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6 Ways To Look Slim In a Saree Post-Pregnancy, WITHOUT Actually Losing Weight!
As Indian women, the saree has always been an intrinsic part of our culture and tradition. We wear sarees during Pujas, weddings, traditional occasions, parties…you name it. There is something so very elegant and charming about a saree that it suits every woman irrespective of her body type. However, when it comes to wearing a saree after pregnancy, things tend to become difficult for many of us. After the several kilos of weight we gain during pregnancy, we worry that a saree will make us look plumper and reveal our ‘fatter’ areas such as belly and arms…
Nothing is perhaps as life-changing as giving birth to a baby. It changes everything in us, including our body. The extra belly fat, love handles, and bulkier arms are some of the reasons we often hesitate in sporting a saree after delivery. However, the good news is that it is entirely possible to not only wear a saree after pregnancy but also look ravishing in it! In fact, fashion experts believe that wearing a saree at this time can actually make you look and feel SLIMMER if done the right way!
Check out these simple saree draping tips to look slim after pregnancy. We promise you will love the final effect as it will make you look slimmer without any extra effort!
How to Wear Saree to Look Slim Post Pregnancy
1. Drape Your Saree Like This
After pregnancy and delivery, many of us struggle with a chubby belly or a muffin top. This can make it difficult to wear a saree without bringing the focus to your belly. The best solution is to go for a loose and open drape instead of a pleated pallu. This is one of the most-effective saree draping styles to look slim. An open drape will hide your belly while also making you look comfortable and fashionable!
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Many Indian mothers also use a belly band which is of the same colour as that of the saree. You just need to select a stretchable material of the same colour and fix it with hooks/zip to wrap around your belly. The main purpose of this is to give you extra support both during and after your pregnancy. It is also said to help bring your tummy back in shape with time – worth trying out, right?
2. Choose The Right Kind of Blouse
To look amazing and toned in a saree, it is very important to pick the right kind of blouse. As a thumb rule, you should look at blouses that keep your arms covered – i.e. full-sleeved or quarter-sleeved blouses. This will hide the extra weight in our arms that many of us tend to put on during pregnancy. Plus, these blouses are very much in vogue right now, so you will also be making a fashion statement!
Also, consider wearing blouses with fuller necks or high necks. They will make your torso look more toned. Try and stay away from deep necks at this time, as far as possible.
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3. Wear Sarees With Sleek Borders
Do you like wearing sarees with broad, large borders? It might be a good idea to switch these with sarees that have sleek borders instead. A sleek saree style to look slim works for this reason: after pregnancy, it is natural for our body frame to appear bigger, thanks to the weight we put on to bring our little one into the world. If you wear sarees with broad borders, it will add further volume to your figure.
Sleek, narrow borders make you look fitter and slimmer as they tend to flatter your curves better.
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4. Wear Sarees in These Slimming Fabrics
When trying to look slimmer in a saree, try and pick sarees in fabrics such as chiffon, silk georgette, crepe or satin. These will help accentuate your overall figure as they are flowing and smooth in nature.
Avoid wearing sheer/translucent fabrics as they will bring attention to tummy fat. Also, avoid heavy fabrics like south cotton or south silk. These tend to add volume while draping and will make you look plumper just because of how heavy they are.
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5. Choose These Prints and Designs to Look Slimmer
Did you know that the design or pattern on the saree also plays a role in how slim you look while wearing it? Sarees with newspaper prints, graphic prints and digital prints are known to help women appear slimmer, without actually losing any weight! These prints also help you flaunt your curves better.
If you are wearing embroidered sarees, go for small motifs while avoiding chunky embroidery. You can definitely wear floral sarees to brighten up the summer but avoid big floral prints. Small floral prints and abstract prints will help hide flabby areas and make you look wonderful.
As a rule, it is best to avoid wearing sarees with large prints at this time. Also avoid horizontal lines and patterns in your saree as they tend to concentrate focus on your belly fat.
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6. Choose Darker Colours for Your Saree
Finally, try and dig out the dark-coloured sarees from your wardrobe, for now is the perfect time to flaunt them! It is indeed true that dark colours like black help you look slimmer as they make you ‘disappear’ or blend into the background. Black also helps conceal creases and folds in your body.
If you are not much into black, you can also explore plain/monochrome sarees in reds, purples, bottle green and dark blue.
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That’s it, moms! If you follow these tips while picking and draping a saree, we guarantee you will look slimmer without actually losing any weight. The postpartum period can be really tricky for us women, as we battle with numerous problems along with taking care of our baby. It helps emotionally and mentally to feel beautiful at this time – and nothing quite like a saree to get the elegance on. So, go ahead and sport your favourite sarees; we promise you will be getting compliments by the dozen! :-)
Do you love wearing a saree too? How did you drape it after your delivery to help look slimmer and more toned? Please share your tips in the comments so fellow moms can benefit from your experience! Read more
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Encouraging your Child to Become a Nature Lover
Nature nourishes the body and nurtures the soul. It’s in the folds of nature, a child should learn his first lessons. Yet in these days of play stations and increasing screen time, children are losing touch with the bounties of nature. We share some tips about making your child a nature-loving individual.
Are you worried that your child is spending too much time indoors- surfing channels and playing video games? Would you love to see him go outdoors instead and spend some time soaking in the sunshine or chasing butterflies? Would you like him to know the names of various little birds that fly across the sky? Do you often wistfully dream of pointing to him the stars, moon and the various clouds? Do you wish to see his face light up with joy as he catches a rainbow after the first rains? Most of the children have not witnessed a just born calf prancing joyfully in the green fields; nor are they familiar with the melodious song of the nightingale.
Hence hold your child’s hand today and bond with him under open, inviting skies. As your child embraces nature and begins to witness its many miracles, you would find him turn into a more compassionate, kinder and sensitive individual.
Ways to Encourage Your Child
Here are some ways in which you make your child embrace nature and its glorious ways:
1. Let Your Child Witness The Changes in Nature
Go on a hiking trip with your child to a farm or a sanctuary every season and let him witness how the colors of leaves and branches change with spring, autumn, winter and summer. Put up the pictures in his room or on the refrigerator. Encourage him to make seasonal greeting cards with those pictures to send it across to his friends.
2. Witness The Miracle of Birth
Your child still faithfully carries around the belief that storks deliver babies. How about dispelling this myth a little bit and make him aware of birds and bees? Call your local farmer to know if there are any pregnant cows or goats around. Take your child to the farm and show him the “Mommy” goat. Tell him there’s baby waiting to come out. Take him again after the birth and show him a little kid. This will increase his awareness of biological rhythms and fill his mind with questions.
3. Plant Trees
Bring a young sapling for your child and let him plant it. Let the tree be his pride. Show him how over a period of time, the tree starts developing slender branches, blossoms and fruits.
4. Camping and Star Gazing
A back yard is all that is needed for camping and a spot of star gazing! No expensive trips and elaborate planning is required to take your child into the lap of nature. Camp a night in your backyard and your little one will know how it becomes cold during nights and what it is to be woken by birds. Show him the dew on leaves and the paw prints of chipmunk.
5. Cloud Watching and Weather Foretelling
Nothing is more calming than lying down on the soft grass on a clear day and watch the clouds pass by. You and your child might have loads of fun deciphering various shapes of clouds or you can teach him about high clouds, low clouds, and rain clouds. Before long your child would be able to predict weather just looking at the clouds.
Being a nature-lover is not only invigorating for a soul, but it’s also the need of time today when the living-beings are confronted with the threats of global warming and natural calamities. It’s high time to extend some gratification to the mother nature, if we want our future generations to survive. Read more
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Encourage Your Toddler to Practise New Skills With You
Teaching new things to toddlers can seem hard, but with a bit of help you'll definitely succeed. There are many skills to teach your children too, and a lot of them can be learned through everyday activities. You can play, turn activities into games and just make learning fun!
Teaching new skills to toddlers is no child's play, but it can be easier if you start it at the right time. Toddlers have a natural desire to keep on moving. Parents should take advantage of this and channel their energy in the right direction. By giving a little nudge, you can train your child to learn new skills like kicking a ball or carrying plates to the kitchen.
Activities that Help Toddlers Learn New Skills
Provide opportunities for learning skills to your toddler and urge him to explore and ask questions. Take him around the garden or take a walk to the park where he gets a chance to see new sights and touch new objects.
Teaching new skills to children comes with the proper use of imagination. If your child’s imagination becomes active early, he’ll be able to perform better in life. To stimulate curiosity and creativity, get him a coloring book or a simple activity book that he can use anytime. Help him learn colors and how to match objects based on their color and shape.
How Does Your Toddler Develop New Skills?
Playing and learning come naturally for toddlers. As they grow, their curiosity begins to increase and so does the need to learn new things. There is an endless list of skills to teach tots. Being able to master them is easier when activities are in the form of fun games. Be on the lookout for activities that involve familiarising them with textures and the names of objects. Be specific when speaking to him. Say ‘Hand me the blue cloth’ or ‘Look at that square building’.
Other Ways to Help Toddlers Learn New Skills
Parents obviously play a key role in shaping the skills of their little ones. You need to form plan and think of ways to keep your toddler engaged, so that he’s constantly learning. You can teach him to follow instructions, teach him to be independent, and teach him responsibilities through everyday activities. You can use play too. Toddlers want to keep on doing more and parents can use this to motivate them to continue trying till they master a new skill. This will give them a great sense of achievement.
If you make a habit of doing new things every few days, it will make your toddler active and keep him stimulated. Even at this age, toddlers are capable of establishing patterns that they may carry for the rest of their lives. Take a keen interest in getting the best out of your toddler. Urge him to play alone and with peers, and buy him age-appropriate books to develop an interest in reading and to hone language skills. Be there to play games and perform activities with him. You’ll be surprised at how quickly he grasps new skills. Read more
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Q. Hi, for May 1st they will check AFI fluid... should I need to be on empty bladder for that scan... which is around 37 weeks
Rashmi
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11 hours ago
A. It’s completely normal this kind of an ultrasound is different it is not necessary that your stomach should be full or you should go empty stomach you can have your basic breakfast and all whatever you would want to eat before you go ahead with getting a scan and there is no need to go empty stomach for the scan
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Q. hi everyone..the position of my baby is still in breech position from first trimester till now as I entered in my third trimester position is still breech is it normal..
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I suggest you please consult with your gynecologist and follow their instructions
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A. normal traditional food rich in protein ok. if there is no relief it is better you see your doctor for proper examination particularly physical examination if there is need for doing investigations to find out the problem and treatment ok
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