You can start controlling your weight gain during pregnancy by engaging in light exercises like, walking, strolling, taking walks, yoga and dancing. Please before engaging in any form of exercise make sure you consult with your healthcare adviser.

 Weight gain in pregnancy week by week- week 1

This is a period of last menstruation before pregnancy takes place. Though in medical term it is considered as the first week of pregnancy, but actually conception has not taken place. Your weight is still at the normal rate and no changes would be recorded.

 Many women may think that they may never have a tight vagina after pregnancy, though this fear is also normal, but you can actually achieve a tight vagina after pregnancy if you follow these simple methods below.

 Kegel exercise: this is a kind of exercise that helps tone up the pelvic floor muscles. The pelvic muscle is around the vagina and so would help and tighten up your vagina after pregnancy. All you need to do is to breathe in and hold the pelvic muscles for some seconds and then release it.

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Respiratory changes: towards the end of pregnancy there seems to be more of shortage of breath due to the growing baby prevent the lungs from expanding fully. You may notice that you are short of breath, if this short breath continues try breathing steadily while you sit down, push your lungs up and down to give you relieve. But if there is a sudden chest pain and breathe shortage, then consult your health practitioner.

Metabolism changes: when you notice that you have more crave for food often, then try to eat more of small snacks that is healthy instead of eating large meals. The frequent urge to eat is due to the baby extracting glucose and other nutritional substance from the blood stream during the day and night, which will lead to drop of sugar level leaving you hungry more often. There are some healthy foods that you can add to your diet to help relieve this feelings, like cereal, hard nut fruits that gets you to chew for some times before swallowing. It’s better to eat fewer foods in order to avoid too much weight gain during pregnancy.

Hormonal changes: during pregnancy a lot of hormones are released and existing hormones are produced, new hormones are also produced during this period. Hormones like; progesterone, estrogen, human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), insulin, calcitonin, relaxin, oxytocin, thyroxine, prolactin, erythropoietin, cortisol, human chorionic somatomammotropin(HCS)
Progesterone: progesterone plays a vital role in the development of baby, which is present both in pregnant and non-pregnant women, though the level in non-pregnant women is much lower than that of the pregnant woman. Progesterone helps to strengthen the pelvic walls for the preparation of labor; it also maintains the function of the placenta during pregnancy. The progesterone plays a very vital role in the preparation of the breast for normal milk production. It stimulates the duck so that milk will be available especially at the second trimester of the pregnancy.
(HCG) Human chorionic Gonadotropin: This is the hormone that is known as the pregnancy hormone. It triggers other hormone and stops the menstruation from flowing. The HCG is released by the developing placenta when it enters the uterus. This hormone is though to be partially the cause of vomiting and nausea feelings.
Estrogen: The estrogen hormone helps in preparation of the uterus lining for pregnancy, increasing the blood vessels and glands within the uterus. The estrogen also plays a vital role in the production of milk during the formation of pregnancy.
Insulin: The insulin is responsible for the storage of food in the baby and it also regulates the level of glucose especially in the diabetic.
Calcitonin: The calciton hormone helps increase vitamin D and conserves calcium to enable the increase need of calcium in baby to be met. It also strengthens your bones and that of the baby.
Relaxin: The relaxin helps in preparation for birth by encouraging the cervix, muscles, pelvic, and ligaments for the successful delivering of the baby after the gestation period.
Oxytocin: The oxytocin hormones is responsible for the dilation of the cervix during labor, it helps the womb in further contractions which helps to quicken the length of labor. It also stimulates the nipples causing the free flow of milk during breast feeding.
Thyroxine (T4 and T3): The thyroxine helps in the growth and development of the baby; it regulates and stimulates the baby’s growth. It’s also responsible for the development of the baby’s central nervous system, and it helps the baby to process carbohydrates and proteins.
Prolactin: It promotes the baby’s growth and prepares the breast for proper breast feeding.
Erythropoietin: The erythropoietin helps to retain salt and water by producing mass red blood cells and plasma. It is produced in the kidney and plays a vital role in the development of red blood cells in baby.
Cotisol: The cotisol is a hormone that helps the baby to use all kinds of foods within the body properly.
(HCS)Human Chorionic Somatomammotropin: This is also known as the Human Placental Lactogen(HPL) the HCS plays an important role in the development of the baby through out the pregnancy, it regulates the estrogen in order not to produce too much. The HCS is produced within the placenta in a large quantity. It may promote baby’s growth and helps to develop glands needed for breast feeding.

Circulatory changes: this pregnancy symptom is felt immediately a conception occurs; the body system would begin a tremendous change especially in the circulatory system. At about week 30 your blood circulation would be 50% more in the blood stream. This change is essential in order to enhance the development of the uterus, the placenta and the baby development. You may notice a change in your blood pressure, in some cases the pregnant woman’s blood pressure may begin to fall especially at the trimester stage of the pregnancy. You may begin to feel faintly and dizzy due to the fall in blood pressure. Another symptom is the increase of the blood pressure, though this may not be too significant, but you can always consult your health practitioner for proper examination. For Signs of pregnancy, Pregnancy disorder, Anxiety in pregnancy, Dieting in pregnancy, Bleeding in pregnancy, Treatment of pregnancy disorder

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 Pregnancy and pregnany symptoms

 Once the journey of spermatozoa enters into the fertilized uterus, and conception occurs the body will begin to experience tremendous changes which may not be noticeable at the earlier stage of the pregnancy. Some women can pinpoint the exact time when the conception took place, and would know exactly how to care for their body and the baby from thence on, while others may not until they begin to have some signs of pregnancy. During the first 13weeks or thereabout, you are unlikely to put on significant weight. All you will be experiencing is the momentous changes going on inside of you, trying to adjust to the fact that you are pregnant and the changes it will make in your body and your entire system.

For those women who cares so much about their looks, shapes and skin this may be a really difficult time as they try to prepare their minds for the task of mother-hood ahead of them. Though this change is normal in most women, but after birth your body will go back to normal with just a little exercise to tone up some loosed fat.

 From week to week you will notice significant outer changes in your body like;

Protruding stomach: The stomach begins to protrude as the pregnancy progresses, from week 20 up to the end of the pregnancy. At the end of the pregnancy, which is the delivery of the baby the stomach will go back to its normal shape. The protruding stomach is one of the most significant signs and symptoms of pregnancy.

 Larger breast: The changes in the breast are caused by the secretion of large amount of progesterone and estrogen which the body releases during pregnancy. In some women this may not be too obvious while some women may experience tremendous enlarged breast during the period of pregnancy.  

 Belly button may be stretched: This is due to the increases in size of the baby. As the baby gets larger the belly button begins to stretch out. Its normal in every woman to see the belly button stretched.

 Skin changes: One of the symptoms and signs of pregnancy is the change in the skin texture. The skin begins to feel softer due to the secretion of some hormones that are released during pregnancy. This change includes skin glow which is traditionally referred to as “pregnancy glow”. Some of the skin changes include;

Linear nigra: This is the dark line that runs through the pregnant woman’s pubic bone down to the belly button.

Acne and pimples: in most cases women who are prone to acne and pimple prior to pregnancy tends to have clearer face and skin while those who have not experience acne before may develop acne at this stage. The acne would normally clear off at the mid of the pregnancy.

Palmar erythema: This is a condition where your feet and hand becomes itchy and reddish during pregnancy. This is usually caused by the increase release of estrogen that occurs during pregnancy.

 If any of these symptoms gives you too much discomfort or increases more than normal, visit  your healthcare provider for proper examinations and advice and if possible proper treatment.

 Say no to love making, for at least 6weeks after you might have given birth to your baby, you may want to know more about how to care for your vaginal after child birth. You can easily care for your vaginal without stress or pains, and you can actually maintain a healthy vaginal and still remain healthy. Maintain your vaginal after birth and love yourself for it.

LOVE MAKING: This is a proven technique that really can help one to shed some pounds off his or her flesh. People don’t believe that you can actually loss weight due to love making, but am telling you now that you can easily loss that weight if you regularly have intercourse with your spouse, this will help keep you fit and agile and also help you to reduce some flesh out-off that skin of yours. All you do is to have fun regularly and see how much weight you will loss.

SOCIAL GATHERING: A social gathering can actually help you loss some weight. This is how it works, if you engage yourself actively in a social gathering especially of your age group, it would keep your mind off eating some unhealthy foods that can lead to obesity or you gaining weight. And because you always wants to look good among your friends in the group, you tend to watch what you eat with fun.

FRUITING: because fruits taste nice, one can actually enjoy him or her self while eating them not knowing that they are actually helping them self. Fruits helps to break down the metabolism that has already build up in our system, and it helps to free our bowel movement, which in turn helps to trim down our body.

EAT OFTEN: well I know that many fitness centers and the rest of them would suggest one eating once in a day or there about, but if you really want to loss weight without ever suffering your self or subjecting yourself to all kinds of harsh treatment, then you have to eat when ever you are hungry. Eating often helps reduce the amount of food you eat in a day. If you skip any meal be ready to gulp more food down when next you are served with a food.

TAKE WALK INSTEAD OF EXERCISE: Taking a walk is a very good way to loss weight unknowing to you. If you are taking a walk, you don’t feel the effect of wanting to loss weight, which is associated with exercises. Infant you can even take your dog out for a walk and still have fun while losing weight.

TALK WHILE EATING: I know this is not a good eating habit, but it would help you to loss weight unknowingly. When you talk and eat, it helps to slow down your eating pace which results in you eating laser foods that you would have eaten.

LOVE WATER: You have to fall in love with water, if you really want to easily loss weight while having fun. Water is the best that happen to make kind when it comes to health matters, water helps to clean the system and keep us healthy and fit. Instead of filling your self up with a soda why not substitute it with water and see the amazing wonders of water in just in few months or even weeks.

GO NATURAL: when I say go natural that means, you should avoid eating too many of junk foods, avoid going to restaurants that don’t prepare natural foods. In fact it would be best if you can prepare and make your own food. Eating natural foods help a lot to reduce some pounds off the flesh, and it also keeps you healthy.

Don’t make the mistake of trying to loss weight with haste, because this could only lead to diet crash. And the worst thing that can happen to you is when you crash your diet or alter the plan that you have already mapped out for your weight loss. Always adhere to that program and don’t be hasty about it, then you would see how fats it is to loss weight naturally fast and still have fun.

Lets put it this way, anything that is stagnant signifies non growth or if death. So if your relationship remains stagnant, it means lack of growth and if your relationship is not growing then the probability of it hitting the rock is highly possible and then divorce will be inevitable. But in this article we are going to be positive because we all wants the best out of our relationship and only the best can keep us moving.

So how do we make our relationship grow to the next level despite all odds. We will start by what pull down a relationship. Which are lies, lack of trust, infidelity, nagging, selfishness and the rest. Now lets take it one after the other to be able to get to our point.

WHAT KILLS RELATIONSHIPS

Lies: This is very harmful to a relationship as it makes one not to believe anything his/her partner does or says.

Lack of trust: this is one of the killer of a relationship as it brings sorrow and hate into a relationship. It makes people who are involved to go through pains.

Infidelity: this one is a home breaker, it inflicts more pains that can be imagined, in fact its one of the major cause of divorce in most relationships.

Nagging: joy killer is what it is called. Never sees good only bad, never satisfied always on the rage. Causes regrets and break down in relationship.

Selfishness: it destroy even the most beautiful of all relationship. Makes one to lose confidence of him/herself. Creates rage and anger in relationship.

Now lets get to what will help us grow our relationship to another level

Care: nothing boost a relationship like caring for each other, even the person with a heart of stone will melt the moment he/she is shown enough care and attention. Most people (especially men) believes that once they meet with up with the financial requirement of their spouse then they are caring. But we all know that this is not true, everyone needs to be cherished and cared for. So make it a point of duty to care for your spouse, even in the smallest way you can. You can buy gifts, take her/him out, and personally find out what he or she needs at a particular point in time.

Truth: instead of lying, its better you avoid the matter entirely, and if your spouse insists on bringing up the matter, then tell the truth, as this is the only thing that will keep your relationship from hitting the rock, make sure you don’t have a cause to tell lies. Even the old saying that “only the truth can set you free” would be useless if you don’t apply it in your relationship.

Closeness: the moment this is lacking in your relationship then, you are losing ground. Closeness makes you share even the most secret things among you. Never allow your partner to be drifted apart from you. Make it a point that you maintain that closeness you have shared, so that your relationship will get to a greater height which you desire.

Selflessness: this is the opposite of selfishness. It gives without with holding, it lavishes one with love, care and its as open as ever. Never thinking of ones self, this is a relationship booster, it automatically makes your partner to be more involved in the relationship. Knowing fully well that you can give as much as he /she is giving.

Humbleness: when we talk about humble, its not only the woman that is suppose to be humble in a relationship, but all parties involved should show some respect and humbleness that will take their relationship to another level. Remember that a relationship is a give and take thing, you only gets what you put, so put more love, care, respect, humbleness and you will get even greater returns. Remember that you dont need to settle for less in your relationship

Wish you all the best in your relationship as you continue to grow to your desired level in love, care and happiness.

Commitment: this is the key word, for you to get the best out of your relationship. You must be committed to everything you have and do in other to get the best. Before you settle down for any kind of relationship, make sure that your partner is committed to the cause. Don’t rush into a relationship without being sure of the level of commitment on the part of your partner.

Cherish: you have to cherish whatever you have in order to get the best out of it, if not it wont be of a value to you. Like wise in your relationship, you have to cherish your partner and vise-visa. When this is lacking in your relationship then you need to have a rethink.

Originality: this is very important in our day to day dealings. If some one is faking to be something he/she is not then, the person is not worth our effort and time. Because honestly speaking relationship takes up ones time and it takes a lot of effort to build. And that is why you must not settle for less in your relationship.

Pretence: a pretender is a liar, and that is very dangerous for our relationship. Pretending to be what you are not is a killer in relationship. Be open, show real love, don’t act. Relationship is not a movie where you are the actor, just be your self as you will get the best out of your relationship if you are whom you claim to be.

Getting the best out of your relationship is something everyone looks forward to, and will gets if you put enough time and effort. Its only you who can take your relationship to next level despite all odds

Be the first- most women believe that the man should always be the first to ask for canal knowledge, but census has proven it wrong that men gets more aroused when the women approach them first on that issue. So as a woman you ants to make your husband want more be the first to ask and see what progress you make.

Be free- when I talk about being free, am talking about giving yourself to him totally, make him believe that he is worth you. Don’t restrict him because that can make him look in other direction, which we all know is not healthy for a relationship. Talk freely with him by letting him know the areas which you loved most to be touched. Just be free and see how he is going to come back asking for more.

Proper hygiene- if you don’t maintain a proper hygiene this could drive your husband or spouse away from you. Take a special care of your personal under wears and make sure that they are always clean, and they smell fresh always. Men don’t like to see dirty and smelly under wears. Make them want more by keeping yourself clean at all times.

Sweet vagina-yeah sweet vagina is a vagina that smells fresh and nice always. You can maintain a healthy vagina by keeping your vagina clean, tight and healthy. No man wants to associate with a loose and oozing vagina. U can use a good vagina wash to keep it clean, tight and smelling nice. So that when the man comes he is welcomed with a nice smelling aroma, that will keep him wanting more of you.

Then if you wants to make your husband/spouse a slave for life, follow these tips.

Wonderful romance- this is very vital in your relationship, it makes the man feel that he accepted and fully loved. It also boost personal feelings, thereby creating more rooms for you and you husband/spouse in the relationship. What I mean is that have more time to display how much you care and love each other, this way you will make him your slave without knowing you did.

Great canal knowledge- love making is one of the area that most men cherish in a relationship, don’t just have sex but have a great sex, as this is the sure way of trapping him for life, thereby making him your man slave. When making love, always create a new and unique styles or position that you believe will make him go bananas. The reason why most women have not been able to enslave their man is that they lack the technical know-how of the act of canal knowledge. But you can improve your act of performance by reading some articles on canal knowledge performance improvement. Or buying books that will enhance your performance.

Take your relationship to the next level, and never you settle for less in your relationship if you want to enslave your husband totally.

Its always a wonderful idea if we as women can get our husband/spouse to become our slave, that way we not have to worry over their faithfulness as we already have the confidence that they will keep coming back to us for more and more of the action that we give.