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• Pre and Postnatal Exercise Tips
   

• Start Growing Healthy Children Before Getting Pregnant
  When I was in my early 20's, I read Adele Davis's book, "Let's Eat Right To Keep fit." I learned from her that "you are what you eat." I also learned that our babies are what we eat while we are pregnant, and then are what they eat once they are born. If you nurse your babies, then they continue to be what you eat as long as you are nursing them. My bible during my first pregnancy over 38 years ago was "Let's Have Healthy Children," also by Adele Davis. I started to follow her guidelines way before getting pregnant, knowing that my health had a big effect on my baby's health.

• Parenting Starts Before Pregnancy
  While it may seem farfetched to some people, many of my clients remember what they felt and experienced while still in the womb. Comments such as these are not unusual: "I knew even before I was born that my mother didn't want me." "I could feel my mother's fear and anxiety even before I was born." Parenting does not start once the child is born. Good parenting starts even before getting pregnant. It starts by caring about what you eat, how much exercise and sleep you get, and by making sure that you are taking responsibility for your feelings of anxiety and stress. Your baby will feel what you feel, so learning how to be in peace and joy before getting pregnant is part of good parenting.

• Beyond Pickles and Ice Cream: Keeping Your Cool With a Summer Pregnancy
  Pregnant during the summer and looking to stay cool -- and healthy? Experts at BabyFit.com say turn to the old standbys-pickles and ice cream. Why? Because ice cream delivers valuable calcium and the sodium in pickles may help with leg cramps.

• Cord Blood Banking - Part 2: The Realities
  Since we decided to bank our second child's cord blood, I have been more than satisfied with the service we received from the bank we chose. Before our son was born, they had followed up with us many times to make sure we received everything and understood the procedures at the hospital. They sent appropriate paperwork to my obstetrician and to the hospital so everyone was aware that we had chosen to bank our baby's cord blood.

• Cord Blood Banking - Helpful or Hype? Part I: The Basics
  When I was pregnant with my first child in early 2001, the buzz about storing your baby's stem cells from the umbilical cord at birth (referred to as cord blood banking or storage) was just beginning to gain ground. After researching options independently, I then turned to my OB for her advice on the expensive but apparently beneficial procedure. Her advice then was: "If you have the money to throw away, go for it." Needless to say, we opted to put the close to $2000 in startup costs to other use. Cut to 2004. I'm expecting my second child and in my sixth month of pregnancy, the same OB now hands me information about cord blood banking and its benefits. WHAT? Just three years ago she dismissed it as a waste of money! Her option of the service changed over the years - why? Based on expanded research and new findings about the benefits of cord blood storage, she now recommends the procedure which will only continue to advance as my child grows older.

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• U.S. Women Waiting Until 25 to Have Children
  The average age at which American women are having their first child has climbed to an all-time high of 25.1, the government said Wednesday. The rise reflects a drop in teen births and an increase in the number of women who are putting off motherhood until their 30s and 40s.

• Been There, Peed Here
  An emergency bathroom guide for pregnant women and those with young children.

• Your Pregnancy Week-by-Week: Week 10
   

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