How To Love Your Breastfeeding Days Breastfeeding is one of the amazing life experiences a woman and her baby can share and benefit from! Here’s everything you need to know about nursing. Your body and your baby are ‘designed’ to nurse well. Relax, and Baby will relax – and [...]
Tummy Grumbles In Pregnancy Is constipation, heartburn, or bloating troubling you, Mom-to-be? ‘Morning sickness’ nausea is a well-known pregnancy niggle, but there are other lesser known – and equally uncomfortable – tummy troubles too.1. BloatingIncreased progesterone and eating more processed comfort foods may cause fermenting and gas.What to do:Limit processed [...]
Feeling The (Heart)Burn Heartburn and indigestion are common pregnancy problems. While indigestion often accompanies the nausea of the first trimester, heartburn tends to peak in the third trimester. There is a misconception that pregnant women are more acidic, and that this causes heartburn and indigestion. In fact, they [...]
Why Am I So Tired – I’m Pregnant, Not Ill! If you’re feeling tired as a dog, you can know that it’s quite common. In fact, fatigue is often the first sign of pregnancy. Remember, your body is a 24-hour factory with only one person working all the shifts, [...]
Beat Pregnancy Nausea And Cravings With Your Diet! Although pregnancy nausea is often blamed on a woman’s changing hormones, it’s important to remember that some hormones are produced in the gut… This mostly-forgotten fact may partly be why a woman’s digestive system seems to rebel in early pregnancy! A [...]
Where Body And Soul Meet Diets and exercise plans are so yesterday! And yet, good nutrition and physical activity are the fundamentals that shape mind and body health. Contrary to popular opinion, it can be easy to eat well and be fit as a fiddle. There are a number of innovative [...]
Period Problems – Solved! Menstruation – the one week a month we love to hate, and yet, something we have to come to grips with … Read up more on what it is, how to combat PMS and some common menstruation problems. The menstrual cycle is about more than just your [...]
Endometriosis - What Women Need To Know This is one of those lifestyle-related conditions that plague many women. Often, women themselves hold the key to alleviation. Endometriosis is a condition that occurs when the tissue that lines the inside of the uterus, known as the endometrium, grows outside of [...]
Bladder Infections - The Nitty Gritty Details Did you know that at least 56% of women will have a urinary tract infection (UTI) in their lifetime, and for many these often recur? The most common UTI is an infection of the bladder. Although urine itself is sterile, the proximity [...]
