Month: July 2019

🌈 7 weeks 🌈
A new month, and a new milestone!
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I am continually in awe by the creation of life and all of its intricacies! I swear I learn something new every day!
This is most likely the furthest along I have ever made it and that brings feelings of joy and anxiety. Every day I am learning to focus on the positives and to keep my faith and hope strong.
It is going to be SO difficult waiting 3 more weeks until my next ultrasound to verify my little rainbow gummy bear is continuing to develop and grow properly 🙏🏻🤞🏻
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As for my symptoms I have yet to experience any nausea, food aversions, or major cravings…yet. Along with the symptoms I listed on my 6 week post I also have:
🌈 Progressively sensitive breasts. When I took my bra off last night I had that familiar sore and deep ache sensation.
🌈 Weight gain. I went from a keto/low carb diet to now incorporating higher healthy carbs (sweet potato, more fruit and veggies, etc) so gaining is to be expected. I’m also more hungry.
🌈 Heart palpitations & heart pumping harder/faster. I know this is due to the extra blood now pumping through my system. It’s actually a relief to feel as a reminder that my gummy bear’s little heart is beating as well ❤
🌈 Quick, low grade cramping all over the uterus from time to time
🌈 My lower stomach toward the pubic bone is definitely more puffy and “bouncy.” I’m starting to notice the skin stretching and existing stretch marks are showing more. I guess it’s time to get some belly butter!
🌈 My skin can’t decide to be oily or dry so now it is both, and I have teeny acne bumps all over the place
🌈 My back is stiff and achy for most of the day. I need to stretch every morning again.
🌈 Pregnancy brain is in full force!
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It feels super early to me but with the way I am now feeling I may need to start looking for maternity bottoms and bras. I’ve really wanted to hold off on this for as long as possible in case my worst fears happen again with this pregnancy, but I’m also worried that I will wake up one day and nothing will fit 😳
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#7weeks #7weekspregnant #7w1d #pregnant #earlypregnancy #rainbowpregnancy #pcospregnancy #pregnancysymptoms

Vancouver teenager creates new HIV test — The test “allows users to place a drop of blood on a chip to receive a near instantaneous response to find out if they are infected, a process only slightly more difficult than a pregnancy test” (May 12, 2014) [640×425]

Nurse Dani and Ali Jones (Lactation Consultant) discuss breastfeeding.

School holidays are here!
Children are more than welcome to attend scans at Baby Stepps. x
It’s always nice to get the siblings involved in your pregnancy journey.

#babyscan #schoolholidays #earlypregnancy #genderscan #bigbrother #bigsister #newbaby #siblings

MRW after being weeks late and freaking out, i pee on a pregnancy test, wipe myself and find blood on the TP

15% to 25% of adults and adolescents struggle with sleep disorders, and that might be falling asleep or staying asleep. And oftentimes, parents wonder if melatonin should be used. Before melatonin is used, you should try developing and consistently enforcing a regular bedtime schedule. Oftentimes, that will fix the problem and help children fall asleep and stay asleep better. Pick a bedtime routine that is appropriate for your child’s age and start it about 30 minutes before you want your child to fall asleep. And another thing to consider is blue light that is emitted from electronic devices. This could affect our body’s ability to understand that it’s night time and time to go to sleep, and so experts recommend avoiding the use of electronic devices that emit blue light about an hour prior to going to sleep.

There are a few things to consider when it comes to the use of melatonin, and one is that it’s not approved or regulated by the FDA, and thus, the purity and consistency of what you’re ingesting is not verified. It is not a sleep aid. It should not be used long-term. It can be used in short term instances where a child needs to get back on track maybe after a vacation or illness, and again, it should only be given after you’ve talked with your pediatrician, they’ve said that it’s appropriate for your child, and they’ve talked with you about a schedule and about dosing.

It may also be associated with a few side effects including increased night time bed-wetting, increased drowsiness in the morning, it may also affect the development and growth of a child (especially during puberty), and it can interact with other medications that a child is taking. And so, again, these are all good reasons to talk with your pediatrician before giving it to your child. If you have more questions in the future for me, feel free to ask them on our Intermountain Moms Facebook and Instagram pages, and recommend us to your friends and family too.

A yolk sac provides nutrients for Baby until the placenta develops. It can be seen in Week 5 of gestational age and should be seen by the time of your first scan a week or so later. Why the wait? Baby’s and 💗 cannot be seen until then! Best wishes for healthy, parents-to-be!
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HIF right now: After 4 months of negative pregnancy tests (fighting with the doctors to get a blood test), I got a positive one today, we’re moving 1500 miles away next week, selling our house and my 1 year old started her terrible 2’s.

Parents have a love/hate relationship with pacifiers. If a baby will actually take a pacifier, then it can be helpful, especially when soothing them in public places and just getting them to wait a little bit longer until you’re able to feed them or to just help calm them down if nothing else is really helping. But inevitably, you’ll find yourself crawling on the floor underneath the crib trying to find it in the middle of the night when they wake up and they won’t go to sleep without it.

There are benefits to a child not taking a pacifier, the biggest one being that you never have to wean them from it, and so that makes life a little bit easier as your baby gets older. But you said that you want to try to introduce the pacifier to your baby that hasn’t taken it in the past, and there are some things that you can try. For one, keep in mind when you’re introducing the pacifier that a baby should be well-established on breastfeeding so that it doesn’t interfere with that. Once a baby is past that point, then you can try introducing it by just sticking it in their mouth and seeing if they take it, and some babies will and some won’t.

If yours doesn’t and you want to continue to encourage it, then wait till the very end of a nursing session or a bottle feeding when the baby is just a little bit drowsy, and doing the non-nutritive sucking, and it’s time to break the seal and stop the session all together. At that point, then break the seal if your nursing or pull the bottle out of the baby’s mouth and pop the pacifier into your baby’s mouth. And if they start to suck on it and do well, then great. You just may trick them a little bit when they’re tired and they’ll continue sucking. And if you do this a few times a day with most of the feedings during the day, then after a few days, then they may just take the pacifier and learn to like it.

If this isn’t working, then under the same circumstances when your baby is drowsy and at the very end of a feeding, stick the pacifier into your baby’s mouth and then just tug it back slightly. You’re going to use reverse psychology a little bit. And when you tug back slightly, the baby will actually start to suck on it a little bit harder. And so, again, if you do this a few times a day, then after a few days, the baby may take a pacifier. But if all else fails and they don’t, then that’s okay and there are other things that you can try to sooth your baby with.

You can try swaddling, you can try swaying, and you can try sound. Swaddling is comforting to babies, because they’re used to being swaddled in the womb. And they like sounds, because they’re also used to hearing the sound of a heartbeat, and the blood swishing through her body, and digestive noises when they’re inside of you, and so sounds like white noise are very comforting to babies. They also like swaying motions, so that’s why, instinctively, when we hold a baby, we all just naturally start rocking them. So you can try these things if your baby is a little bit fussy and they’re not taking a pacifier.

If you have more questions or concerns about, talk with your pediatrician and they can give you tailored information and advice. And if you have more questions in the future for me, feel free to ask them on our Intermountain Moms Facebook and Instagram pages, and recommend us to your friends and family too.

Jane and Joe are at the park doing some yoga together. 🧘‍♀️🧘‍♂️⁣
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Any exercise is important when you are trying to conceive! Pick one that you love so that you consistently do it. Doing it outdoors is even better, because then you are getting some fresh air! 🤗⁣
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I did a lot of yoga and especially yoga that got my heart rate up while I was trying to conceive. I honestly thing it helped. 🧘‍♀️⁣
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From Tommys.org (a UK evidence based organization that focuses on decreasing miscarriage and stillbirth):⁣
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Exercise/being active can boost your fertility (the ability to get pregnant). Women who do regular, moderate exercise get pregnant quicker than women who don’t exercise regularly.⁣
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It doesn’t have to be an exercise class in the gym, it means any activity that will:⁣
❤️raise your heart rate ⁣
💜make you breathe faster⁣
💛make you feel warmer.⁣
You should still be able to talk without pausing for breath. Walking briskly, for example, counts as moderate activity.🚶‍♀️⁣
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If you have a high BMI and are not getting pregnant as soon as you expected, intense exercise may improve your fertility as it will help you lose weight.⁣
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Do you exercise regularly? Tag someone who needs a reminder! And bring your partner along. It really doesn’t hurt if both of you stay in shape!🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️⁣
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