities. A severe state of morning sickness is a rare phenomenon and occurs in only 1% of all pregnancies. If you are experiencing morning sickness, you probably are already 6 weeks pregnant but do not worry as this should have been gone by the twelfth week of pregnancy.

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Just as how much joy pregnancy can bring to a woman, it can bring as much worry and tension. If you are pregnant and you notice blood spotting, is that a sign of some kind of problem? Some women claim to experience periods even while they are pregnant? So is it one of those instances? Or is it something more drastic? Bleeding curing pregnancy can be either frightening or just a normal instance. But how do you know when to get worried and send for your doctor? Let us help you out.

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A lot of factors play a role in planning a pregnancy – the time when the couple wants the baby, the financial security, the desired age between siblings etc. Others do not plan but just go with the flow of conception. However while some may succeed in getting pregnant as and when they like, there are plenty of other couples who are not as lucky and need a lot more planning and preparation to be done before they finally see their little one coming along. Technically speaking, it is best to prepare for your pregnancy and this is best implemented when the care begins to be taken a long way before the woman actually gets pregnant. And if you are not willing to put in so much of an effort, then you have to choose to be austere and lead the healthiest life, keep a track of your cycle, ensure you do not contract a disease and the like. The kind of pre pregnancy care you have to take is thorough to make sure you have a good pregnancy and give birth to a healthy baby. Your doctor will check if your anatomy is perfect and you can afford to have a baby physically. Then you would be recommended a good diet and a lot of exercise that will help you chart your course of pregnancy and formulate your agenda so you do not miss out on important detail that you have to indulge in everyday. You will also learn about your metabolism rate and if it is in sync with your chances of conception. If your periods are not as regular or slightly faulty, they can be set right with the help of the doctor’s intervention. Do not worry too much because if you give yourself some time, you will be made absolutely perfect and ready to bear a baby in no time and your chances to conceive will be unquestionable. Prenatal vitamins which are recommended by most doctors to an expecting mother do not only help to add folic acid and other components to her system that are mandatory for the development of her child but also lowers the chances of the woman suffering a miscarriage as well as prevents the baby from inheriting any genetic problems. You must understand that exposure to and consumption of smoke, alcohol as well as non prescribed drugs can prove to be tremendously harmful to the quality of sperms and eggs in the man and the woman respectively in the long run. Thus the partners should be more sensitive towards each others as well as their own needs and give up on all products that might harm the baby to be in any way.

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The condition which develops in a pregnant woman due to a large amount of sugar in her blood is known as gestational diabetes. Though it usually resolves itself after the delivery, it needs to be controlled for the proper health of the baby. When the pancreas isn’t able to produce enough insulin to regulate the excess sugar in the blood, gestational diabetes sets in. This usually happens in the later stages of pregnancy. Doctors usually suggest a series of tests if sugar is found in the urine during the antenatal check of the pregnant woman. The tests include random blood glucose test and glucose tolerance test.

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Now that you are pregnant, you are responsible not only for your own health but also that of your baby’s. It is time your fine tuned your diet so that a well balanced spread of nutrition is provided to your body from which your baby will benefit too. You will also have to increase the intake of certain vitamins, calories and minerals. During this phase try to keep your intake of junk food minimalist as it gives your body barely any nutrition except some unhealthy calories. Even though everybody would be forcing you to consume extra calories, for the first 6 months of your pregnancy the calories are not required. But during the first trimester make sure you have a good amount of folic acid as that helps to keep your child’s neural development healthy. For the last 3 months on your pregnancy you would be needed to take in 200 extra calories per day and this is pretty easy. 200 calories is contained in only 2 breads without butter, a bowl of curry or pulses and some potatoes. So if you indulge in eating a yummy continental meal a day, your 200 extra calories are naturally consumed!

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Blighted ovum is also known as anembryonic pregnancy and even though this does not sound like a commonly experienced pregnancy complication, it happens to be experienced by most expecting women without them even realizing it. A blighted ovum is a situation when the placenta is formed but no fetus is seen on the ultrasound. In most cases of a blighted ovum, the pregnancy would be terminated in the form of a miscarriage. Very often blighted ovum occurs very early in pregnancy and gets dissolved even before the woman has learned of her pregnancy. However in certain cases you might experience the signs and symptoms of early pregnancy. Cramping and slight bleeding may also be noticed which will usually be followed by a heavy flushing out which you will think to be a heavy period. On other occasions, women assume that they are experiencing yet another period and they probably have not gotten pregnant at all. However the hCG levels continue to rise and the placenta continues to grow. Diagnosis would not be performed before the eight week and the ultrasound would show that the womb has no baby inside.

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Anemia is a common pregnancy complication faced by many expecting mothers. Anemia is primarily a deficiency of iron when the red blood cells in the body do not have enough of iron content to circulate oxygen around the body. The most obvious symptoms of anemia are breathlessness and tiredness. A regular intake of iron is important. From even before you have conceived you should have been consuming at least 15 mg of iron each day and during your pregnancy you need to consume twice of that which is 30 mg to make sure your baby stays healthy.

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Nausea is an annoying but inevitable side effect of pregnancy. In fact it is welcomed by most mothers since it happens to be one of those first few signs of your pregnancy. However sometimes the problem of nausea can get to you, when you realize that it is highly aggravated and just won’t let you rest in peace. You tend to experience nausea which is also known as morning sickness or pregnancy vomiting in the wee hours of the day, the symptoms gradually decrease with the increasing hours but it does not totally disappear anyway. Here we are helping you with some suggestions that help to prevent nausea for most women!

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Having a baby might be a wonderful experience for all women but after having endured nine months of pregnancy of which 5 to 6 months you were busy gaining excess weight, we understand if you feel like you have had enough and want to go back to your normal size and lose all that extra weight. Your pre pregnancy shape might be urging you to go back to that old look you loved yourself in as soon as possible. However you should not be impatient as post pregnancy you initially have a few new problems to take care of than to worry about going back to your normal looking self. So if you have become mommy for the first time ever, take our advice and take it slow as shedding all that extra weight suddenly and too rapidly might actually have a counter effect on you, something that you really have not been looking forward to! You are not a celebrity mom and you did not have the ace nurses, dieticians and fitness experts next to you to guide you through your term of pregnancy so it is pretty silly for you to think you will look as unaffected as celebrity mummies do.

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Most women who are making an attempt to conceive have a lot of questions in mind. When ovulation and plantation take place? What the chances of suffering a miscarriage are? How to take care of herself? Whether or not to choose a cesarean section over a normal delivery? What kind of food to eat? What exercises to practice? The answers to all these questions come easy but in this article particularly, we will discuss the concept of ovulation and pregnancy.

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