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You Can Conceive, Despite Having PCOS: My Journey
Suffering from PCOS (Poly-cystic Ovarian Syndrome) doesn't mean that you are infertile and can't conceive naturally. I remember the days when I was continuously gaining weight due to PCOS. Irregular periods, unwanted facial hair, comments from the people around me, and moreover, my own desire to conceive, were a nightmare.
Here, I will be sharing my story with you and I hope this will encourage you to live a healthy life. Just a few months after I got married, I missed my period. Thinking I was pregnant, I went to gynaecologist. To my surprise, I wasn't pregnant, but instead, was diagnosed with PCOS. The gynaecologist put me on oral contraceptives to treat PCOS, and I blindly started treatment without asking any questions. The treatment was on for two years, after which I was given hormonal treatment for conception, which just messed up my body even more and made me gain a lot of weight. We were very tensed and went to same gynaecologist again, and she prescribed some blood tests and a sonography to be conducted. When we got the reports, we were informed that I was infertile and couldn't get pregnant naturally. The doctor suggested IUI, and after three consecutive failures, we stopped the treatment.
Days passed, and I tried to lose weight, which i couldn't due to lack of awareness. Then, once during a tea break at office, my colleague suggested that I consult an endocrinologist that she recommended. I went to the doctor and began treatment.
I followed the below practices, along with taking the medicines given by the endocrinologist:
Daily morning walk (7000 to 10000 steps)
Drink ginger water in morning, as it helps to improve metabolism, which leads to faster weight loss
No dairy products
No sugar and artificial sweeteners
No carbs after 7 p.m
With the doctor's excellent treatment and my will power, I started losing weight, my periods were regularised, and I conceived naturally. Now, I am a happy, confident mommy of a 3 month old, and am writing this to encourage you.
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5 Fun Activities To Help Strengthen Pouring Skills In Preschoolers
As pouring speeds up the development of fine motor skills in children, it is important to develop this skill in children through various activities.
Gripping a handle of a small water container and pouring water helps promote fine motor control in toddlers. In fact, pouring is a life skill that offers your preschooler numerous benefits. Benefits of honing pouring skills include:
Increased concentration :
Improved eye-hand coordination
Develops self-regulation
Enhances critical thinking skills
Promotes spatial awareness
Builds independence
We know that engaging your child in pouring as an activity is important, but it's a tough task keeping his attention. Introducing your little one to some fun pouring activities can be a brilliant way to hone his pouring skills while keeping his attention. Here, we list a few pouring activities for your preschoolers. Read on to learn all about it.
1. Colour The Water Activity
Kids love to play with colors. So, teach your preschooler a fun pouring activity to color plain water by mixing colored water with it. You need three big transparent water containers, three transparent glasses, and three food colors. Partially, fill three transparent water containers with plain, colourless water. Fill other three water glasses with colored water such that only one food color is added to each glass. For instance, first glass contains red water made by adding red food color. Likewise fill second and third glasses with blue and green water respectively. Now ask your preschooler to color the plain water red by pouring the red water from the glass to one of the transparent containers containing colorless water. Similarly, colour other two clear glasses of water blue and green.
Your toddler will find this water coloring activity fun and he will take a great interest in pouring colored water into colorless water. It helps improve eye-hand coordination, fine motor skills and critical thinking. ||
2. Make Water Levels Equal
Fill two equal-sized transparent water glasses with varying amounts of water, such that three-fourth of the first glass and one-fourth of the second glass is filled with water. Now, ask your toddler to pour water from one glass to another to make the levels of water equal in both the glasses. This will promote spatial awareness, eye-hand coordination, and fine motor skills of your toddler.
3. Water The Plants in Flower Pots
One of the simplest activities to strengthen your preschooler’s pouring skills is watering the plants. Instruct your toddler to water the plants planted in the flower pots by using a water-filled container without spilling the water out of the flower pots. Your growing little one will find this activity interesting. Watering the plants will help build concentration to avoid spillage and promotes spatial awareness, self-regulation to stop pouring to avoid water overflow from the flower pots.
4. Serve The Tea
Gift your preschooler a small-sized teapot and a few tea cups. Fill the teapot with water and tell your toddler to pour the water from the narrow opening of the teapot into the tea cups and serve it to you and his friends. This activity will improve your preschooler's pouring and courtesy skills.
5. Fill A Vase with Narrow Opening
Provide your preschooler with a wide-mouthed vessel filled with water and an empty vase having a narrow opening. Ask your toddler to fill the narrow-mouthed vase by pouring the water from the wide-mouthed vessel without spilling the water outside the vase. This activity will promote self-regulation, enhance eye-hand coordination and concentration, and improve spatial awareness.
Did you know any other enjoyable activities to improve your preschooler’s pouring skills? Share your ideas with other moms by leaving a comment below. Read more
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Khakra Chat
The Khakra chaat is a delicacy and is ideal for your evening cravings. It is a wholesome meal in itself and satisfies all the dietary requirements of a person. The paneer, green peas provide protein and iron respectively and the fiber rich khakra coupled along makes for a tasty-healthy snack.
Serves
Preparation Time
Cooking Time
2 People
5-10 Minutes
00 Minutes
Ingredients
khakhras (broken to 5 - 6 pieces)
1/4 cup onion (chopped)
1 tsp garlic (grated)
2 tomatoes (blanched and pureed)
1/4 cup paneer (low fat)
1/4 cup green peas (boiled)
1/4 cup tomatoes (chopped)
1 green chilli (chopped)
1 tsp chilli powder
1 tsp oil
1 tbsp coriander (chopped)
Method
Step 1
Heat the oil in a pan, add onion and garlic and saute till the onion turns translucent.
Step 2
Add the pureed tomatoes and cook till the oil separates.
Step 3
Add the paneer, green peas, tomato, green chilli, chilli powder and salt and saute for 2-3 minutes.
Step 4
Remove from the fire and keep aside.
Step 5
Place the khakhra pieces on a serving plate.
Step 6
Top with the topping and garnish with the chopped coriander. Serve immediately.
Nutritional Information
Calories
157 K cal
Proteins
5 g
Fat
4 g
Carbohydrates
24 g
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11 Super Ideas to make Valentine's Day Special for your Husband
Plan a special valentine's day for your loving husband in this season of love. Make him feel all the love and devotion, that you always wanted to share with him, but may be you were unable to do so, due to your busy life schedule. Here are some inexpensive and simple ways to celebrate valentine's day without compromising your time and schedule.
The concept of valentine’s day originated long time back. The day gets its name from the legend, St.Valentine. The history of this day is still a mystery, and it contains the traces of both the Christian and ancient Roman tradition. According to certain beliefs, it is celebrated as a tribute to St.Valentine, who was ordered to put to death by the Roman Emperor, for breaking the law and secretly performing the marriages of young soldiers. Another belief states that Valentine, who was imprisoned, sent a card for the first time to his lover from the prison, which stated ‘from your valentine’.
Why you should Celebrate Valentine’s Day
Whatever may be the history behind this day, February 14th is now celebrated as the day of love and romance. Therefore, valentine’s day would be the best time to make your man realize, how much you adore him. Even though you may be a mother, busy with your little kids around, you would still have that romantic drive in you, which you would like to share with your better half. Revive that romance in your life, on this special day, by presenting him something that would surprise him.
We have put forth an array of easy, but extraordinary ideas, to make your valentine’s day special.
Romantic Valentine’s Day Ideas for him
Keep surprise gifts or valentine’s day cards, at different locations at your home. For eg: In the bathroom where he keeps his toothbrush, next to his watch, in his wardrobe or wallet, in his car, between his files, in his laptop carrier and so on. These surprises would really bring a smile on his face.
Write a message on the bathroom mirror with your lipstick, or stick a note on the bedroom door with some beautiful lines of a romantic poem. You can write the poem yourself. However, if you are not a poet at heart, all hail the Internet! Write a few lines in sparkle ink and you are all set.
Dedicate him a romantic song on his favourite FM radio station.
Send him a love letter by post - do you remember? - the very old inland letter, but anonymously. Keep sending it for 3-4 days until on valentine’s day, when you can disclose your name. (If he discusses the letter with you before revealing your name, react with a fuss, and create a hue and cry about it. Pretend that you are annoyed about the fact that some female is writing a letter to your husband).
Prepare his favourite items and take it to his office, during his lunch time. Be sure to click a photo to frame the moment of expression on his face, as he sees you at the office all of a sudden.
Make a love note and hide it in his shoes, or write all that you want on a long role of tissue paper and hide it inside his shoes. His foot wouldn’t fit into the shoes, and surprisingly he would get the tissue papers with all your love messages.
Make him feel like a ‘King’ for a day. Do all that he wants, prepare his favourite breakfast, take him out for lunch, dress yourself up as beautifully as you can.
The above idea can be made more fun by preparing a coupon booklet of the tasks that he would like you to do for him. Ask him to use one coupon at a time. Yes, of course, you need to ask what all he would like you to do, during your conversations, a week before you plan to give him the coupons. So that you get the time to arrange the requisites for the tasks in case they are elaborate.
Plan a candlelight dinner at home. Prepare his favourite dishes, make him a drink, with romantic background music.
One of the best things to surprise your husband is to do a thing that you hate to do, whereas he loves doing it. For eg. Watching a basketball match and pretending as if you are enjoying it.
Surprise him with a romantic night. Decorate your bedroom with red heart shaped balloons, spread some red rose petals on your bed. Place some flowers and a wine bottle next to your bed and dress up in a gorgeous evening gown. Can you imagine anything more romantic for your husband than this.
Bring back that spark in your life, on this valentine’s day, using some of these creative valentine ideas and make it special for him. And don’t forget to share the reactions of your husband with us. Happy Valentine’s Day! Read more
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How Meditation Helped Me Heal After Delivery
Delivering a baby is one of the toughest tasks for a woman. Being a mother is not easy. I was excited to have a baby and had planned a lot. Day after day, I planned for other things. There were a lot of dos and don'ts that I had to follow for the little one who was going to come into this world. I had lots of ideas for my baby. Days passed and finally came the day I had been waiting for. I was admitted to the hospital and after some time, I heard my baby crying. I had a smile on my face and I fainted.
Taking care of a baby seemed easy when I used to look at other moms taking care of their babies. But when it came to taking care of my baby, I was a little puzzled. I was unable to adjust to the new scenario. It was a drastic change to be surrounded by a baby always and the changes that my body was undergoing were not pleasant at all. I experienced a lot of pain.
The only thing left in front of me was darkness. I used to cry and feel lonely, but my family supported me and gave me the courage to work on myself and heal. Meditation helped me a lot too! It proved to be the best tricks to come out of depression and be the best mom.
This was the time when I was not attracted to my baby at all, and today is the time I can't stay away even for a second, from my baby. All women go through this phase. When you become a mother for the first time, you have a lot of 'ifs' and 'buts' moment, but not everyone has people to support them. But I assure that meditation is the best remedy for everything. It can heal you and make you happy. It can help you accept the change and be comfortable with your baby.
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Expecting Mom due in 5 months
15 hours ago
Q. I got faint line all my pregnancy test and I missed my periods for 10 days but USG and TVs test confirm there is no pregnancy is there any chance that it is very early stage that's why it is not visible???? or TVs test is the last thing that can tell that really there is no pregnancy
Read moreRashmi
Mom of a 9 yr 7 m old girl
15 hours ago
A. I think it would be advisable for you to get an ultrasound done with your doctor that’s going to give you a clarity because if there is a pregnancy it would be visible at least at least that sack is visible if it’s a regular pregnancy so it would be advisable to have a test with your doctor
Dr. Minal Acharya has added a new answer
Guardian of 0 children
11 hours ago
Q. mere twins baby girl and boyhai one month 8 days old kya mai ghutti de sakte hun ya gripe water de sakte hun aur kab se start kar sakte hun
Dr. Minal Acharya
Nutritionist
11 hours ago
A. dear Mum, you should not give any sort of gripe water or ghutti to your baby. these are unhealthy and dangerous and can cause infection to your baby. so, these should be completely avoided.
Dr Vandan H Kumar has added a new answer
Guardian of 0 children
10 hours ago
Q. I am currently 32 week pregnant.I recently had growth scan.mu baby is in cephalic presentation. Does this change as I approach my due date. Also my EDD is July 25 and EDC is July 2. what is my expected due date. Also what is EDC?
Dr Vandan H Kumar
Paediatrician
10 hours ago
A. edc is expected date of delivery only.
that is 40 weeks
You will get more information for your query with your family doctor. You may meet your dr in person for proper guidance .
It is important to remain in contact with your doctor.
Swati Kar Samanta has added a new answer
Expecting Mom due in 7 months
10 hours ago
Q. why I am getting dizziness in my pregnancy
I am going with 3rd month of my pregnancy it's a very strong dizziness I feel at times means every day .....no other symptoms of pregnancy .Please help with elaboration .All okay means isn't part of this journey.
Read moreSwati Kar Samanta
Mom of a 2 m old girl
10 mins ago
A. Do consult your doctor as soon as you can. It's important to find the real reason because without that, proper medication is not possible.
Dr Priyanka Kalra has added a new answer
Guardian of 0 children
10 hours ago
Q. I am currently 32 week pregnant and had growth scan recently.My baby is in cephalic presentation.does this change after 36 week or does this remain the same?
Dr Priyanka Kalra
Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
2 hours ago
A. usually fixed. better to show to specialist always as they get the correct diagnosis. try to avoid self and extra medication that will only complicate this and create more damage to the child
Rashmi has added a new answer
Guardian of 0 children
53 mins ago
Q. it's my 5 month n I still didn't went for check up yet not even once is it okay if I go now or?
Rashmi
Mom of a 9 yr 7 m old girl
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A. You should have started going from the very beginning itself once you get to know you’re pregnant but since you haven’t reached that now if you’re pregnancy has been healthy last five months please get it checked with your doctor also if you need to start with any supplements or diet the doctor would advise you after a ultrasound so please visit your gynaecologist
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