Preparing for Pregnancy

Pregnancy. Such a lovely topic, really it is. It's funny how the day you find out you're pregnant can be the best day of your life, or the worst news ever, but either way, that baby inside of you, or foetus rather, or group of cells?, deserves to be nurtured and get the best start in life possible. When I found out I was pregnant wit my son, 3 years ago now, I remember my midwife going through the routing "you can't eat this and this and those!" and she said shark. I thought what?! I can't eat shark? Well dam, I'll have to get something else in for the tea. That really did make me laugh. As for alcohol during pregnancy, you're ...  Read the complete review

Well as I have said in a few of my reviews and ops recently, me and my husband have decided to start trying for our first baby. Its come after we have been married almost a year. My husband was dead set against having children this time last year, but over the last few months, the issue has come up alot more and over the last month we have decided we are ready in our relationship and in ourselves to have a baby, we have discussed everything through the changes which will take place and the differences to our lives, and we are confident that although it will be tough, that the love of a child will overturn every sleepless night and dirty nappy. And so, 3 days ...  Read the complete review

A lot of people dont realy get the chance to prepare for pregnancy but due to the fact that my baby is the result of artificial incermination i had a lot more opertunity to preparefor this than other mums to be. During your pregnancy you want to be as healthy as possible to give your baby the best chance of being healthy as it can have, i began this by eating a lot more healthy foods than i normaly would have done and adding a lot of iron and folic acid rich foods to my diet aswell as taking folic acid tablets for 3 months before we began trying to concieve as this helps to prevent spina bifida and other neural tube defects, you need to continue these for the ...  Read the complete review

Me and my husband tried for a long time to have a baby , and the longer it took , the more we tried our best to improve our chances of conceiving. We got ourselves healthier , and fitter , and I took Folic acid ( which they recommend if you are trying for a baby ). It wasn't until my husband lost about 3 stone that we achieved our goal . I was at last pregnant. But nothing prepared me for the changes that I would go through with my body and mentally. I am pregnant now for a second time, and second time around it is better knowing what to expect. I think that the best preperation a first time mum can get is buy talking to other pregnant women or women that have had ...  Read the complete review

Both my pregnancies were planned but we didn't get much opportunity to prepare for them as I fell pregnant straight away with both my children! However if you are planning to fall pregnant there are a few things you can do to put you in the best possible chance of becoming pregnant and being as healthy as possible for your baby. Firstly try and ensure you and your partner eat a well balanced and nutritious diet, if you are overweight try to get your weight down as being overweight can hinder fertility and you also run the risk of a problmeatic pregnancy. Stop smoking and take a folic acic supplement before you become pregnanct and right ...  Read the complete review