Boston: Hypoglycemia and Your Premature Baby

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Hypoglycemia is low blood glucose (sugar), and is a problem in premature babies because of limited glycogen stores. Glycogen is sugar stored by the liver. In a premature baby, the immature liver does not function to the capacity needed to produce the necessary glycogen crucial to the premature baby’s body.

Blood glucose is the main source of fuel to the brain and since it is so important, persistent or dangerous hypoglycemia levels can result in seizures and serious brain damage. There are many symptoms that can lead the doctors to the conclusion that hypoglycemia may be a consideration including:

Restlessness

Deficient body tone

Scanty feeding

Listlessness

Hypothermia

Apnea

Cyanosis

Seizures

Many of the symptoms that may indicate hypoglycemia also can pinpoint other problems and complications, so it is very important to listen to your doctor’s diagnosis.

Hypoglycemia can be a very serious condition if it is not diagnosed and treated right away. It is very uncommon for this condition not to be noticed right away and testing for it to be delayed because your premature baby is constantly monitored. Many of these and other tests are routinely given because they are common conditions. Hypoglycemia is diagnosed through blood testing.

The solution to hypoglycemia in your premature baby can be simple, such as feeding the baby a glucose/water formula, or it can be complex, such as giving glucose intravenously. Sometimes insulin injections are given to your premature baby to help her metabolize the glucose being given to her. Insulin is a hormone secreted naturally by the body, and it helps to convert glucose to glycogen. Glycogen lowers the blood glucose level.

Whatever solution your doctor chooses for your premature baby, it will be the best one for your individual baby. Your premature baby must be monitored carefully to make sure the hypoglycemia does not return. Like many other premature baby medical issues, your baby cannot be released from the hospital until she can maintain her own blood sugar level.

Source by Sjona Lindquist

Hypoglycemia and Your Premature Baby

Boston: Sexual Or Intercourse Positions to Get Pregnant With a Girl Baby

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There are many natural, inexpensive things that you can do at home to influence the odds of your getting pregnant with a baby girl. Of these, the sexual positions that you use to conceive is probably the mostly widely known variable and is the easiest to achieve. In this article, I’ll discuss which positions to use and why they help in your quest for a daughter.

Why The Positions You Use To Conceive Matters If You Are Trying For A Girl Baby: Before I tell you which positions to use, I first want to explain why this is important. The X or girl producing sperm are very slow but are also very strong and long lived. The Y sperm which produces a boy are very fast, but are also quite weak. So, when you are trying for a girl, you want to give the boy sperm a long, difficult, and drawn out trip to the egg to ensure that they have all died off by the time they get there.

The Shallow Sexual Positions That Favor Conceiving A Girl Baby: Remembering the boy sperm’s vulnerability, if you want a female baby, you should use shallow penetration because the boy sperm will have a long, difficult trip as a result, but the girl sperm can live long enough to survive it.

The missionary or traditional position (male on top) achieves shallow penetration and places the sperm at the mouth, opening, or base of your cervix, which is precisely where it needs to be. Achieving this shallow deposit can be a bit more difficult if the man is a great deal taller than the woman. In this case, the spooning position (just like spooning when you sleep) can sometimes work better as the taller man can easily place himself at a lower angle.

Another way to achieve shallow penetration is for the woman to lay flat on her stomach with her legs close together while the man(also in the lying position) enters from behind, careful to limit the depth of penetration. Sometimes, I have couples tell me that for practical reasons, they are not able to achieve shallow penetration with any of these suggestions. For these couples, there are donut shaped rings that fit over the penis to ensure that penetration can go no deeper than where the donut gadget is placed. This way, you don’t really have to worry about the logistics of your positioning.

Other Things That You Should Do When Conceiving A Girl: Sexual positions are important in gender selection, but there are a few other things that you should do. One is to time your conception correctly. The girl sperm can live for a while, waiting for the egg, while boy sperm can not. So, you want to conceive three days before you ovulate. But, for this to work you need to know exactly when ovulation happens. Get and use a very reliable ovulation predictor. I like the saliva kind as they are very reliable and reusable.

The second thing you need to consider when trying for a baby girl is your acidity and PH. Again, you want to create a hostile environment for the boy sperm. The way to do this is to raise your body and vaginal PH. You can use a special diet or douching to do this and you can make this easier by first testing yourself with little strips that will tell you exactly how acidic you already are. You can get them at health food stores or on line. Once you know where you stand, you can make changes as necessary and continue to test until you achieve the reading you need to conceive a girl.

Source by Sandy Dean

Sexual Or Intercourse Positions to Get Pregnant With a Girl Baby

Boston: Pregnancy - A Changing Scene - Some Tips for the Early Days

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As a midwife I was supposed to know it all, but your body and emotions change, and pregnancy is a different experience for everyone. It is a time where you can predict nothing, and the outcome is unknown.

For a first time mother there are special delights and difficulties because of the unknown, and always there is a lack of confidence even for me when I was supposed to know it all.

As a married woman and fully committed to work and home there was nothing more I wanted than a son just like my husband, I was fortunate as this is just as it was. There are many in my situation married or in stable relationships, but others that are young and where pregnancy becomes an emotional roller coaster.

The decision to keep or abort the fetus is outside this remit. It is not an easy decision and thankfully I didn`t have to make it. One thing I can advise is to seek professional help and counseling. Don`t make a hasty decision.

The Early Days

When I became pregnant with my first son it was an exciting time. There were no instant tests and apart from body changes you had to wait until you were 6-8 weeks pregnant. This is an anxious time and more sore if confirmation is delayed. Pregnancy can be a time of pleasure or misery depending on your state of health and emotional outlook, but there are ways to alleviate some of the physical and emotional pressures by natural means.

Some women are lucky and don`t experience the very early signs of morning sickness, I was one of these. However there are ways to combat the awful feelings.(some tips later.)

There are other feelings and signs which you become aware of. There is a blooming and radiance of the skin, or the opposite some hormonal rashes.

Emotionally you change, which is why you commonly here “it’s her hormones”. Don`t forget the uterus has now to prepare for a growing fetus. Hormones dramatically alter to accommodate this, so naturally you will feel different. Early on you will be on a high, then gradually this will settle and you will become agitated and worried. Each little twinge will cause you to think that you are losing this precious baby. This very rarely happens, it`s just your body tweaking itself to accommodate a new situation.

Don`t forget your partner. They may not see this pregnancy as you do. It is a big responsibility and they may feel trapped. Insecure, childlike and frightened. Talk things through with him. After all this should be a joint venture.

Some Common Problems

Fainting and Dizziness

This is usually caused by standing quickly and is rarely a cause for concern, although can be a nuisance.

It may be caused by Anaemia although in this day and age because of early diagnosis of pregnancy a doctor is seen and women are given iron and vitamins early on.

A side effect of taking iron is constipation, although this may be a pregnancy problem in itself. Doctors often change the prescription when this occurs and you can counteract this by eating fruit and drinking more water.

Do:

• Take life at a slower pace


• Sit down immediately if you feel faint


• Stand up slowly from a sitting position

Morning Sickness.

This is a nuisance condition and although commonly seen in the morning, can occur at any time.

It can be exacerbated by noise, and smells. Many things can worsen nausea like eating, drinking, motion, sleeping and emotional upsets.

It was thought that morning sickness was caused by hormonal changes. I have long formed the opinion that emotional stress forms a large part of the problem.

Pregnancy may have been wanted or unwanted, but when the realisation hits in the emotions take over, and many have doubts about themselves or their partners. It very much depends on the individual and your emotional type. Some worry over everything, so it is natural that these normal traits become exaggerated during pregnancy.

Look inside yourself and be ready to talk particularly to your partner about any anxieties and guilt feelings you have. This will often lessen the problem

Do:

• Talk through difficult feelings with your partner or a close friend.


• Eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables for a couple of days.


• Try eliminating fats and rich foods


• Make sure you are getting enough Calcium


• Eat little and often


• On waking even before getting up eat a dry biscuit or piece of dry toast, then sit up and drink. Try a glass of hot or cold lemon and honey, or a cup of herbal tea. Some women have found this excellent advice.

Don`t:

• Fast


• Let yourself get hungry. This drops your blood sugar levels


• Worry if you lose some weight. Your baby will take what it needs from your body.

Seek Help:

• If the nausea is excessive and especially if accompanied by diarrhoea.


• Seek counselling if you are unable to talk to anyone close.

Pregnancy Rashes

These are odd and can occur for no reason. They can irritate and be a real nuisance. There is no known cause and are difficult to clear up. The only thing I have found useful is the Homoeopathic remedy Rhus Tox 6

Some Remedies that may help

These remedies are safe and will not harm the unborn child.

• Bach Remedy, particularly Rescue. This can be purchased from most good chemists. This is a stress reliever and will help with stress of any kind.


• Nux Vom 30/6 This is a Homoeopathic remedy and should be able to be purchased from a Chemist


• Another Homoeopathic remedy Pulsatilla 6 which can be purchased from a chemist is a good all rounder and will deal with any catarrhal or sinus problems as well as hormonal.


• For pregnancy rashes use Rhus Tox 6. Take two tablets twice a day for 10days. Leave a few days and repeat as necessary.

Thank you for reading this article and I hope you find it useful.

Source by Ann Moore

Pregnancy - A Changing Scene - Some Tips for the Early Days

Boston: Miscarriage Effects - How To Deal With Them

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If you have just recovered from a miscarriage, you will naturally want to know about its impacts on your body and mind. How can you deal with life after a miscarriage? What sort of emotional and physical treatment will you have to take? When will it be safe for you to try for another child? You will seek answers to such questions.

You can obtain a lot of information about dealing with life after a miscarriage from the innumerable sources that are available. These sources of information about miscarriage could be doctors, support groups, counselors, online forums, websites, friends, family members, and books.

Dealing with life immediately after miscarriage depends on the type of miscarriage you have suffered. In case you have had a missed or incomplete miscarriage, you might simply have to wait for a natural miscarriage or induce one with the help of medication or surgery. One of the common complications of pregnancy is a natural miscarriage. In case of such a miscarriage, most women get admitted into the hospital and, once they are better, go back home to recover.

If you want to find out the reasons for your miscarriage, you will have to undergo several medical tests and get yourself thoroughly examined. Besides, you should get your medical history as well as that of your partner’s reviewed by a competent doctor. You may have to undergo the following tests after a miscarriage: blood test, testing your reproductive organs for infection, genetic counseling and genetic testing, biopsy of the uterine lining, ultrasounds, and x-rays of the reproductive tracts.

Do you want to try for a child again after miscarriage? You can do so. Having a miscarriage does not necessarily mean that you will never have a healthy pregnancy anymore. If you want to try for another child, talk to your doctor about when it will be safe for you to try to conceive again. Your physician will be able to give you a lot of relevant information about how you can avoid any further risk of miscarriages.

Your body will recover quickly after a miscarriage. However, you will have to take care of your emotional health. You can recover emotionally just by talking about your experience. Friends and family have to offer a lot of support to women who have suffered a miscarriage.

The best way to give vent to your emotions is to keep a diary and write your feelings in it. Participate in online forums or read books on the subjects to learn about how other women have dealt with life after a miscarriage.

Many women find great comfort in remembering the baby they have lost in a very special manner. One of the ways to remember a lost child could be to preserve ultrasound reports, organise a memorial service, or give the baby a special name.

Source by Abhishek Agarwal

Miscarriage Effects - How To Deal With Them

Boston: Chronic Diseases and Pregnancy

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Speaking about health before pregnancy, we mean way of life, nutrition, physical activity, habits, and also possible chronic diseases, such as heightened blood pressure or diabetes. If you have such diseases, then you just have to visit a doctor beforehand. You know, this may complicate pregnancy, bring harm to an unborn baby. Tell your doctor which medicinal preparations and in which doses you take. Doctor will recommend you tests and observations you should pass, for example, X-ray photography. Try to discuss all questions you have for the moment.

It is much simpler to think over a strategy of treatment before pregnancy and then worrying about complications.

Diabetes

Diabetes – it is a disease, appearing as a result of lack of insulin in organism, this hormone is produced by pancreas. If you have diabetes, it will be more difficult for you to become pregnant. Moreover, diabetes can influence passing of pregnancy seriously. First of all, it can become a reason of miscarriage or giving birth to a dead baby. Secondly, women suffering from diabetes can give birth to babies with inborn defects.

You can reduce risk of such complications due to constant control of sugar content in blood during pregnancy. If you don’t care of your state, then diabetes while pregnancy may turn out to be dangerous both for you and your future baby. Majority of complications, connected with diabetes, are displayed during first trimester, i.e. during first 13 weeks of pregnancy.

Pregnancy may cause complications of state while diabetes, what will require increase of insulin doses. This can be easily determined with help of test on sugar content in blood. Majority of doctors recommend taking a special care of this disease development during at least 2-3 months before conception. This will help to reduce probability of risk of miscarriage or other problems. Probably, you will have to pass tests on sugar content in blood several times per day, to control disease completely and avoid possible complications. Past experience shows that women, suffering from diabetes, had serious problems with conception and passing of pregnancy. But die to complete and constant control even women-diabetics can count on successful result of pregnancy and delivery.

If in your family there were cases of diabetes or you have slightest suspicions as for your own health, pass tests before pregnancy surely.

Asthma

About 1% of pregnant women suffer from asthma. It is impossible to predict influence of pregnancy on asthma. Half of women, suffering from this disease, notice no changes during pregnancy, about 25% feel even slight improvement, and the rest (25%) observe worsening of state.

Majority of anti-asthma remedies are safe for pregnant, but it is still better to consult a doctor as for preparation to take. Almost all who suffer from asthma know what may become a reason of fit, so avoid contact with allergens before getting pregnant and during whole pregnancy. Try to control your state yet before pregnancy.

Hypertension

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, can cause complication both of mother’s and unborn baby’s health. For women it is connected with risk of refusal of kidneys work, probability of hypertensic crisis or headache. Increase of a future mother’s blood pressure may become a reason for decrease of blood inflow to placenta, what will lead to delays of fetus development, i.e. a baby will weigh less, than normal while birth.

If you had high blood pressure before pregnancy, then you just have to take care of it during all 9 months. Probably, gynaecologist will send you to therapeutist’s or family doctor’s observation with this purpose.

Before making a decision to become pregnant, women, suffering from hypertension, should consult a doctor. Some remedies against high blood pressure are safe for pregnant, some are not. On no account quit taking pills and reduce dose without a doctor’s prescription! This can be dangerous. If you plan giving birth to a baby, ask you doctor about remedies you are taking against high blood pressure, and about safety of taking these medicines during pregnancy.

Heart diseases

During pregnancy load on heart increases about 50%. If you have sick heart, it is necessary for your doctor to know about it before you become pregnant.

Some heart diseases, such as mitral valve prolapse, can seriously complicate passing of pregnancy. Probably, you will even have to take antibiotics before delivery. Other heart diseases, such as inborn heart disease, may seriously influence state of health. In this case pregnancy and delivery are sometimes contra-indicated.

Consult your doctor as for heart diseases before you become pregnant.

Kidneys and urinary bladder diseases

Infections of urinary system, in particular urinary bladder, often appear during pregnancy. If you don’t cure disease in time, infection may pass to kidneys, causing pyelonephritis.

Infections of urinary bladder and pyelonephritis may lead to premature birth. If you ever suffered from pyelonephritis or repeating infections of urinary system, this should be determined before pregnancy.

Stones in kidneys also may complicate passing of pregnancy. This disease is accompanied by severe pains in lower part of belly, so it is quite difficult to diagnose it during pregnancy. Moreover, stones in kidneys may become a reason of appearance of infections of urinary system and pyelonephritis.

If you ever had some only infection of urinary bladder, you should not worry a lot. But you still should inform your doctor about it. He will decide whether you need to pass more careful observation before pregnancy.

Thyroid gland diseases

Thyroid gland diseases may appear both because of excess or lack of thyroid hormone. Excess of hormone is called thyrotoxicosis. In this case metabolism in human organism is speeded up. This may be caused by Graves’ disease. Thyrotoxicosis is usually cured with help of operation of medicinal remedies, reducing content of thyroid hormone in organism. If you don’t cure this disease, there’s rather high level of risk premature birth and giving birth to a baby with low weight.

You can carry our treatment during pregnancy too: there’re quite safe preparations, which pregnant women may take.

Lack of thyroid hormone – hypothyroidism – is usually caused by disease of autoimmune origin. In this case thyroid gland is damaged by anti-bodies, which are produced by your organism. While hypothyroidism taking of thyroid hormones is prescribed. Not cured hypothyroidism threatens with sterility or habitual noncarrying of pregnancy.

If you have thyrotoxicosis or hypothyroidism, you need to pass through observation before pregnancy, to determine doses of medicinal remedies, necessary for treatment. In the process of pregnancy your necessity in preparations may change, and then you will have to pass another observation.

Anemia

Anemia means that there’s lack of haemoglobin in your organism. There’re several reasons and in connection with this several kinds of anemia. Symptoms of anemia are weakness, giddiness, lack of air and pale skin.

During pregnancy necessity of organism in iron and iron-containing substances increases. If in the beginning of pregnancy you suffer from lack of iron in blood, anemia increases this lack. So you need to take vitamins and preparations, containing full choice of microelements, necessary for organism.

One of specific types of anemia – sicle-cell disease, which is passed genetically: it is mainly spread among black population. If you suffer from sicle-cell disease, your organism is deprived of oxygen. Passing of this kind of anemia can be very painful, and it also may serve as a reason for other diseases and complications during pregnancy. Sicle-cell disease cannot be cured and may be passed to your baby. Women, suffering from sicle-cell disease, have very high percent of miscarriages and infections of urinary system. They also may suffer from high blood pressure and painful hypertension strokes.

Another kind of anemia – thalassanemia is also passed genetically. If some of your relatives suffers from thalassanemia or you suppose you can have it, check it before pregnancy.

Lupus

Lupus is a vascular disease of autoimmune origin. This means your organism produces anti-bodies that may destroy your organs or influence functions of these organs negatively. Lupus can affect different organs, including joints, kidneys, lungs and heart.

This disease is hard to diagnose. One woman of 700 in the age from 15 to 64 years suffers from lupus. Among black women it is met more often, in one case of 254. As a rule, lupus more often strikes women, than men, especially women of genital age, i.e. from 20 to 40 years.

Lupus treatment is highly individual and usually means taking if steroids. It is better not to become pregnant during fit of this disease, as miscarriages are extremely often among women suffering from lupus. Risk of giving birth to a dead baby also increases.

Babies, born from mothers, suffering from lupus, can have rash. They also can have different heart diseases. Premature birth and delay of pre-natal development of fetus are also quite possible.

If you suffer from lupus, consult your doctor before pregnancy definitely.

Epilepsy and epileptic seizures

Epilepsy – is a chronic disease, characterized by different kinds of seizures (fits). Most often epilepsy is displayed by big and small epileptic seizures. Chance of giving birth to a baby with epileptic disease can be 1 of 30 for women, suffering from epilepsy. Such babies have risk of in-born diseases, probably, connected with medicines, which a future mother took during pregnancy.

If you take medicines against epilepsy, it is very important to consult your doctor before pregnancy. Discuss doses and type of medicines, which you take, as many preparations, relieving seizures of epilepsy, cause in-born diseases in babies. However, there are safe remedies for fetus, for example, Phenobarbital.

Seizures can be dangerous both for mother and fetus. So it is especially important to take remedies precisely according to a doctor’s prescription during pregnancy. On no account reduce dose or quit taking medicine yourself, without a doctor!

Migraine

About 15-20% of all pregnant women suffer from migraine. Many women notice improvement of health during pregnancy. If you are going to take pills against headache during pregnancy, check with your doctor how much they are safe for you and future baby.

Cancerous growths

A question of probability of cancer’s influence on pregnancy depends on the fact which organ it stroke and how wide is growth. Breast cancer is most often form of cancer, met among women. If you had breast cancer, this will not influence pregnancy anyway, and pregnancy, in its turn, will not cause breast cancer.

Many doctors advice to wait 2-3 years with childbirth after breast cancer treatment. It is very important to discuss case history and method of treatment with your doctor yet before pregnancy. Situation may become quite complicated, if you are pregnant and pass treatment at the same time. Many medicines and remedies against cancer are not safe for future mother and baby.

Other diseases

We examined only some chronic diseases. However, any disease can be dangerous for future baby. So if you suffer from some chronic disease or have to take medicines constantly, discuss it with your doctor.

General rule is following: it is better not to take medicines or pass any medical treatment at the moment of conception and on early stages of pregnancy. Laying of all organs and tissues of a baby takes place during 1st trimester of pregnancy, and during this period you need to protect a future baby from harmful influences of medicines or observations. You will feel better and calmer, if you solve all these problems before pregnancy.

Source by Yana Mikheeva

Chronic Diseases and Pregnancy

Boston: How to Conceive a Boy - The Whelan Method

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Gender selection program dates back 800 years ago when a Chinese chart was discovered. The chart contains a list of dates that tells when is the best time to conceive a gender of your choice. In 1960, a more scientific and natural approach were introduced by Dr. Ludlum Shettle, or commonly called the Shettles method. This method then one of the famous until experts began to observed and made studies of their own methods. One of then is the study that was conducted by Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. Whelan states that changes in biochemical behavior in women happens earlier that what the Shettles method concept. Her method is completely opposite to that of the Shettles method. Though many experts do not agree with regards of the effectiveness of the two, still many couples wants to try hoping to have the gender of their choice.

The concept still lies with close observation of the ovulation in women. When a basal test is performed a temperature hike is observed when the time of the ovulation is near. When this is observed intercourse will be 6 days before ovulation when a couple wants to have a boy. If a couple wants to have a girl, intercourse will be 2 days before the ovulation.

Also, Dr. Whelan suggests that women who tried to conceive a boy should eat foods rich in potassium and salt. Examples of these foods are bacon, ham, sausage, salty chips or nuts. Include also foods which have a high calorie content like cereals and meat specifically read meat. For couples who wants to have baby girl, foods rich in magnesium and calcium should be eaten. Example of these foods are dairy products, ice cream, fruit juice, and also include foods that are low in sodium content.

The concept clearly tells us that its really the opposite of the Shettles method. Though the foods that includes in the diet were the same. But these techniques are cheap compared to others. Some techniques like that of the test tube and other laboratory techniques which requires a lot of time bit don’t guarantee the same results like the other techniques.

There are techniques that are all natural and less expensive. These also helps many couples around the world and offers a 95 % effetiveness.

Source by Judith Joyce

How to Conceive a Boy - The Whelan Method

Boston: The Secret Life of the American Teenager!

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The Secret Life of The American Teenager is a popular new television series from the creator of 7th Heaven, Kelly Lonergan. The first episode aired in America on ABC Family, on July 1st 2008.

Ratings for the show are through the roof and have left fans begging for more! When its fifth episode aired it officially became more popular than Gossip Girl! Something I would never have expected (huge gossip girl fan here!)

The show focuses on the character Amy Juergens and her unplanned teenage pregnancy. It’s addictive to watch from the opening scene, when Amy comes home smuggling a home pregnancy test inside her French horn case as her mother tells her that she needs to get out and have some fun.

Meet the kids from The Secret Life of The American Teenager

Amy Juergens

A sometimes shy, always nerdy marching band member who hooked up with the schools notorious bad boy Ricky at band camp. Amy finds out in the first episode that shes pregnant with Rickys baby

Ricky Underwood

Yes this is the guy who knocked up Amy after taking her virginity at band camp. The school drummer has made it his goal to sleep with as many girls as he can. He is a bit messed up because as a child he was sexually abused by his father. Ricky is often seen hanging around the campus with his ‘bedmate’ Adrian Lee (the token “bad girl” of the school)

Ashley Juergens

She’s only 13 but dresses as if she’s 18. Ashley is very opinionated and switched on when it comes to whats happening around her. Her rebelliousness has resulted in losing her parents trust, but is it really Ashley they should be worried about?

Grace Bowman

Grace is a hardcore Christian girl who also happens to be the head cheerleader. She was dating Jack Pappas until it was revealed that he had sex with Adrian.

Jack Pappas

Grace’s ex-boyfriend. He’s on the football team and he sure is a jerk. After cheating on Grace he tells her that the only reason he asked her out is because his step father told him to. Not one of the most loved characters of the series, he starts to develop a bit of a thing for Adrian

Ben Boykewick

‘The Sausage Prince’ Well his dad owns a business called The Sausage King and its referred to a lot in the show. He is a geeky guy who falls in love with Amy. He doesn’t know Amy is pregnant until his father mentions it. When she confesses he proposes to her and wants to tell everybody the baby is his. A little bit creepy but also very sweet. He is head over heels for her.

Adrian Lee

The “bad girl”. She is sleeping with Ricky Underwood and also hooks up with Grace’s boyfriend Jack. She wants to be his girlfriend but he seems to be using her for sex. She gets high grades but tries to keep it a secret because she likes her reputation.

Source by Mel J L

The Secret Life of the American Teenager!

Boston: Vinegar Warts and General Wart Treatment

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Vinegar warts are warts which appear white when tested by applying vinegar. The term comes from the fact that doctors may use vinegar in which the main reactive agent is acetic acid to see whether bumps and imperfections in the genital area (male and female) are warts or not. The test is not well thought of, but it is understood that it may be used as a starting-point for diagnosis, and is much improved if the suspected area is looked at by the Doctor using a strong magnifier.

The vinegar test is not reliable for detecting HPV-warts because it gives many false positive and also false negative results. This test is normally used in conjunction with magnification (colposcopy) to mark the cervical areas from where biopsy is taken.

Usually the vinegar test when used is then combined with a standard Pap Test and the two are administered at the same time and the results compared. So, if the vinegar test yields an abnormal result, the person undergoes colposcopy (which as stated above, uses a high-powered magnification device to examination) to confirm the results.

In the vast majority of cases though, warts are harmless skin growths caused by a virus. They have a rough surface on which tiny dark specks may be seen.

Warts can occur on the feet and are one of several soft tissue conditions of the foot that can be quite painful. They are caused by an infectious virus, which generally invades the skin through small or invisible cuts and abrasions.

Warts may be frozen with various commercial freezing probes or with liquid nitrogen sprayed on or applied with a cotton swab. This technique is known as cryotherapy, and it is is often used for plantar warts and warts under the fingernails.

Warts are caused by a viral infection, called the human papillomavirus (HPV) and are contagious when in contact with the skin of an infected person. It is possible to get warts from using towels or other objects used by an infected person.

Warts that appear on the hands and feet aren’t caused by the same virus that causes genital warts but by another kind of HPV type of virus that isn’t sexually transmitted. Warts are an infectious disease caused by the HPV virus. They frequently develop on the hands, feet (plantar warts) and the face.

Warts are caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV), and there are more than 60 varieties of it. You most often get a wart from coming into contact with the virus through skin-to-skin contact. All of the common methods of wart treatment involve irritating the warts.

Warts are very common and it is estimated that 4 out 5 people will have at least one wart during their lifetime.

Warts on the face are often flatter in appearance and are called flat warts.

Treatment after the vinegar test possibly reduces, but does not eliminate, HPV infection. Existing data indicate that currently available therapies for genital warts might reduce, but probably do not eradicate, HPV infectivity. Treatment may include prescription medications and certain medical procedures. Thankfully, treatment seems to lower the chance of passing the infection to a sex partner.

Women who have genital warts can have healthy pregnancies. But a pregnant woman should tell her health care provider if she’s ever had genital warts. Women with genital warts should have a cervical smear test done once a year.

What practical advice can we give to alleviate wart problems? The first and most obvious is to avoid scratching warts so that they don/’t get sore or spread.

Unfortunately, infection with genital warts may not be obvious, which tends to mean that the spread can occur very often without the contagious partner being aware of the problem.

All infected areas should be cleansed thoroughly and dried using a clean towel. Medication like powders, sprays or anti fungal cream should be used as directed by your Doctor.

This article is provided for general reading and entertainment and is not medical advice. Consult your medical advisor, doctor or nurse about all aspects of any ailment and treatment.

Source by Steve D Evans

Vinegar Warts and General Wart Treatment

Boston: Douching to Increase Chances of a Baby Boy Conception

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I often write about naturally choosing the gender of your baby. Most people know that douching can be an easy and inexpensive way to alter your body’s PH to make it more friendly for the gender that you prefer. Although this can be true, there is a lot of misconception out there. For example, many women have heard that douching with baking soda will get you a son. While the idea behind this is correct, baking soda alone is often not going to be enough. I’ll explain why that’s so in this article. I will also explain the correct way to use douching if you want a boy, and will offer you some other variables you’ll need to consider if you’re trying to conceive a boy baby.

The Science Behind Douching To Conceive A Boy: You may know that douching is one tool to get a son, but do you know why? Its due to the characteristics of the boy sperm. The sperm (Y) that produces a son is faster, which is an advantage. But, it’s also weaker, which can put you at a serious disadvantage. For example, girl sperm can live in your reproductive tract for days – no matter what the environment, but you have to treat boy sperm with kid gloves. An acidic environment can be a real challenge for boy sperm, which is where douching comes in

Why Douching With Baking Soda Is Often Not Enough To Get You A Low Enough PH For A Baby Boy: Now that you understand why we douche, it’s also very important to understand that how you do it can make a huge difference. Hopefully, I’ve shown you why weak boy sperm and a high PH don’t mix. So, there’s no question that you have to make your vagina more alkaline. Most people’s minds then jump to baking soda because it is an alkaline substance. But, unless you are already highly alkaline naturally, baking soda is often not strong enough to produce an environment that is going to be low enough to ensure the Y sperm are safe. There are alternatives that can sometimes work better. (You can even test this, which I’ll discuss below.)

The Right Way To Douche To Get A Son: Many people approach this process flying blind. They have no idea how acidic they really are so they make a half hearted effort at douching and just hope that they are doing it right. There is a better way. Go out and buy yourself some vaginal PH testing strips at a nutrition center or online. Then, find out exactly where you fall. Now, you’re armed with important information as to how much tweaking you really need. (Many women will find that they have quite a ways to go. But, it’s better to know so that you be proactive.) And, there are recipes available (other than baking soda) that can get very dramatic results at home. It’s also important that you continue to monitor so you know exactly when you’ve achieved your goal and are ready to start trying for a boy.

If you want to check how well baking soda is working, test yourself before a baking soda douche and then after. Often, you’ll see there is not enough of a change to get you “in the boy zone.”

Foods And Your Diet Can Also Help Lower Your PH: If you want to get a “boy friendly” PH as quickly as possible, adding an alkaline diet to your regimen can help you get there very quickly. This just means avoiding foods with a high PH and stacking your diet with the foods that are going to neutralize your body and bring your reading lower. Again, there are food lists available that can make this easier for you. If you are reasonably careful about this and are combining this with the douching, you shouldn’t have to do this for very long. If you’re not in any grave hurry, you can skip this step if you want, but it is an alternative if speed is concern for you.

Other Things You Can Do To Help in Conceiving A Son: PH and acidity are very important in conceiving a boy, but you’re not home free yet. People who fail with this process often do so because they are only trying to alter ONE variable out of a few. You really can’t leave much to chance here. The boy sperm are too weak to leave them vulnerable.

You’ll also need to time your conception to occur on the late end of your fertility cycle (the day of ovulation, preferably). Don’t leave this to chance. Invest in a ovulation predictor so that you know for sure.

And, use sexual / intercourse positions that ensure you place the sperm where it is very close in proximity of your cervix (for most, this is deep penetration.) You do this because it buys you time – and time is very precious when you are dealing with the short lived boy sperm.

Source by Sandy Dean

Douching to Increase Chances of a Baby Boy Conception

Boston: Implantation Failure With In Vitro Fertilization

Boston,

I often have patients who come to me from other clinics after having failed IVF multiple times. I also have patients of my own who need to do IVF multiple times due to implantation failure and we jump through whatever hoops we need to to get them pregnant.

Sometimes patients think they have a luteal phase defect. First of all, despite the fact that a patient may have had a luteal phase defect in the past, the use of progesterone after egg retrieval is to treat for possible luteal phase defect. Therefore, you cannot have a luteal phase defect with your IVF cycles, and this is NOT the reason for the implantation failure. Something else must be going on. The quality of the embryos can be part of the problem but I have had terrible looking eggs implant into patients and they end up pregnant. Genetic abnormalities within the embryo may the culprit and PGD or pre implantation genetic diagnosis can be used to select out for this, although it is not currently recommended by many specialists due to the fact that the embryo may be damaged resulting in a failed cycle.

Implantation failure is a difficult problem because we are not able to distinguish all the processes required for implantation, and there are not tests to help. The only current test available, b-Integrins, don’t help because the treatment is to use more progesterone. I would do that any way.

My approach to patients with implantation failure is to add the following medications:

1. Aspirin 81 mg per day beginning at the start of the cycle.

2. Heparin 2000 units twice per day beginning at the start of the cycle.

3. Medrol 16 mg daily until transfer then 8 mg from that point until positive pregnancy, then stop.

4. Increase progesterone to 50 mg injection plus Endometrin 100 mg twice per day vaginally. The injections starts on the day of the retrieval and the suppositories start the day after the transfer.

This regimen covers most immune responses that might prevent implantation, as well as, any micro-clots that form at the site of implantation. It is used mainly in patients that have recurrent miscarriages, but has proved useful in IVF as well. You might want to suggest this to your doctors. This regimen is unproven and controversial, however. Another suggestion would be to transfer at day # 3 instead of going to blastocyst. On the third day, embryos generally are between six to eight cells.

Blastocyst culturing means letting the embryos go to blastocyst, usually five days in the incubators. We have the ability to keep the embryos two additional days in a culturing material before implantation in the uterus. During this additional culture period, the embryos continue to grow to become “blastocysts”. Blastocyst culturing is not perfected and I still believe that the uterus is a much better culture media and incubator that the lab. Other disadvantages include the fact that some patients, especially older patients, may have no embryos develop to blastocyst and thus lose the opportunity for a transfer. Another reason is that the number of embryos for freezing and the survival of embryos after thawing will decline, potentially lowering the overall successful outcome of a future single stimulation/egg retrieval treatment cycle.

Also keep in mind that pregnancy rates are very clinic dependent. There is a wide variety of pregnancy rates between clinic, and the rates can very much be influenced by the laboratory environment, the physician skill doing the transfer and the stimulation and culture protocols. One option might be to try a different clinic. I recently changed my clinic location and our pregnancy rates are much better than before because we were able to build a better facility. Our facility is a stand-alone center with a very high-tech laboratory environment. For instance, we have a large Hepa air circulation unit that utilizes only outside air and not recirculated air from within a multi-story office building. The air within the surgical suite and embryology lab is expelled 24/7 with new air that is super-filtered reentering the environment.

In other words, every detail, from the medication protocol, to the ability of the reproductive specialist to transfer the embryos skillfully all the way to the air quality within the embryology laboratory, all can have a play in whether or not you have implantation success with In Vitro Fertilization.

Source by Edward Ramirez, M.D.

Implantation Failure With In Vitro Fertilization

Boston: What Is the Gestational Surrogacy Process?

Boston,

Most surrogacy procedures these days are gestational surrogacy procedures. In the gestational types, a surrogate carrier will carry a child that was conceived using eggs and sperm from a couple, or using donor eggs and sperm. In vitro fertilization is required to retrieve and fertilize eggs from the female partner. The eggs are then combined with sperm from the male partner to create embryos, and a select number of embryos are transferred to the uterus of the surrigate carrier after a short period.

This differs from what is referred to as traditional surrogacy in which the surrogate-carrier’s own egg is used in the procedure and combined with sperm from the male partner through intrauterine insemination (IUI) or in vitro fertilization (IVF). In this case, the surrogate carrier would be biologically linked to the child, whereas in gestational surrogacy, the surrogate carrier is not biologically linked to the child.

Immediately after giving birth to the child, the surrogate-carrier (SG) releases the child to the parents. Gestational surrogacy is thought to carry less of a risk than the “SG” becoming attached to the child, as she is not biologically linked to the child compared to traditional surrogacy where the surrogate carrier is biologically linked to the child.

To protect the rights of all parties involved, a contract should be drawn up before beginning the process. There are several legal matters that must be determined, as well as financial and medical matters. The couple will pay the baby’s carrier fee that is agreed upon before the procedure is begun. The couple will also pay for preparation, screenings, pregnancy-related expenses, medical expenses, agency fees, delivery fees or the use of donor eggs or donor sperm if applicable. In total, the cost of surrogacy may range from $20,000 to over $100,000 depending on a variety of factors.

To find a surrogate, couples may consult fertility clinics, websites, lawyers or other agencies that help connect surrogate carriers with couples. A surrogate carrier must have children of their own and must be at least 21 years of age. The requirement that they have had children is so that they have shown they are capable of carrying a child to term and it is thought it lessens the chance of the surrogate becoming attached to the child if they have children of their own. Surrogate carriers must undergo a litany of screenings and tests as well to ensure they are fit for the role.

Source by Justin DiMateo

What Is the Gestational Surrogacy Process?

Boston: Losing Weight After Pregnancy - Top 10 Tips To Easily Lose Weight Quickly And Safely

Boston,

During your pregnancy your body has been changing shape dramatically over the past nine months. In most cases your body weight will have reached a higher level than ever before, you may have stretch marks, your pelvic floor muscles will be much weaker, you may notice more cellulite and varicose veins popping up here and there and you will certainly have increased your dress size by at least 2 or 3 sizes? This is all natural and part of your body’s attempts to cope with this major change and growth of your baby in your body. Your body has been equally as well designed to recover from such an event. It will readily strive to return to the fitness, health level and shape you were in before pregnancy.

If you weren’t in the best shape before, don’t worry because of the change in your hormones you can still get in to great shape now.

It isn’t easy to find the time to return to exercise after pregnancy but find it you must. If you don’t do the things I outline in this report you can say goodbye forever to that flat toned stomach. It really is as important as that. Why physiotherapists and personal trainers aren’t employed to work with every new mum is simply a matter of economics. I know one thing if you are conscious about your shape and appearance you are going to need help. Whatever you do, don’t visit your local gym and follow the advice of an under educated under trained instructor. Quite frankly if you’ve not done the research or got the experience you can’t correctly instruct and design routines for postnatal women. Instead ask for the most qualified and experienced instructors, most gyms will have some good staff. Alternatively book a couple of sessions with a qualified personal trainer there are many around these days. Check they hold a reputable qualification.

My golden Personal training motto is this – ‘consistency’. This is true in every area of health and fitness but never more so than in postnatal fitness. What I mean by this is commit yourself to a plan of action and stick to it religiously. Sure its fine to have the odd treat, that’s good and yes there will be times when you are too tired or unwell to take exercise and I am not advocating no pain no gain this certainly is not appropriate at this stage. You will make very rapid progress with relatively little effort if you follow the information in this 10-point postnatal report.

So what is the plan, what do you have to do? Following is listed in a nutshell the action you must take immediately after having your baby, as long as you aren’t experiencing any pain or discomfort by following the advice you should be fine and notice rapid changes. Don’t worry if you are reading this months if not years after giving birth as there are certain exercises you can do which will help you achieve that toned stomach, a good trainer should be able to guide you through this.

One thing I will say is this if you are reading this and hoping there is some magical solution to regaining your shape after child birth then you will be mistaken and very disappointed. To change your shape and appearance takes dedication, persistency and knowledge this is why personal trainers are so successful in sculpting and shaping the physiques of their clients.

Here’s your 10 point postnatal report: -

1. Drink At Least 2 Liters Of Water Each And Every Day. Drinking this amount of water each day ensures that a number of things happen: –

• Nutrients are assisted in their transportation around the body
  


• The digestive system is lubricated


• Correct body temperature is maintained


• Toxins are removed from the body. These are often stored just below the skins surface in the form of cellulite and other fatty tissues.

2. Plan A Walking Route – To get the most out of walking you should design a route around where you live which will take you between 20 and 30 minutes to complete, in surroundings you feel comfortable with. This route should be push chair friendly and performed at a comfortable pace for the first few days and then done progressively faster so that you feel warmer, breathing slightly heavier and your heart rate increases, you should still be capable of holding a conversation. Your route should include some gentle gradients as these challenge the body to a greater degree than walking on the flat. Do this route at least five times a week. You will also have the benefit of getting some fresh air for you and your baby.

3. Reduce The Amount Of Food You Are Eating. Or more specifically the amount of calories you are consuming. During pregnancy there is a real need for extra calories because you need to maintain normal healthy function for yourself and you must provide extra calories for a growing baby. After giving birth however there is not the same demand. That is not to say that you should dramatically cut the amount of food you eat instead this should be a gradual reduction over the course of 7 – 10 days.

4. Don’t Diet. Diets don’t work, they mess with your mind and slow down your metabolism. The biggest mistake most people make when trying to lose weight is to simply try and starve themselves. This kind of strategy has a number of major downfalls. The first main problem is that when you restrict calories in a drastic and uncontrolled manner in order to lose weight the body does shed a small amount of body fat, but not fat alone. Protein found in muscle tissue gets used to fuel daily activity and essential bodily fluids are also lost. The minute you resume eating normally water levels will quickly be restored to normal and body weight will in turn stabilise once more. The muscle tissue lost will not return and this has a number of disastrous effects. The first one being that when a body consists mainly of trained dense muscles it becomes similar to a fat burning furnace in that it needs to keep the muscles well fed and the metabolism speeds up in order to do this. Reducing muscle density through restrictive diets will only lead to a slowing down of the metabolism. Since most people tend to go through periods of weight loss and weight gain the next problem is that when you start gaining weight the weight you gain will be mainly body fat because muscle does not simply create itself it needs a reason to exist and this is where resistance training comes in.

5. Don’t Do Sit Ups. During the first few weeks sit-ups and abdominal crunches are about the worst exercises to do. Why? Well it’s like this, during pregnancy your body produces a hormone called Relaxin. This hormone allows the body to become more flexible it allows greater movement in the spine, allows for more flexibility in the tendons and ligaments and gives the growing baby more room to grow. Taking your stomach muscles as an example, the relaxin allows the growing baby to push through the muscles separating down either side. This separation needs to realigned and doing sit-ups or crunches in effect will promote doming. Doming is a bulge in the abdominal wall caused by pressure pushing the tissue up underneath and through this gap. This actually hinders recovery and increases the separation between the stomach muscles. Correct breathing must be maintained at all times. There is a test called the rec check, which will dictate when the stomach muscles have pulled in tight and are ready to perform other stomach exercises. An experienced trainer should know how to perform this test.

6. Be Careful. Your body is in a delicate state right now remember that Relaxin hormone, it will stay elevated for at least five months, longer if you breast feed for some time. There are some exercises that are usually all right to do but for now you should avoid them. These are basically exercises that stretch the muscles under tension. The danger here is that the muscles will get stretched too far and tear.

7. This Is The Biggy. Not doing these exercises at this stage when your body is primed to recover and retighten presents missing a golden opportunity and usually leaves a woman with loose stomach muscles and a slightly rounded abdomen forever unless professional help and advice is followed. Perform static stomach contractions and pelvic tilt exercises along with pelvic floor strengthening exercises. These are basically exercises where no movement occurs at the spine. As a rule do these whenever your baby sleeps, they only take a couple of minutes and are not physically demanding. That should mean doing these few exercises about four to five times a day. Again some of the better gyms will be able to teach the correct exercises to do or look in the yellow pages for qualified personal trainers you should only need to be shown a couple of times.

8. Don’t Rush. Being impatient and trying to do too much too soon will leave you feeling tired and susceptible to any bugs going. Your muscles will be weak and aerobic system poor and untrained and therefore both will have to be coaxed and nurtured back to full strength over a period of weeks not days.

9. Eat well and prosper. Now is the time to really eat well and make sure you are eating the right amount of nutrients and getting sufficient vitamins and minerals. Choose whole foods, fresh fruit and vegetables and allow yourself the odd comfort food. Once or twice a week give yourself a treat, don’t feel guilty about it, look forward to it and enjoy it. The occasional treat makes no difference whatsoever to your return to shape just as long as the majority of your diet is made up of good wholesome foods.

10. Sleep As Much As Possible. Easy for me to say hard for you to do. Try take naps during the day when your baby sleeps, change your priorities, let the house look a mess or a while, things will get easier as you get the hang of the situation. A really good idea to use if you have someone to help you is every alternate night spend in the same room as your baby and on nights when you are not in the same room, sleep in another part of the house. This is going to mean relying on your partner or parent sleeping in the same room as your baby when you aren’t there but it will ensure that every second night you will have an uninterrupted nights sleep. This strategy will help to recharge your batteries and provide the energy to cope with what lies ahead of you each day.You will also expect to have a poor night on duty and this is therefore a good coping strategy to cope with the stress of lack of sleep. You will really look forward to your nights off.

Well that’s it. I hope you have learned something from this guide. Just to summarize then: –

• Get professional advice or thoroughly research post natal exercises


• Take it slowly


• Believe you will get back in to shape and then go and achieve it


• Don’t do sit ups


• Be consistent


• Don’t diet

To get full details of what to eat, exercise and do to get into great shape after pregnancy go to – http:www.greatshapeafterbaby.com

You will find out this and much, much more –

• The only way to get that flat stomach


• How to lose weight safely and permanently


• What foods you should eat and when to eat them


• How much exercise you need to do, and can you do too much?

Source by Jago Holmes

Losing Weight After Pregnancy - Top 10 Tips To Easily Lose Weight Quickly And Safely

Boston: The Conception of a Baby Girl - How to Make it Happen

Boston,

I often hear from women who are dead set on conceiving a girl.  They want the whole experience of raising a daughter – the pink nursery, the dance or gymnastics classes, and having another female with whom to share the joys of being a woman.  I know that these women would love whatever gift nature gave them, but since it is possible to chose your baby’s gender, I don’t think there’s any harm in giving mother nature a gentle nudge.  So, in the following article, I’ll go over exactly what it takes to ensure a baby girl conception.

Scientific, Clinical Methods Vs Natural, Homemade Methods At Home: If you can afford it, you can go to a gender selection clinic for PGD (preimplantation genetic diagnosis) or embryo screening in a sterile, clinical environment. This will likely most definitely get you a girl as the lab will identify the gender of your embryos and implant only girls.  However, this costs thousands of dollars.  Few people can justify this in today’s economy.  However, if money is not an issue, this is a way to get 100% guaranteed results. The only way that this can go wrong is if the lab messes up or if the implantation doesn’t result in a live birth.

However, if this is out of reach, there are some things that you can do at home to get similar results.  You aren’t able to actually see, determine, or chose the embryo that ends up in your womb, but you can naturally weed out the boy sperm  to ensure that mostly girl sperm are present when conception occurs.  I’ll outline how to do this below.

Getting Rid Of The Boy Sperm That Could Produce A Son When You Want A Daughter: Your husband’s sperm contains X and Y chromosomes.  You contribute only Y to the equation.  If a Y sperm fertilizes an egg, the result is giving birth to a son.  This is obviously not what you want.  What you want is for the X sperm to be the first place winner.  But, these sperm are the slowest of the two.  So, the only sure way to ensure the scenario that you want is to eliminate as many Y’s as you possibly can.  Your perfect scenario is a reproductive tract that has nothing by X’s.  This way, not matter which one wins, you’ll have a girl conception as there is no other possibility.

The bad news is that the Y sperm is fast.  The good news is that it’s weak and short lived.  As nasty as it sounds, you must exploit this weakness as much as you can.  There are three ways to do this.

The Three Ways To Greatly Increase Your Chances Of Conceiving A Girl Baby: The first thing that you can do is find out when you ovulate. This should be one of your first steps.  You need to know this because you want to count back from that day to determine your conception day.  You want to start early because boy sperm can’t live for more than a few days.  So, if you conceive 3-4 days prior to when actual ovulation occurs, you’ve already made a bold step in weeding out a lot of the males.  All but the very strongest will begin to weaken after a few days. (Use a very reliable ovulation predictor so you aren’t guessing.)

But, you will likely still have some boy producing sperm left. So, how do we get rid of the remainder? We give them an acidic environment to weed and struggle through.  This will further weaken the remaining as this is ultimately a hostile (and sometimes deadly) environment.  But how do you give them a high PH? You become more acidic. You can do this through what you eat (and you want to eat acidic foods) and what you avoid (alkaline foods.)  You can also do this through douching, but often vinegar just doesn’t do it as well as you may think.

If you doubt this, you can test my theory by getting PH testing strips. Take your reading and then try a high PH diet and / or douching.  Come back and test again approximately three days later and see how much this has changed.  You can also use this method to pinpoint which method is working best for you and to determine when you are high enough to conceive a female baby.

Finally, the intercourse positions that you use can help too. Shallow penetration will make it harder on the Ys, which is ultimately exactly what you want.

Source by Sandy Dean

The Conception of a Baby Girl - How to Make it Happen

Boston: 4 Steps to Get Pregnant Naturally - Top Tips to Conceive a Child Fast!

Boston,

If you are looking to get pregnant and can’t seem to seal the deal, there are a few things you must do. This article is going to help you become a new mother as long as you follow all of the steps given here. I can guarantee this will be the single most important information you will hear if you want to conceive a child.

First, getting pregnant is about timing. Without the correct timing, everything is not going to go as planned! During ovulation is when a female is the most fertile. If you want to have the highest chances to get pregnant naturally, ovulation is when you should try. Usually, ovulation occurs 14 days before the beginning of your next menstrual cycle. However, sometimes it varies for different women. For this reason, investing in an Ovulation Prediction Kit, Saliva Test, or simply checking your cervical mucus consistency can help you accurately predict when ovulation will occur.

Next, make sure you use missionary position if you want to conceive a child faster. Missionary position brings the sperm as close as possible to the egg by penetrating the deepest. Since the distance to the egg is not very long, every little bit of penetration matters when trying to successfully conceive. Other positions may be more fun, but are not as effective. Missionary position is one of the oldest sex positions and has been used to conceive for quite a while!

Third, women should refrain from having orgasms before the man has ejaculated. This is very important because to get pregnant naturally, the cervical mucus should be a certain consistency with a certain pH level. The released fluids from an orgasm dilute the environment and can cause sperm to die faster or travel less effectively!

Source by Sandra Estergard

4 Steps to Get Pregnant Naturally - Top Tips to Conceive a Child Fast!

Boston: Morning Sickness Treatments That Work

Boston,

It is not unusual for pregnant women to experience nauseous and vomit as a result of hormone spikes, and this is known as morning sickness. You can find only signs of morning sickness within the initial trimester in most cases, but it can seem like eternity for the women going through them. You will be glad to know that you can find a few treatments for morning sickness signs, some of which are listed below.

In case you’re a pregnant woman experiencing morning sickness, you may wish to drink water all during the day. This may possibly be challenging simply because morning sickness occasionally makes you nauseous whenever you drink water. This can not bother you due to the fact you should remain hydrated at all occasions, which folks who aren’t pregnant ought to even be doing. In case you need to steer clear of the nausea, attempt other beverages that may possibly assist you to locate the reduction you crave. You are able to often attempt ginger ale, chilled water with freshly squeezed lemon juice added to it, or you are able to combine every of them and have herbal iced tea that has the lemon juice and also ginger in it. A excellent tip would be to attempt smoothies made with freshly picked fruit and natural yogurt. You ought to attempt to consume as much yogurt as achievable although pregnant since it aids in digestion and it is also excellent for morning sickness signs. But as long as you stay with cold beverages, you will locate which you experience much far better. All of the over alternatives will not only keep your hydration levels up, but they’ll also assist you to experience far better throughout the initial stages of your pregnancy.

Following a diet regime liquid diet plan is one way that you simply could get aid from morning sickness. Your body wants nourishment, but you are able to truly get most of this in liquid form in case you make up your mind to test this. In case you do not own a juicer, you’ll have to purchase one and be specific that it’s able to turn vegetables and fruit into liquids. You are able to obtain protein from yogurt, eggs, nuts and seeds. You do not need to go to extremes with this, and you are able to consist of some solid food in your diet plan, but you might discover that this approach is really a valuable morning sickness treatment. Once you experience morning sickness, you may well discover cold drinks more of a reduction than hot drinks. Although you might be pregnant, in case you drink coffee, you may wish to begin drinking iced tea. In case you do not wish to continue drinking coffee, it may assist to turn half of it into decaf due to the fact caffeine can at times trigger nausea in the course of pregnancy.

In case you’re open to the thought of making use of traditional junk meals as a morning sickness treatment, you may possibly need to open up a bag of salt and vinegar potato chips. This can truly be fairly useful, though you are able to get the exact same effect from other, possibly healthier meals as well. Saltine crackers have usually been a excellent recommendation for morning sickness simply because salty meals are generally extremely excellent for providing reduction. Raw apple cider vinegar can be a treatment that works for tons of ailments and once you drink a modest quantity in a glass of warm water within the morning, this may stop you from getting sick. In case you believe this is beneficial, you may well wish to repeat this a couple instances a day, such as correct prior to you go to bed. So, salt and vinegar are simple but dependable treatments for morning sickness, regardless of whether you consume them as potato chips or in some thing else. When it comes to morning sickness, no two women are alike and some just have mild signs although others experience completely horrible. Most women fall somewhere within the middle. In case you’re going through morning sickness, give the over strategies a attempt and finally get the reduction you’ve been craving.

Source by Ethan Sims

Morning Sickness Treatments That Work

Boston: The Right Parental Care During Pregnancy

Boston,

Only a healthy mother can deliver a healthy baby. So, parental care and preparation are necessary at the beginning itself. Having nutritious food and health exercise alone will not help a mother to deliver a healthy child. It needs overall care in each minute element that a mother comes across her regular life. Once you know that you are going to have a baby, it is essential that you give your baby a healthy start. Pregnancy is an extremely amazing time for you as well as your partner and future child. As an expectant mother, you must know what is happening to you and the baby growing within you.

Time of changes

Even though in the initial stages you might not notice any major transitions taking place in yourself, you would be able to see the budding evidences of the changes going on inside your body slowly. Most Believe it or not, it would be totally miraculous yet strange for you to wake up every morning to discover that you see a body that is different from what you had yesterday. It is quite normal to experience some common discomforts while you are pregnant. Nausea, dizziness, vomiting, bloated body, fatigue, tiredness, body aches, frequent urination and many other problems are common during this time. All these should be given due care during the effective parental care.

Give care on emotional changes

You would also undergo emotional and physical changes during pregnancy. Maintaining a cool and calm mindset is necessary to keep your baby healthy. The time demands more relaxation techniques to free your body from unnecessary commotions. Try to practice any of your favourite pastimes during pregnancy period. If you come across extra mental pressure and shock, try to get rid of it at the earliest with the help of your better half. Reading is a good habit that any woman can leisurely enjoy during her pregnancy days. Watching comedy movies also can gift you more relaxation.

Consult your doctor in time

You can keep a track of your kid’s development by going through various tests. The best way is to visit your gynecologist regularly. These parental care visits are extremely essential for the health of your would be baby and you. A health care provider would also guide you about the things that you must avoid during your nine months of conception. Activities like drinking and smoking would hurt your child. Same is the case with certain medicines. A good doctor would advise you to eat a healthy diet and drink plenty of fluids. Prenatal vitamins also play an essential role in the health of your unborn child.

Source by Dr. Tina Wilson

The Right Parental Care During Pregnancy

Boston: How to Determine Your Most Fertile Days to Get Pregnant

Boston,

Before you even start to worry about why you’re not getting pregnant from your first month of trying or wonder if you are infertile make sure you know which your most fertile days to get pregnant are. Most women make the mistake of not calculating their fertile periods of the month, decreasing this way their chances of conceiving.

There are multiple ways to determine which the most fertile days to get pregnant are, but here are the most effective ones that you can even combine for better results:

1. If you have regular periods then you can use the simplest method of all, the calendar method. If your average length cycle is of 28 days then you ovulate around day 14 of the cycle, meaning this day is the most fertile one to get pregnant. If the length is 32 days, then you ovulate around day 18 of the cycle.

2. If you really want to get pregnant then you can’t rely just on the calendar method. Buy from a drug store a set of ovulation tests that measure the level of hormones in your urine and determine if you are at ovulation or not. Using the method described above from day 12 of your cycle take a test each morning until it comes out positive. This means you are ovulating and you are fertile

3. Another way to determine the most fertile days to get pregnant is by observing the changes in the mucus coming from your cervix. As the ovulation moment approaches it gets whiter and whiter until the egg is eliminated (in case it’s not fertilized). This is a very good method of also getting to know your body better, which is very important when you are trying to get pregnant.

4. A method that is commonly used, but it’s not very effective, is measuring each morning your basal temperature using a special thermometer. The moment the temperature rises with a degree or so means the egg has been released and you are fertile. The results aren’t always accurate, especially if you just had a cold or fever.

Now, these are the best ways to determine your most fertile days to get pregnant but here is a little secret than can improve by 50% your chances of conceiving: start having sex with two days before ovulation because the sperm cells live inside a woman’s body up to 5-6 days, while the egg cell stays alive only 24 hours. This means the chances of getting pregnant are higher if the sperm is already in your uterus the moment you ovulate and the egg is released.

Source by Alexandra Ciobanu

How to Determine Your Most Fertile Days to Get Pregnant

Boston: Trimedisyn - A High-End Prenatal Vitamin

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What is Trimedisyn?

Trimedisyn is proof that prenatal vitamins are not created equal. The world of prenatal vitamins is evolving, your Flinstone vitamin no longer cuts it, in fact it may be doing you and your baby more harm than you know. The importance of prenatal nutrition and supplementation is being stressed now more than ever before. The preterm birth rate in the United States has increased 36% in the last 35 years. Low birth weight babies are 40 times more likely to die during their first months of life. The ones that do survive are 2-3 times more likely to suffer from lifelong handicaps and disabilities. A quality prenatal vitamin like Trimedisyn can help prevent preterm labor, birth defects, toxemia, and other pregnancy related complications as well as improve the quality of your pregnancy and the life of your unborn baby.

Trimedisyn Ingredients

Essential Vitamins and Minerals

• Vitamin A (5000iu)


• Vitamin C (240mg)


• Vitamin D3 (400iu)


• Vitamin E (100iu)


• Vitamin B1 (3.4mg)


• Vitamin B2 (4mg)


• Vitamin B3 (40mg)


• Vitamin B6 (20mg)


• Folic Acid (800mcg)


• Vitamin B12 (18mcg)


• Biotin (400mcg)


• Pantothenic Acid (20mg)


• Calcium (1300mg)


• Iron (27mg)


• Iodine (150mcg)


• Magnesium (450 mg)


• Zinc L-Optizinc (15mg)


• Selenium (200mcg)


• Copper (2mg)


• Manganese (2mg)


• Chromium ChromeMate (200mcg)


• Potassium(10mg)


• CoQ10 (200mg)


• Marinol DHA Powder (50mg)


• Ginger Root 10:1 (250mg)


• Inositol (25mg)


• Choline (25mg)

Probiotic Blend 1 Billion cfu

• L.Casi


• L.Plantatrum


• L.Salivarius


• L.Acidophillus


• L.Rhamnosus


• S.Thermophilus


• B.Bifidum


• B.Infantis


• B.Longum


• B.Breve

Trimedisyn Benefits

Trimedisyn has a long list of benefits. Let’s start with CoQ10, Co-Enzyme-Q10 has the ability to reduce the risk of Preeclampsia (or toxemia) by 10%. If you aren’t familiar with preeclampsia occurs when your blood pressure rises to the hypertensive range and amount of protein in the urine becomes too high, symptoms include swollen hands and feet. Preeclampsia is the leading cause of premature delivery and maternal and fetal death and illness. Approximately 76,000 die every year from preeclampsia. Ingredients like vitamin D will also greatly reduce the occurrence of toxemia. Very few prenatal vitamins contain CoQ10, make sure you choose a prenatal vitamin with an adequate amount of this enzyme.

Trimedisyn also contains an impress Probiotic Blend, most prenatal vitamins with a probiotic blend contain a very small amount of them, you will find most prenatal vitamins average about 25 million cfu’s, Trimedisyn has 40 times the amount in their 1 Billion cfu blend. Most people associate probiotics with a healthy digestive system, that is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the benefits of these healthy bacterium. Probiotics are proven to reduce your baby’s risk of obesity later in life and it may also reduce the risk of gestational diabetes by 20%. Women who take probiotics tend to gain a normal amount of weight and have less belly fat, making it easier to regain your pre-pregnancy figure. L.Ramnosys has shown to reduce the incidence of childhood eczema by 50% among high-risk children. It may take months or even years to see these positive effects of probiotics, some you may notice immediately are improved digestive tract (IBS, diarrhea, constipation, upset stomach), fewer morning sickness symptoms (nausea and vomiting), stronger immune system. Probiotics are key to a healthy pregnancy and could greatly improve your health and your child’s health as well.

DHA is another ingredient that is only found in a select few prenatal vitamins. If the FDA were to regulate prenatal vitamins, I believe DHA would be one of those ingredients that would be required. DHA is critical for neural and retinal development. Babies with high levels of DHA have higher scores on neural and visual tests. DHA has been shown to increase motor skills and cognitive development. A prenatal vitamin with DHA is the best way to get DHA since it is highly advised that pregnant women abstain from fish during their pregnancy. Fish with the highest level of DHA also have high levels of Mercury, so make sure your prenatal vitamin contains at least 50 mg of DHA.

Other ingredients in Trimedisyn also play an important role in the health of you and your baby. Ingredients like Choline have brain-boosting qualities. Inositol and folic acid help reduce the risk of birth neural tube defects like spina bifida and anencephaly. Trimedisyn has 150% of the RDA of Iron in the form of Iron Ferrochel, which will not cause any additional nausea. Iron is critical for you and your baby, if you do not get the proper amount of iron you may become anemic. Iron, along with Selenium, may also help reduce the risk of asthma and eczema in early childhood. Expectant mothers will be thrilled to know that Trimedisyn may also help relieve and alleviate morning sickness symptoms like vomiting and nausea with the combination of Ginger, Vitamin B6 and the probiotic blend. These are just a few of the benefits of a high-end prenatal vitamin like Trimedisyn.

Your standard over-the-counter and even prescription strength prenatal vitamins are insignificant when compared to the strength of Trimedisyn. Don’t risk your health and the health of your baby. Ensure that the both you have a healthy, happy and bright future by getting proper prenatal care, eating a nutrient-rich diet and by taking a high-end prenatal vitamin like Trimedisyn.

Source by Eloise F

Trimedisyn - A High-End Prenatal Vitamin

Boston: Lisa Olson"s Pregnancy Miracle - 3 Considerations When Looking at Pregnancy Miracle

Boston,

In this world of fast food, on demand TV, online instant bill pay and a pill that will take care of just about anything that ails you, does Lisa Olson’s Pregnancy Miracle stand up to the hype? Are you going to be truly happy with the information in this book and will the methods perform to keep pace with your life that runs at break neck speed?

I am going to go over some of the highlights of Pregnancy Miracle that may or may not appeal to you including: Lisa Olson’s 5 prong approach and why it is different from many others; The 3 months of counseling that you will receive and why this should be so important to you and how effective these methods actually are.

Effectiveness – The overall effectiveness of the methods in Pregnancy Miracle were successful 100% of the time when Lisa Olson first tested them. Of course, she tested them on herself and became pregnant twice after 14 years of trying… and at the age of 43 when most doctors would consider a woman “high risk”… and when most women would have given up.

Lisa Olson’s initial testing of her methods that eventually became the book “Pregnancy Miracle” was on a group of 35 women aged 28 to 47 that were suffering from various issues that were keeping them from becoming pregnant including some suffering from what is vaguely referred to as “unexplained infertility” by modern medicine. Her results on her test group found that about 80% of her group of 35 participants became pregnant within three months… some sooner.

5 Prong Approach – The methods in Lisa Olson’s Pregnancy Miracle are not simply a dietary regimen for you to follow or a list of foods for you to avoid. The “method” is actually a five pronged approach focused upon helping to correct the underlying issues that have kept you from becoming pregnant so far. It incorporates Traditional Chinese Medicine in a holistic way that has been used and proven extremely effective for centuries leading back through history.

The shear amount of information in this 240 page book should be enough to tell you that Lisa Olson didn’t skimp on sharing all of her knowledge and years of extensive research with you. This is no pamphlet or condensed version of a book on how to get pregnant. This is the accumulation of some methods that are almost a lost science these days… methods that have been pushed aside by modern medicine. But are they effective? You bet they are. In fact, many of these same methods are beginning to be accepted once again and used, in part, by infertility clinics and specialists just within the last year or so.

So, if you’re looking for a “simple” way to get pregnant easily this might not be for you. This is not a “pop a pill” cure for infertility. This is over 240 pages of information that will help you to become pregnant by actually fixing the underlying issues holistically. Is it effective? Yes. Is it powerful? Yes. Is it quick? In many cases the answer is yes, as you read above. But will it require you to do some things and make some changes? Yes.

3 Months of Counseling – Along with the helpful advice, tips and guidance in Lisa Olson’s Pregnancy Miracle you will receive 3 months of counseling from the author herself. This means that if you have any questions, concerns or need any additional specific guidance related to your particular set of circumstances you will have access to Lisa Olson herself.

If you want to know what kind of success rate these methods have shown for couples with your particular problem you can find out directly from the one person who would know for sure. This should help you to move forward with a tremendous amount of confidence in knowing exactly what has worked for couples in your exact circumstances.

Overall, we have to admit that given the amount of information, the testing and found effectiveness of the methods in Lisa Olson’s Pregnancy Miracle and the authors offer to give her personal one on one support we feel that this should be considered as a likely avenue that you should check out if you are suffering from infertility. Add to this the fact that many of these methods have been used for centuries and you should agree that Lisa Olson is on to something here with her book Pregnancy Miracle.

Source by Cory Jean

Lisa Olson"s Pregnancy Miracle - 3 Considerations When Looking at Pregnancy Miracle

Boston: What Do High Thyroid Levels Mean?

Boston,

Maybe you have heard someone talk about having high thyroid levels, or maybe you have just been told that you have high thyroid levels by your doctor. When you hear something like this, it is easy to become confused as such diagnoses are often misunderstood. But you need to find out what this actually means so that this condition can be treated and controlled.

Having high thyroid levels means that the thyroid gland, which is situated at the bottom of the neck, is over producing the thyroid hormone. This hormone controls the body’s metabolic rate and having levels in the body that are too high means that your body goes into overdrive – you will lose weight, you will feel tired, you might develop a tremor, your hair can thin, you could get heart palpitations and these are just a few of the symptoms!

As you can see having high thyroid levels is no walk in the park. It is a serious and life changing medical condition that can rule your life, unless you are pro active and do something positive about it. My sister was diagnosed with having thyroid levels that were too high and she was unhappy about taking the pills the doctor gave her. I looked for an alternative and found out about “Thyromine” a supplement that has ingredients all of which work together to regulate the thyroid gland. By the end of the first month of taking “Thyromine” my sister found that she was no longer losing weight and she had started to sleep better at night. By the end of the second month her appetite had returned to normal and she had put on 3lbs! Now 7 months on she looks the picture of health and it is all due to “Thyromine” and she has never looked back.

Source by Carla Harrison

What Do High Thyroid Levels Mean?

Boston: How to Get a Baby Girl

Boston,

I often write articles meant to help couples get the baby gender that they want through natural methods.  I honestly don’t see any reason to spend thousands of dollars for gender selection clinics when you can get fabulous results at home. In the following article, I’ll give you tips and tricks to help you get a girl baby.

Introducing The Very Strong (But Very Slow) X Sperm Chromosomes: It’s important to understand what really determines the gender that you will conceive.  When you have intercourse close to the time that you ovulate, the race is on.  The father-to-be’s sperm contains both X and Y chromosomes, but your baby’s gender is determined by which one will get to and merge with your egg first.  The X and the Y have separate strengths and weaknesses.

The sperm that will get you a son (Y) is the fastest of the two. If all things are equal, this would be a huge factor.  But luckily, these Y’s are also very weak.  They can not live for nearly as long as the X sperm can and any little thing will weaken them quickly.  On the other hand, the sperm that will get you a girl (X) are slow.  But don’t worry because they’re also very hardy.  They live for much longer and can shake off a hostile environment much more easily.

How To Time It Right To Get A Girl Baby: So, we’ve established that the boy sperm are weak.  Now, we have to use this to our advantage.  These guys can’t live for very long, so we time our conception early, to give them time to die off.  This is accomplished by conceiving three days before ovulation.  Now, this can be a bit tricky because unlike conceiving a boy, you’ll need to know when you are going to ovulate – not when you already have. 

So, you’ll need a very accurate ovulation predictor.  You likely won’t get good results if you guess or used old fashioned methods that require you to interpret data that could be just plan wrong.  I’m talking about trying to gauge your cervical mucus (which can change for various reasons) or charting your temperature (which can rise or fall for reasons not related to ovulation.)  I much prefer testing your saliva or your urine with ovulation predictors.  I like the saliva because you can reuse them and I’ve had good success with them.  

Conceiving Using The Positions That Favor Getting A Girl Baby: Remembering that the boy sperm will likely die off or weaken during a long trip, you’ll want to use sexual positions that get you shallow penetration. This will obviously make the trip longer.  Some good positions that will achieve this is the tradition missionary position, female on top using control, or spooning.  Any position will work as long as you are conscious of what you are trying to achieve, but the ones I mentioned are among the easiest to use to achieve this.

Acidity Is Your Friend: I know it sounds bad or mean every time I tell you to use variables to encourage the boy sperm to die off, but if you’re trying to conceive a daughter, this is exactly what you want.  Another way to do this is by creating a highly acidic vaginal environment that has a high PH reading.  Y sperm will wither quickly in a high PH.  So obviously, it makes sense to take full advantage of this.

The easiest way to start is to first test how high your PH already is.  You can get strips at the health food store that will test this (using your saliva.)  Then, you can begin to raise your reading in a couple of different ways.  First, you can douche.  Now, I know this may seem old fashioned or every unsavory.  But, I’m not talking about your mom’s old vinegar and water douching.  Modern technology has given us better options and you can now customize your douche recipe to correspond with your reading.

Another way to raise your PH is by going on a diet that is very high in acidic foods and will avoid alkaline foods altogether.  This sounds less than desirable, I know.  But you aren’t limiting how much you can eat, just what types of foods you can eat. There are list that can take the guess work out of this. And, you only have to do this until you get in the “girl zone.”  Plus, if you want faster results, you can combine the douching and the food methods which will often cut the time this process takes in half.

Source by Sandy Dean

How to Get a Baby Girl