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9 Exercises You Should Avoid When Pregnant
A pregnant woman is often advised to refrain from any strenuous activities and one of the first things to come to mind when you think of these activities is exercise. However, as logical as it may seem that exercise during pregnancy is to be skipped, exercising during pregnancy is very safe, provided the right kind of exercises are chosen and done under the guidance of a trained person. High impact exercises that put stress on the abdomen or lower back need to be avoided as it may affect the developing foetus.
Is It Safe to Exercise During Pregnancy?
It is safe to practice light exercises every day during pregnancy. By avoiding rigorous and stressful workouts, you can stay fit and healthy with some simple exercises. Practising light exercises not only gives you stamina and energy but also gives you good sleep, reduces stress and tunes the body for delivery.
When Not to Exercise
Typically, there are some exercises that need to be avoided during the first trimester and some others that are unsuitable for the second and third trimester. It is better to learn the exercises from an expert who understands the impact of each exercise on the various muscles of the body. If you have conditions like diabetes, heart problems, low placenta, weak uterus or bleeding, you must seek medical advice before starting on an exercise regime.
9 Exercises To Avoid During Pregnancy
Your instincts are the best judge in deciding what exercises to avoid during pregnancy. A growing baby bump considerably shifts the centre of gravity and restricts body movement. The following are some activities that you can avoid during pregnancy.
1. High Impact Aerobics
Those exercises that involve heavy jumping, jogging and exertion can be avoided during this period as there are chances of losing balance while doing so.
2. Heavy Weight Lifting
Exercises that involve weight training by lifting weights, cause a pull in the abdomen putting pressure on the uterus. Overhead shoulder presses also put a strain on the lower back.
3. Lying on the Abdomen
Lying on the abdomen and doing exercises can be very harmful to the foetus. After the first trimester, even lying on the back can be a little uncomfortable. Exercises in both these position cause discomfort and can be avoided.
4. Contact Sports
Active sports like volleyball, basketball, horse riding etc., have a high risk of injury. The ligaments and bones tend to be more fragile during pregnancy and are prone to damage.
5. Cycling
Cycling is a very good physical exercise. But during pregnancy, the growing uterus can make it difficult for you to balance the cycle. The chances of tripping and falling are more due to the altered centre of gravity.
6. Crunches
Crunches are great exercises for shaping the area around the abdomen. However, it is especially an exercise to avoid during pregnancy first trimester. The pull in the lower abdominal muscles can cause undue stress to the uterus and the baby.
7. Sauna/Hot Yoga
Exposure to excessive heat is harmful to the developing baby and for this reason hot sauna baths or hot yoga techniques must be avoided during pregnancy.
8. Tough Yoga Asanas
Yoga is very good during pregnancy, and in fact, there are many pre-natal yoga courses that you can take to relax and de-stress themselves. However, there are some yoga postures that require a lot of twisting and bending. If you have practised yoga before getting pregnant, consult the doctor or a trained yoga instructor before continuing with those asanas during pregnancy.
9. Back Bending Exercises
Exercises and yoga postures that involve bending of the back, for example, the sun salutation, must not be done during pregnancy. These postures create an unnecessary pull in the uterus, which can affect the foetus.
Safety Tips for Exercising
While exercising during pregnancy, it is very important for you to understand the changes in your body. Hormonal changes that lead to losing ligaments and bones, increased resting heart rate, along with a sense of imbalance restricts the options available for an exercise routine. Here are some of the exercise don’ts when you are pregnant:
Don't exert yourself to do any exercise. Stop or at least briefly pause when there is a pain in any part of the body, nausea, dizziness, headache or shortness of breath.
Don't do exercises that give any kind of stress on the abdomen or the lower back.
Don't do your exercises without consulting experts.
Don't start exercising without consulting your doctor if there are any pre-existing medical conditions.
Don't exert yourself in the hot sun or in hot water baths. Set the surrounding temperature equal to the body temperature.
Always remember to:
Drink plenty of water to stay hydrated and replenish the loss of fluids.
Practise deep breathing exercises to increase the oxygen uptake, which eventually gives good oxygen supply to the growing foetus.
Exercise Frequency
If the doctor gives a go-ahead for exercise, then you can follow a light exercise regime for about 30 minutes a day for four days a week. However, walking and other physical activities can normally be done as before.
Staying fit and active in the journey to motherhood is very important for any woman. Apart from the regular chores, a few minutes of stretching and exercising can go a long way in preparing the body for a safe and easy delivery. Making an informed choice of exercise ensures that any kind of complication is kept away.
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How to Solve Your Toddler's Color Differentiation Problems
One of the first things that parents teach their toddlers is to identify colours. However, if a child finds it hard to differentiate between different hues, taking a colour blind test for toddler may help in analyzing the underlying problem. Helping the child to overcome this issue is important.
You just can't wait to teach your toddler the different colours and initiate his colouring activities. But, does your tot find it hard to understand colours? Does he colour an orange a red, instead of an orange? Well, chances are that your child is suffering from colour blindness. Don't loose heart. You can help your little one with some tricks.
What is Colour Blindness - The Scientific Explanation
It is a myth that toddlers suffering from colour blindness see the world in monochrome. Monochromatic colour blindness is very rare. Colour blindness actually refers to the inability of a child to differentiate between the various shades of red, green, blue and yellow.
Symptoms of Colour Blindness in Children
Though the main symptom of colour blindness is the inability to distinguish colour, there are some other signs too that could be indicative of this problem.
Wrong use of colours
Inability to distinguish hues of red, blue and green
Sensitivity to high luminescence
Disinterest in colouring activities
Inability to identify colours in low light
Treatment for Colour Blindness in Toddlers
If you feel that your tot is colour blind,an opthalmologist would perform a colour blindness test. But, there is no treatment as of yet. The doctor may recommend tinted glasses or contact lenses to improve the brightness of certain colours.
What to do When Toddler is Unable to Recognise Colours
Since there is no treatment to correct colour blindness issues, you need to help your little one to learn to cope with this problem.
1. Explain the Problem
Once you have had a detailed chat with your ophthalmologist about the problem your child is facing, go ahead and tell your tot about this. This will make it easier for the child to cope up the with the situation.Talk to him about the colours that he might find difficult to identify.
2. Switch to Monochrome
Forego your urge to get your tot interested in colours. Instead, give him activities that can be completed using the normal pencil. This will surely seem easier to your child and help him focus in a better way.
3. Label It
Go ahead and label all your tot's colour pencils and crayons. Of course, you might have to guide him to pick the right colour until he learns to read. This will make it easier for him to complete the colouring activities efficiently.
4. Get the Teachers Privy
It would be wise to let the teachers of your little one know about his inability to differentiate between colours. They would be better equipped to handle the issue when the child is at school and would help in every possible manner.
During child development, colour recognition issues can be safely resolved without any impact on the child's overall growth. The problem arises only when the child has to deal with colours. Read more
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Am I Not a Wife Just Because I am a Mother?
I met my husband 8 years ago. It was my first job and everything was new to me—the place, the people, and the job too. I met him and he was different in ways I never thought someone could be. Every love story actually starts with hatred first, so yes I didn’t like him when I met him. But he made all the efforts to get closer to me. He made me believe that a person could be injured and hurt but think about the love of his life (the day we met with an accident).
Rest is history. We got married and everything was crazy. We were labelled ‘the crazy couple’. The night outs, the drives, being in the bed on weekends. We were loving it all. We travelled together, partied together, which was the only point of marriage I knew.
Last year, we planned for a baby. It was an amazing feeling and I was so excited when I found out that I was pregnant. I googled everything to know how my baby was growing. I went for regular checkups to make sure that everything was right. But then my husband, who was soon going to be a father, told me that he had decided to leave his IT job and that he would start his own business. I loved the idea and supported him while he was setting up his business. There were days and nights when he didn't show up and I didn't say anything because I knew he was busy. But I was pregnant; my hormones were driving me crazy and my husband was driving me crazy by not being around anymore. I hated the feeling but kept smiling through it as I didn't want to seem unsupportive.
Days passed and my beautiful baby arrived. The first 3 months were extremely difficult. I got no sleep, no tasty food, no long drives, and no good clothes. As your body is weak post pregnancy it makes her feel tired by every second. But time passed and my baby was doing great. I was being the best version of myself (at least I tried to be my 200%). But something was missing. We needed to earn more because we had a baby and were busy all the time. Life was all about phone calls, office, baby, parents, but I lost myself.
I had this weird feeling that maybe I was not being a wife because I was a mother. Was I not important to my husband anymore? He was on calls but those calls were never to me. Was he too busy to not even make a call even after 10 straight hours of not being home? I wanted to ask him if he expected me to be awake late at night waiting for you to be home?
I just want my husband to talk to me because I have forgotten how it was like when you used to be close to me. Tell me this is just a passing phase and you will help me get out from. Save me from this horror of not being your loved one anymore.
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एक वादा नाजुक स्पर्श का
माँ बनना एक अनमोल तोहफा है हमारे लिए। हैं न ? एक ऐसा पल जिसे अनुभव करते ही सब दर्द भूल जाते हैं। लेकिन कुछ चिंताएं भी होती हैं कि कैसे और क्या करु। आप में कुछ अभी माँ बनी होंगी या बननेवाली होगीं तो आपके लिए कुछ टिप्स ताकि आप अपने नाजुक शिशु को एक नाजुक एहसास दे सकें।
माँ बनना इतना आसान नहीं होता हर पल हर लम्हा बैचेनी में कटता है, फिर जब पहली बार हम अपने नन्हे से बच्चे को देखते हैं तो पलभर में तो विश्वास ही नहीं होता की माँ बन चुकी हैं हम।पहली बार अपने नन्ही सी जान को गोद में लेते ही जो आँखों में चमक और खुशी के आँसु आते हैं वो बयां नहीं कर सकती।
पर सिर्फ माँ बन जाना काफी नहीं ,उसके बाद हमें माँ का हर फ़र्ज़ अब निभाना हैं अपने बच्चे का खास ख्याल रखना है।वो नाजुक है अभी,हमें वादा करना होगा अपने आप से, एक माँ से, अपने बच्चे को नाजुक स्पर्श देने का ।उसके छोटे छोटे हाँथ, पैर इतने नाजुक होते हैं की उन्हें उठाने में हमें डर लगता है, पर एक माँ सीख़ जाती है अपने बच्चों को किस तरह रखना है।
जब हम अपने बच्चे को अपने गोद में पहली बार लेते हैं तो अपनेआप से वादा करते हैं अच्छी परवरिश, अच्छे संस्कार देने का ।
अब हमें वादा निभाना हैं , उन्हें पालने का जो दूध पिलाने से शुरु होता हैं। जी हाँ, स्तनपान कराने से पहले अपने स्तन को साफ पानी से पोछें फिर दूध पिलायें।मालिश हमेशा दूध पिलाने से पहले करें और हल्के हाथों से करें।नहाने के लिए हमेशा गुनगुना पानी इस्तेमाल करें।नरम साफ कपड़ें ही इस्तेमाल करें।बच्चेकी त्वचा बहुत कोमल होती हैं उसे मुलायम कपड़ें में ही लपेटकर रखें।माँ बनना सुखद हैं पर जिम्मेदारी निभाना एक एहसास जो हमें माँ बनने का एहसास कराता हैं। थोड़ी तकलीफ़ तो होती है पर सुकून भी बहुत मिलता है।
तोहम अपने आप से आज वादा करते हैं माँ बनना हैं तो माँ की हर जिम्मेदारी भी अच्छे से निभाएंगे अपने नाजुक बच्चे को अपना नाजुक स्पर्श देकर ।
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Women - the Marvelous Creation of the World, Which People Tend to Forget
We have this sick mindset that a woman without her husband is a cursed liability. In fact, there is no place for her in her own, original home. We say “That’s your home now.” Why? Your son and daughter both grew up in the same home. Now you say this home is only your guest house. Visit us, but don’t come back. Don’t come back even if you are dying there. Don’t come back even if they beat you. Don’t come back even if they abuse you and us. Don’t come back even if they torture you for dowry. Don’t come back even if they treat you like an unpaid maid. Don’t come back unless you are dead. At least you would come as a married, dead woman. There will still be dignity for us in society. You ask any married woman, and she would tell you how her parents and relatives forced her to “adjust.” They make it sound like her own fault that she is getting no respect in her marriage. They make her feel guilty for asking to be treated like a daughter, not as a maid who also brings home her salary. They tell her that her life will be finished if her husband leaves her.
No. I have seen this. Her husband, who drinks and abuses her, is still given the stature that he can leave her. Leave her? What are you? You took dowry. You take her salary. You abuse her and her parents. Your whole existence is of a shameless beggar. And you, you will leave her? Who gives this power to such people to leave a woman? Our society gives them the power to still act as if they are doing some sort of favour by staying married. It boils my blood when a woman cries her helpless tears that I could leave in a second, but it’s my parent’s "tension" that stops me. I would rather end my life than live here. But it’s for my parent’s sake that I am still adjusting. You know what? Shame on such parents. You cowards, you are burning your girl for your own shallow “reputation” and “honor.” Stand by your daughter. Bring her back home. Save her. She is still your little girl. A divorce won’t make her a lesser woman. But a toxic marriage definitely will make her a lifeless woman. Women are known as the creations of this world but people tend to forget it. We are used to seeing a woman dominate another woman even after knowing about her pain. I request all women to raise their voices for those women who are suffering a lot.
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Tune in This Healthy Diet for Your Baby
Many new mothers question what to offer their babies after six months. So, here's my experience. I began with a combination of cerelac wheat and apple. After some days I switched to rice, which caused constipation. I then switched to harira made of wheat flour (atta) since the stool was hard and painful. I also started feeding my child boiled eggs and upma. When she was eight months old, I made my baby eat ragi harira with cerelac mixture vegetable. To be honest, it was going swimmingly. Then she turned ten months old, and I began giving her simple rice to chew on and some boiled chicken or mutton to eat. She is now one and a half years old, and I am feeding her practically everything: fruits, liquids, khichdi and potato fries. She needs to try various dishes to broaden her palate. When your baby begins to eat solid foods, don't forget to give them milk, as it is essential for developing a baby's bones.
You may like to experiment with new foods by simply combining the proper ingredients. Learn some essential ones to add up. There is a lot of struggle at first, but it appears to be enjoyable and straightforward as you get used to it. Don't be anxious about what to provide every day; some food can last for months. There's nothing wrong with that, but make sure you're giving it correctly in terms of nutrition.
I hope my experience has been of some assistance to you. You are welcome to leave a remark and tell me about your difficulties. Also, the meals you provide for your little one, the nutrition, the routine, and the amount of sleep should be accurate and well within the limit. Sleeping time should also be adhered to, as irregular timings can disrupt the baby's habit. It is necessary to remember all minor details that make a significant difference.
Make a diet chart to make your day more manageable and less stressful. Make a note of the time and the dish on a piece of paper. Use magnets to attach it to the refrigerator. As a result, you won't have to look for it. Simply walk into the kitchen, look over the menu, and get to work.
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13 hours ago
Q. Hlw dr its my 6th month pregnency can i intimate with my partner
Sai Prasanthi R L
Mom of a 10 yr 2 m old boy
12 hours ago
A. Hello dear! If your pregnancy is going on fine without any high risk factors then it’s okay. Still, would advise you to check with your doctor once before going further. Maintain a good personal hygiene routine and a healthy lifestyle
Abhaya Rajput has added a new answer
Expecting Mom due this month
10 hours ago
Q. My breasts feel full and heavy, but there’s no milk when pumping and during feeding baby —what do I do?
Abhaya Rajput
Mom of a 14 yr 4 m old boy
3 hours ago
A. Hello there ma’am please do not worry about it too much. But it is really very difficult to say anything without proper examination. It is advisable to get yourself evaluated by a doctor and follow doctors advise properly. You can also book online doctor’s appointment on FirstCry where the doctor can help you and guide you properly.
Thanks and take care
Dr Disha Patel has added a new answer
Expecting Mom due in 6 months
10 hours ago
Q. can I take medicine pcm n citrazene in pregnancy fir sore throats n fever
Dr Disha Patel
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4 hours ago
A. dear mom.
better to take tab pcm for time being n do take steam inhakation couple of tines a day, follpw good home renedies for cold, taje more rest .
Swati Kar Samanta has added a new answer
Mom of a 9 m old child
3 hours ago
Q. hi everyone good morning,
sorghum can I give to my 10 month baby is it safe or not please revert I waiting for your reply
Swati Kar Samanta
Mom of a 2 m old girl
1 hour ago
A. Yes but first give in very small quantity to judge the reaction of your baby.
Rashmi has added a new answer
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Q. #asktheexperts is it okay that the baby is kicking less than usual?
Rashmi
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1 hour ago
A. Yes it is the what part is that your child is kicking if you feel that there is a movement of your child whether it is a cake or slight movement also you know that your child is doing fine so there is no problem in that if the movement is less it’s completely alright
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Q. #asktheexperts what to do if the baby’s nose is blovked
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A. Nasal blockage is very common, specially in small children because of the narrow nasal cavity. Any kind of saline drops like nasal clear will be helpful in dissolving the stuffy secretions, which can be taken out by vnasal aspirator gently also steam inhalation will be helpful also, try to avoid keeping the child directly under the fan.
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