Health care practitioners are a good medium to consult and find answers to your pregnancy related queries and inquiries. Every parent desires to have a healthy baby. It helps to consult someone you trust. It could be a consultant, your mother, your close relative or books, if you have the habit of reading. A planned pregnancy keeps you satisfied at every stage of pregnancy and you are well prepared to handle the situations as they arise. How to slip into pregnancy quickly, what are the good foods to eat, what is the best age for pregnancy, what vaccinations are essential, what vitamins and minerals are essential, should you consult a pregnancy planning calendar, what foods or substances are harmful for your pregnancy, all these questions and more usually haunt all going-to- be parents. Planning pregnancy helps to avert situations, which make you anxious and create anxiety.
Keeping A Step Ahead
Once you have a planned pregnancy you can find solutions for all problems that you envisage. As parents, you have taken a decision to bring another human being into life. Now it is your duty to see that you give the best of everything to your bundle of joy, and at the same time make sure that you do not lose any comfort for lack of planning. Conception planning helps you to understand the importance of remaining fit and healthy from the time you take the decision to become a parent. Which means regular exercise and morning and evening walks, good nourishing food throughout the day, a little meditation, watching TV and listening to music to remain stress free and keeping the environment in which you live neat and clean. If you accomplish all this and keep a working hand to take care of your daily chores getting pregnant or planning your second pregnancy would be a piece of cake.
Physical Fitness Is Essential
It is important to keep a check on your body mass index. A healthy body with ideal weight has a better chance of getting pregnant. In this context, if you know about ovulation and your best time to get pregnant you can greatly improve your chances for pregnancy. A planned pregnancy can help you to understand your ovulation period, which starts from the 14th day of your menstruation. Besides these you can also have many herbs and medicines to boost fertility in males and females, if you have any complications, in getting pregnant or your pregnancy is taking time even after taking due precautions.
Never undermine the importance of money matters even if you have a good source of income. Quick borrowing of money on important matters like the hospital bills, clothes for the baby, creams, gels, powders, crib, pram, painting and white washing, the piling list of grocery and medical items, travel and communication bills etc can make a big hole in the pocket. Therefore, a planned pregnancy can really be helpful in creating a pool of money, which can be used when your health insurance and other sources seem to run out of steam. If you are a person of limited means then you should start saving today and cut down on your expenses and save some money for the rainy day. Usually, you stop getting payment from office six weeks after delivery; you should be ready to foot the bills after that. A planned pregnancy is like a friend who lends you help when you need it the most.
Nothing's Too Good For My Baby
Frequent feedings during the first few days ensures that your baby gets something called colostrum. This is most often called the 'first milk'. Colostrum is a concentrated form of breast milk. Unlike breast milk in the weeks, months and years to follow, it's yellowish in color and has the consistency of liquid honey. Colostrum contains immune active cells that neutralize and kill most germs that could harm your child. This is vital as the most beneficial of the anti-bodies present in colostrum, called IgA, can't be made by the newborn itself.
As well as warding off infection, colostrum is also highly nutritious. It contains a high level of fatty acids that your baby needs. It also contains an enzyme called lipase, which keeps the fat globules small and easy to digest; lactose, the sugar found in breast milk; vitamin D, iron and potassium. And we mustn't forget about your hormones and enzymes that you pass on to your baby through your breast milk.
Colostrum also does so much more. It lines your baby's gut with micro-organisms (intestinal flora) thus making digestion easier of later breast milk. Frequent feeding of concentrated colostrum will also gently expand your baby's stomach; when your child is first born, its stomach is the size of a walnut! Finally, colostrum also stimulates the bowel into action, which helps to clear the meconium (your baby's first stools) from your child's bowel. After a few days your baby's baby bowel will be in good shape to receive your follow-on milk.
If you plan to breastfeed you should plan to breastfeed from the moment your child is born. Colostrum is produced in the first 2 to 3 days after birth and it is extremely important that your child gets your colostrum. Most hospitals now allow a mother and child to stay together so that a mother can feed her child frequently. This wasn't always so and sometimes, even today, mothers and babies are separated to 'allow mother to rest'. Don't allow yourself to be parted from your child if at all possible.
Your milk should come in around day 2 or 3 and may be an uncomfortable time for mother. You may feel emotional, vulnerable and prone to crying. This is natural. You may also experience some pain as your breast may become very swollen, hot or hard. Your nipples may become distended and your baby may find it difficult to latch on.
All these problems can be overcome with patience and help from professional health care workers, your family and friends. Don't be put off from breastfeeding. Colostrum is the best possible start in life any one could have.
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