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Is it normal to have fatigue in early pregnancy? Read on to discover why fatigue in early pregnancy happens and what you can do to make sure you are not nutritionally depleted.

Pregnancy is an amazing event in a woman’s life. No matter how long or how hard we study pregnancy we will never fully understand why women get so many very early pregnancy symptoms such as pregnancy fatigue.

From the moment of conception, the developing fetus needs lots of vitamins and minerals to ensure normal cell and organ growth and to prevent congenital abnormalities. As the developing fetus grows it also grows a living organ called the placenta, that allows vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, oxygen, nutrients, hormones and blood to cross from the mother’s blood supply to the developing fetus.

Mothers are givers by nature and during pregnancy they unconditionally and continuously give all their reserve nutrients to their offspring in an attempt to grow a healthy baby. Under normal pregnancy this is be a huge physical drain on the mother’s physical energy level and this is why pregnant women are given pre-natal vitamins.

Prior pregnancy many men and women are depleted in vitamins and minerals because of our lifestyles and the food we eat. Vitamins and minerals are essential in building healthy cells and organs. Many miscarriages are caused by abnormal eggs and sperms due to the lack of adequate vitamins and minerals in the cells prior to conception.

A body lacking vitamins and minerals is in a depleted state which can cause physical disease, irritability, depression and fatigue. The stress of pregnancy on top of this depletion results in a lot of pregnancy fatigue.

Pregnant women need more sleep than normal as when they sleep there is less physical stress on the mother’s body. Therefore sleep gives the mother a better chance of adjusting to all the demands of pregnancy.

It is very important as soon as you know you are pregnant to take vitamins and minerals, especially folic acid (600-micrograms) as folic acid helps prevent congenital abnormalities. If you are not already supplementing your diet with vitamins and minerals, then purchase some until you have an appointment with your health care provider.

Better still, if you are planning to get pregnant, start supplementing your diet with vitamins and minerals to make your body more nutritionally sound, reduce miscarriage risk and reduce the degree of fatigue during early pregnancy.

OK I have spoken a lot about vitamins, minerals and antioxidants and you may be wondering how could you be nutritionally depleted or even be tired if you already supplement. Well the truth is most people supplement with vitamins only and they supplement with a pill delivery system which has a very poor absorption rate. The best way to supplement is a liquid delivery system which has about a 95% absorption rate. Vitamins alone are not good enough, the body needs minerals for optimal health and minerals are necessary to absorb vitamins. For information about a high quality vitamin, mineral and antioxidant product view

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You may also be very interested in an amazing message that was telepathically dictated to me for humanity from my son when he was seven-weeks old. Yes you read correctly! I have the ability to communicate with baby’s emotions from inside and outside the womb. Down load this AMAZING MESSAGE FREE at

http://www.PregnancySuccessCoach.com/Message_For_Humanity.html

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Hannah Bajor. C.N.M.,M.S.N.

Certified Nurse Midwife

Pregnancy Success Coach

Breastfeeding your baby has many benefits. It is considered as a natural way to feed a baby and is a beautiful thing. Breastfeeding provides the new born baby with all the essential requirements of the body for a healthy life.

There are no consequences and has various benefits of breastfeeding. Babies that breastfeed my their mothers are less susceptible towards many diseases and possess healthier body weight.

Breastfed babies automatically stops once they are fill. Along with milk goes those essential antibodies in the body of the baby which helps him or her to fight against illnesses and infections. There are practically endless benefits of breastfeeding.

One of the most important benefit of breastfeeding is the bond that is established between mother and baby. In some cases, it has been discovered that babies feel emotional distress if they do not
experience personal contact and closeness of his or her mother. Therefore it is very important that the mother spend one-on-one time with baby.

There are various benefits of breastfeeding that are essential for the healthy start of life. Baby deserves his or her right to be breastfeed. You should plan to breastfeed your baby once you get pregnant.

Many women are confused about the ways to properly breastfeed their baby. Consider the few points described below to learn breastfeeding.

1- First of all you need to sit comfortably keeping your lap flat and back straight. To support your little baby during breastfeeding you can place a pillow on your lap.

2- Now, turn the body of your baby towards your stomach so that the baby comes in perfect position for breastfeeding. Bottom portion of your baby should rest on your elbow. Baby’s shoulders, neck and head should be provided support using your hands and forearm.

3- It’s time to position the baby’s nose in front of your nipple so that the breastfeeding can begin. You must allow the head of your baby to tip back slightly and gently. Babies usually do not open mouth, therefore you should rub the lips of your baby against your nipple so that he or she opens mouth properly.

4- Most of the time, babies feel deprived breath due to improper position during breastfeeding. Therefore, you should bring your baby’s chin and bottom lips towards your breast. The best way to learn this is to feel large portion of mouth of your baby against your breast.

5- To make your baby feel comfortable you may have to support your breast during breastfeeding. Baby would not feel comfortable if you are not. So, make sure that you feel relaxed and comfortable. It would be a very beautiful experience to hear the swallowing sound of your baby softly.

6- You need to learn to feed in a proper way. If you feel that something is going wrong, stop and start over the procedure again.

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni’s Renegade Roundtable, which can be found at http://www.RenegadeRoundtable.com. In this excerpt, Dr. J.E. Williams shares on our immune systems vulnerability and diseases like cancer or chronic fatigue syndrome.

Renegade Water Secrets with Dr. J.E. Williams, a pioneer in integrative medicine, an educational leader in “green medicines” and an internationally known speaker and published author, including his latest book, “Viral Immunity.”

Kevin: So let’s talk about the most common viruses that most people would have. What are the numbers? I’ve read that up to 90% of people have viruses.

Dr. Williams: [laughs] Well, I’d probably say 90 to 100, closer to 100. One time a very well known bacteriologist, a specialist in bacteria, was giving a lecture by my invitation at one of the medical schools that I worked with. I was in the audience and he was pointing out the number of cells in the body. It is fascinating that we have more bacteria by number, so many trillions of bacteria compared to so many hundreds of billions of living tissue cells. There’s four times more bacteria that actually compose who we are. Can you believe that? And all of those, except when we’re affected, are supposed to be there. That’s our robiotics. It’s not just in the gut, they’re through all our other tissues. And then he said, “Where viruses are not supposed to be there.” And then he looked up at me and said, “Well, Dr. Williams might have a different view because he’s kind of the pro-viral immunity doc!”

We kind of had a little eye to eye and smiled. Afterwards we chatted a little bit and realized that his information was from a different paradigm, more than 20 years ago. And mine was a little more current in that we get infected by viruses, and we used to think that the body cleared everything out, but now we realize that it doesn’t.

Anywhere between 90 and 95%, maybe higher, carry antibodies to a very common herpes virus called Epstein-Barr. And you can go, and this has been tested, into Brazilian Amazon natives along the river to the Northern Artic Eskimos to urban people in pretty much every country and every continent. So how did the virus become so global and so ubiquitous that it infects almost everybody? During childhood, it remains there. Another is roseola. The list goes on and on. Those are all herpes virus family microorganisms. So the number may be anywhere from 90 to 100% for carrying some type of virus around with us.

Kevin: So Epstein-Barr, for those people who don’t know, that’s what causes mononucleosis.

Dr. Williams: Yes, exactly. The kissing disease. It can be very severe. When I’m talking to people, for example, with chronic fatigue, one of the first things I want to track down is, is the fatigue caused by an infection, and what type of infection could that be? Could it be spyro-acute lyme disease, a type of bacteria, or another bacteria or parasites or yeast organisms or virus? Those are the main infectious microorganisms. And if it is, then I try to narrow it down further. Which type of infectious agent is it? If it’s viruses, well, then you’re in my domain!

Kevin: Mm-hmm.

Dr. Williams: But interestingly, probably the smallest percentage of chronic fatigue are really caused by infectious organisms, and only a part of those that are caused by infectious are by Epstein Barr. But in the history taking, what I’ll do is I’ll try to ask the patients, did they ever have mono, will be one of the main questions, and then to what degree did it make them sick. They could have been in bed for two months with an enlarged spleen; I mean, very, very sick. Or, they could have had almost nothing. Maybe it was just like a passing cold or they thought they had a flu but actually they had mono. And it may or may not, the degree that they’re infected originally, may or may not have a bearing on how their immune system and how their body is now responding to a reactivation to this latent viral form of Epstein Barr.

Every modern disease or most of them, but certainly cancer, diabetes, even all the auto-immune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and MS and not to mention chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia and the list goes on and on, the most common modern degenerative chronic ailments are linked by one thing, and that’s the immune system. And so, in researching viruses and in treating viruses what I found was that since there’s no drugs or even effective herbs or things that we have to come up with a strategy which I call the viral immunity or the viral immunity program or strategy, to strengthen and to modulate or to boost our immune systems, and what are the most important elements. And finally, by the way, I’m working, I’m just on the edges of working, concept only, right now, but with a very large international company with research in Canada and Korea and other places to develop a really world class immune-strengthening supportive formula that’s kind of broad based and would help the immune system in general, but particularly against viruses.

Kevin: What are the signs obviously that…people kind of know the signs of a weakening immune system, but what is the strategy, like what, how do you start, when do you decide to go on some sort of program that will help boost your immune system? Do you do it all the time? Is it something you go on and off of? I think this kind of encompasses a lot of questions that the audience is after.

Dr. Williams: Because there’s such a problem with dampening, weakening, or imbalancing immune system, and it tends to show up more under people with a lot of stress, and as you get older. But don’t just use those two as the only marker; it can happen to anybody at any time under many, a variety of circumstances, but the. And because all of these diseases I talked about are so linked to immunity, if there’s one thing that kind of linked them all together it would be an imbalanced or weakened or damaged immune system, that it’s important for everyone to start to take corrective action in their lifestyle, in their diet, their, the way they move, their exercise, to strengthen their immunity and to protect their immunity and to enforce it and maintain it lifelong.

Then the next part of that question is that for those people who do have the signs of a weakening immunity, then they should start to actively treat it in a, maybe we’d call it a soft way, but in a daily basis with nutrients and perhaps some herbal therapies. And then they should have the information and knowledge how to either, how to modulate upward or boost up the activity of some of those medications that they’re taking during like the fall and winter when the flu season is high, and, or if there’s, if they suspect they’re getting a virus or that they have a latent virus that’s reactivating. So, one is lifestyle part of it which everybody should do which includes also awareness of the severity of and the commonality of viral illness. And, two, a general program, sort of, almost kind of a one-sized general program that might fit everyone or close to it. And then some more specific boosting or modulating or up-regulating substances that you would only take when you need them for short periods of time, so a little kind of boost or jets of energy.

Kevin: And is it possible to eat your food so cleanly that you don’t need any of the extra stuff?

Dr. Williams: That’s a great question. I totally anticipated this one, Kevin. [laughter] I hear this so often that people say they live the perfect. . .I mean, in their own mind they, I’m exaggerating, but as if they lived the perfect diet. Nobody lives a perfect lifestyle and the perfect diet in our world, believe me. The foods that we eat in America; you could shop at the health food store and buy organic and everything; and that’s important, that’s a huge plus, and that’s going to help you a lot, but nothing in this country is pure or safe from genetically adaptation, and even trucking the fruits and vegetables, they have to be fumigated, and so forth. So, there’s no such thing as that; that’s like living in a bubble, in a pure world.

And even the places I go high in the Andes, these like Shangri-la type of places, they and other parts of the world, the living is rugged, and yes, the air is pure and clean, and the people have no disease, and etc., but it’s encroaching in on them. And it’s long, long, long ago, generations ago have encroached in on us, so our genetics have already been altered or modified. We can improve our genetic expression. We can help ourselves, in other words. But we can’t often undo the damage that our parents experienced before we were born. And so, the other thing is that if you have no immunity to infection, you’ll get infected, no matter how strong you are. In matter of fact, it will lay low the strongest of the strong, the youngest and the bravest of the brave, no one is spared when nature roars. And when viruses come in, if you don’t have the immunity to it and your immune system reacts aggressively, it’s the immune system that kills you, not the virus.

So the answer is, it’s very helpful, and it will help prevent a lot of immune system related conditions but it won’t make you completely immune or armor you to a point where you’re invincible or completely invulnerable. That’s not how biology works. And then there’s every shade of not only gray but every color of the rainbow in terms of viruses. It’s quite interesting.

Physical development in toddlers is vital for their growth. This kind of development can only be received through physical activities like climbing, crawling, running etc. Activities like climbing come naturally to a toddler and you will find that your child quite enjoys this activity. Unfortunately regular toddler toys do not cater to these activities and therefore the next best thing would be playing in the park or even better setting up large toddler toy that facilitate climbing in your backyard.

Benefits of climbing toddler toys

Climbing is excellent exercise for your child. Besides the fact that it helps physical development, it is rewarding, exciting and a fantastic way for your child to utilise his energy. Besides the fact that your child is active while playing on climbing toys, these toys also help develop the child’s social skills. For example, your child will learn how to negotiate, judge, turn etc. Climbing toddler toys also encourage pretend play.

Types of climbing toddler toys

Climbing toddler toys are large and are ideal for a backyard. As time has past these toys have also evolved and no longer look like the toys you and I probably remember from our childhood days. Today these toddler toys come with various interesting options and are safe and extremely durable. For a preschool toddler simple climbing toys are recommended as they might not be able to negotiate climbing toddler toys that have activities like swings and slides attached to them. Most climbing toddler toys also come with and option of expanding, thereby you can add on to the toy as the child gets older.

Play tunnels as toddler toys

Play tunnels are another very interesting toddler toy and your child is guaranteed to love it. These play tunnels are inexpensive and can be folded and stored, but they do require a lot of space once opened out. Play tunnels make for excellent pretend play tools. Once your toddler gets used to this new toys of his, you will find him using it as a secret hiding place, a play house and maybe even a time tunnel. Your toddler will also love playing chase in this tunnel.

Benefits of play tunnels as toddler toys

Play tunnels may seem like large toys to have around the house, but its benefits are even larger. On the physical development side, play tunnels play a large roll in developing your child’s muscles of the abdomen and the chest. This happens due to the large amount of crawling and negotiating that your child has to do to navigate through the tunnel. Play tunnels also help in developing your child’s social and mental skills. You will find that your child is applying his mental skills and is being creative and imaginative trying to figure out what he or she could use the tunnel for. You will also discover that your toddler will find a play tunnel is the most fun when share with other kids. This will develop his social skills as he will learn how to share his toddler toys, play fair, accommodate other etc.

A baby changing station is recognized to be a mandatory commercial bathroom product these days. Responding to the growing demand for “family friendly” public facilities, architects and product designers are specifying baby and child care products in both men’s and women’s commercial toilet and bath facilities. Baby changing stations thus have become an integral part of infant care in commercial areas.

Baby changing stations not only provide a level of comfort to the parents and the child; businesses benefit greatly by families staying longer, spending more, and returning often to those commercial buildings. Baby changing stations lead to a more sanitary environment in the washrooms and restrooms of malls etc and give businesses an edge over their competitors.

The latest designed baby changing stations provide a secure interface to its users which may be easily cleaned and maintained and is less subject to structural damage. These diaper changing units are available in oval, vertical, horizontal, recessed, surface mounted, countertop, stainless steel and many other shapes and sizes. The vertical diaper changing station is a great addition to all rest rooms, providing a convenient place for diaper changing and is designed to fit into small spaces.

The great features that present day baby changing stations come bundled with are the high-impact polyethylene material that resists odors and cleans easily, safety strap with snap lock fastener that keeps the squirming baby secure from falling and much more. The units also come with gas shock brakes that facilitate in closing motion and making it more convenient for the parents to change the diapers easily.

Installing a baby changing station will not only send a signal that your restaurant or commercial complex is family friendly, but you also avoid potential hazards to little kids or create messy situations in facility rooms. Thus it makes baby changing stations an important product for child care in the bathrooms that have more of family traffic.

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Having a baby can be a joyful time as well as very stressful. Nothing else comes close to the joy a mother will feel when she is holding her baby for the first time and coming days. Parents, especially the father, will show off their little newborn and take tons of pictures.

Now there is nothing more stressful than the worrying that comes with having a baby. Parents worry that everything will or will not be okay and if they are prepared for their little bundle of joy.

When it comes to clothing, new parents often feel they are unprepared when it comes to clothing their baby. Before the baby is even born, parents are getting ready for the arrival by getting the items that he or she may need. This includes: a crib, changing table, playpen, walker and last but not least baby clothes.

Parents will focus more on the cute baby outfits and not ones that still look cute but are a bit cheaper. Mothers often make this mistake more than the fathers. They focus on these outfits and not more on what babies really need.

Babies’ basic essentials.

What are baby’s basic essentials? Believe it or not, cotton bodysuits top the list along with absorbent baby blankets, bibs and baby booties. They can never have enough of these items.

Remember babies are messy in general. They possess lots of drooling, slobbering, spewing and are waste producing machines during their first year of life. This, despite of all the cuteness they contain, too.

With all the messiness, a parent may find themselves changing clothes just as much as their diapers. Sometimes it may be more. So it is wise to have plenty of clothing washed, ready and on hand.

“Onesies”! Stock up on “Onesies” suits, baby tees and cotton blankets so there will be plenty in the drawer. Yet, do not stock up on so many that eventually you have a worthless pile of baby clothes that no longer fit the baby when he or she outgrows them. Here’s a hint: Have close to five or more clean outfits ready for when you need them.

Whenever you want to take the baby out, pack extra items such as clean backups and rags. It may be that it is an additional laundry duty but you will enjoy bringing those extra clothes when it boils down to it. Let’s just say… that is one of the joys that comes along with your bundle of joy.

Being practical works best when staying at home or just running to the store. Yet, those baby clothes that you find adorable are great for church outings or a visits to the relatives. It’s also good for family photos.

You must remember that these are babies. The moment you put that cute little outfit, it could have spit-up or even runny poop on it. You may have your daughter in a pretty pink ribbon or your son in a tuxedo.
So if you find out you and your family are expecting, forget the cutie baby clothes and go for the more practical ones. In the long run, only you are going to remember what your baby wore anyways.

Should a baby shower be thrown… let your guests get them cute outfits for you. You are going to need your money for other important things.