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12 Dream Vacation Ideas For A Perfect Babymoon
Once you get to know you’re pregnant, there’s no turning back as your life is about to change forever. When you get married, the honeymoon is considered a time when you get to know your spouse and cement the relationship. However, honeymoons also have another role to play which is transitioning mechanism. This is because the single life that you once knew is long gone once you tie the knot and a honeymoon ensures a smooth change. Now, what if we applied this concept to when you get pregnant? You’ve found yourself planning a babymoon!
What is a Babymoon?
Couples around the world are taking babymoon holidays as raising a child, while enriching, is also time-consuming. As the baby will be keeping both you and your partner busy, it may be a while before you get to take your next vacation. This has led to the concept of a ‘babymoon’, which is a vacation before your baby is born.
How to Plan a Perfect Babymoon?
Babymooning isn’t as easy as the honeymoon because of pregnancy symptoms, general safety and reduced mobility. This means you need to have a checklist for off-limit options such as travel factors that could put you at risk. You would also need to take into consideration health requirements to monitor the pregnancy. Below is a list of a few babymoon ideas that you could use to help prepare for a babymoon experience.
Avoid Trekking: A trek may seem like an exciting prospect but could put excessive stress on your body. What would make it worse is that many trekking routes are in remote areas which would make medical assistance difficult.
Find the Nearest Hospital: Just because you’re pregnant doesn’t mean that you necessarily need to see the doctor. However, knowing the location of a hospital in the area would be helpful as it acts as a safety net in case the trip requires medical intervention. To be on the safe side, you could do a dry run to the hospital once just so that you know that healthcare is within reach.
Minimise Travel Time: This period is nicknamed the second honeymoon as the inconvenient symptoms of pregnancy disappear and mobility is good. It is also a good time to have a babymoon.
Talk to Your Doctor: There may be some unforeseen issues that may crop up during your travels. This is important if you’re carrying twins or come under a high-risk pregnancy.
Watch Your Belly: You’ve to always be careful and make sure that your belly doesn’t receive any kind of trauma. This means that any vacation that involves the risk of you falling down such as adventure activities are to be avoided. Also, avoid wearing your seatbelt directly over your belly. Instead, place it as low as you can near the hip. This helps prevent any pressure being exerted on the belly during a car ride or during turbulence in an aircraft.
How to Choose a Babymoon Location?
There is often a dilemma about which location you should go for while on your babymoon. There are two components to this that can help you decide, preference and travel time. As far as preferences go, it depends on your tastes and likes. Are you a nature lover or do prefer meandering through quaint alleyways? Based on this, you can approve or disapprove a location. Travel time becomes important as researchers say that sitting for extended periods of time may increase the risk of gestational diabetes in pregnant women. However, this doesn’t mean that you remove all thoughts about babymooning at international destinations. While the flight can be long, make sure that you inquire about the pregnancy travel policy for different airlines. Many of the babymoon locations in the country are connected by railways which provides plenty of space for movement.
Amazing Babymoon Destinations in India
Agra
The city of Agra is well connected by road and rail to other parts of the country making travel a hassle-free affair. The Taj Mahal and the ancient city of Fatehpur Sikri are great places to explore primarily because of the architecture and exquisite gardens. For a special romantic experience, you can book a ticket at the Taj Mahal during a full moon night.
Shimla
The erstwhile summer capital of India is dotted with vintage buildings built in the neo-Gothic and Tudorbethan style of architecture. You can travel by road to get a glimpse of the beauty of Himachal. For those that suffer from motions sickness, one can start from Delhi taking the train to Kalka and then proceeding to use the toy trains.
Srinagar
Well connected to the country by air and road, Srinagar is paradise on Earth with its beautiful lakes and gardens. Make sure you get to spend some time at the houseboats in Dal lake to complete the babymoon experience.
Pondicherry
Connected by road and rail, Pondicherry is a 3-hour drive from Chennai. The former colony still retains much of its French cultural charm with cafes and houses with yellow walls. The Auroville Asharam started by Sri Aurobindo is a must visit for an enriching spiritual experience and would help reduce stress and anxiety.
Goa
The smallest state in India, Goa’s Dabolim airport in the southern part of the state. It is also well connected by road and rail with Panaji and Madgaon being the main centres. The state is well known for its beautiful beaches such as Anjuna, Baga and Arambol, all of which provide a relaxing environment. Avoid going for adventure activities such as parasailing and other water sports as you may get injured, which can cause pregnancy complications.
Kumarakom
Located in Kerala, Kumarakom is located about 80 km away from Cochin International Airport. It is accessible by rail (16 km), road and even by boat! Stay in a houseboat which traverses the waters of the picturesque Vembanad Lake. These floating houses are far away from the hustle and bustle of city life and lets you reconnect with your partner in peace.
Guwahati
Located in Assam, Guwahati can be reached by the international airport or by rail. You can witness the majestic Brahmaputra river from here and the Kaziranga National Park is about a 3-hour drive from here. While the resorts are pleasant, avoid going for the hikes and treks as it could put excess stress on the body.
Jaipur
The pink city is well connected by air, road and rail making it one of the top babymoon places in India. This is one of the few moments in life when you deserve to be treated like royalty. Jaipur is the perfect location which allows this to happen with its numerous palace hotels. The ideal time to come would be during winter as summers can get very hot. Avoid the forts as it could involve a lot of walking and may not be advisable during the babymoon.
Nainital
Accessibility is mainly by road and there are numerous Volvos that operate in the area. The popular hill station in Uttarakhand is cradled around the Nainital lake and provides the perfect setting to reinvigorate your relationship.
Amritsar
The holy city of Amritsar is well connected by air, road and rail. The Golden Temple provides an environment for a spiritual journey and is open to people of all faiths. The food at the langar is organic and free from harmful pesticides and additives making it an ideal spot for babymoon vacations.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Located closer to Pattaya beach in Thailand than Chennai, the islands have a topography similar to the former international destination. The islands have one airport called Veer Savarkar International Airport located in Port Blair. The sun-kissed islands and sandy beaches are perfect spots for long conversations and relaxation.
Aamby Valley City
Located in Maharashtra, the planned city can be accessed by road and even has its own airstrip. There are plenty of activities that you can do for your babymoon such as stargazing at night to getting a massage at the spa. Avoid the water sports activities around the lake as it can be physically taxing.
The exact origins of a babymoon aren’t known to anyone. In fact, it is rumoured that the concept was invented by the travel industry just to promote tourism. However, raising a child is no easy feat and it may be a while before you get to spend some quality time with your partner. Additionally, pregnancy is filled with its ups and downs. Rather than sitting at home, why not go and explore the world a little? Travelling to these delightful spots across the country are bound to keep your spirits up and reduce any negative emotions that you may be feeling.
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Effective Tips to Handle Your Highly Sensitive Child
Have you wondered why your child cries more often than other kids her age on minor issues? Well, you have a sensitive little one. Handling a highly sensitive child requires a lot of patience and understanding. So how do you do it? You still haven’t been able to figure it out? Well, here is an article to help you do just that.
What is a Highly Sensitive Child?
A highly sensitive child is born with a sensitive nervous system which reacts quickly to even the smallest of situations which may hardly hold any importance to others. Such a child is quick to react to everything and thinks anything and everything with a lot of depth. They also get easily overwhelmed by seeing others in emotional distress. Such children are either very calm, introvert and fairly easy to raise or are very active, stubborn and very demanding by nature. It is usually seen that all highly sensitive children are hypersensitive to their emotional and physical environment.
Signs of Highly Sensitive Kid
Many parents seeing their child get overwhelmed or distressed easily may often wonder “is my child highly sensitive?” It is usually seen that over sensitive child symptoms are usually visible in an individual from a very young age. Listed below are 12 signs of a highly sensitive child.
1. Full of empathy
HSC are very empathetic towards others and they always place other’s emotional needs before their own. As a result, they usually take in other’s emotional pain which affects their physical, mental and emotional well-being.
2. Overstimulated
HSC are easily stimulated to noise, smell, touch visuals, movement, and taste. So much so that it can affect their lives. For such highly sensitive children, a certain noise or visual may get them distressed or overwhelmed.
3. Always trying to please others
Since they do not want to hurt people, they always go out of their way to help people to please them. This at times turns out to be damaging and harmful to them.
4. Loners
An HSC may seem to be an extrovert, talkative, in love with people but they easily get overstimulated and therefore require some “me-time”. They need some time to be alone to disconnect themselves from the outside world.
5. Heart rules their head
They are so emotional by nature that they are always ruled by their heart rather than their head. They are too empathetic by nature.
6. They dislike all things negative
Such children have an intense dislike for violence or something like a horror movie. They will quite naturally stay away from fights and arguments.
7. A complaint box
A child who is highly sensitive will quite often complain and whine at the slightest of problems like an itchy clothing, seams in her socks or even labels brushing against her skin.
8. Uncomfortable with change
She abhors change. The slightest change in her room, house or surrounding may make her feel uncomfortable.
9. Despises noise
You may often see her getting startled when there is a loud noise. Noisy surroundings are a complete no-no for an HSC.
10. Deep thinker
She may often ask you deep, provoking questions which may amaze adults. They also think a lot and observe a lot around them. This makes them ask a volley of questions which more often than not leaves the adults irritated.
11. Loves animals
She may have a special affinity towards animals. Death of a pet at home may make her depressed for days. Love towards animals may be so intense that seeing anyone being cruel towards an animal may make her angry.
12. Shy by nature
Highly sensitive kids are very shy near complete strangers. This makes them underperform near unknown people. However, after they get to know someone, they start getting friendly with them and may easily open up, although this may take quite a bit of time.
How to Deal with Hypersensitive Child?
Having a highly sensitive kid at home may be difficult at times and frustrating at other times. It may be a challenge for parents to raise HSC. However, it is important that you understand them and accept them as they are. They are highly intelligent beings with a great sense of humour. They are very intuitive and are great observers. They are gifted with empathy for others which make them priceless.
Listed below are some parenting strategies for a highly sensitive child which may help you to deal with your sensitive little one.
1. Allowing her some “alone” time
The most important thing for a parent to do with a highly sensitive kid is to understand her and accept her as she is. An HSC needs some space and time of her own to recharge herself up. For her, it is as important as breathing.
2. Show some empathy
A common question many parents ask is how to help a highly sensitive child? Well, all you need to do is understand and empathize with them. It is important to understand that having an HSC at home means more startles, more emotional flare-ups, more hurts, and more wailings. It is human for parents of such a kid to feel frustrated at times and lose their patience but you need to keep it in check.
3. Acceptance
Never be apologetic to people for her idiosyncrasies. She is born with it and apologizing to people every now and then near her will make her feel that her emotions, empathy, sensitivity or the way she feels or behaves is something which is not right. This may result in bringing her self-esteem down.
4. Making her overcome fears slowly
Making her do something that she detests or fears very slowly can help her to overcome the dislike or fear of the thing or situation. However, this should be done at a gradual pace and not in a hurried manner.
For example, she may detest wearing a cardigan since she feels itchy in it but asking her to wear it for some time and complimenting her in it may make her want to wear it again for a longer time. It must be done in such a subtle manner that it does not feel like a punishment to her.
5. Keeping a pet
HSC love animals. So put their affinity into use and get home a pet for them. Having a pet at home will calm them down and they will also have a companion to play with. However be sure that your child is not allergic to pets.
6. Do not use the usual methods of discipline for an HSC
Using the usual severe methods of punishment like spanking, yelling, etc may only make matters worse for a highly sensitive kid. She may respond the other way round by screaming, crying, and throwing temper tantrums. Therefore, disciplining highly sensitive kids should be done differently.
For example, you can ask your HSC the repercussion of having an ice cream when she has just got out from a bout of cold and cough instead of telling her that she will get spanked if she takes an ice cream.
7. Talking to your child when upset
When you see your child crying, ask her about what has upset her? Coax her a bit by asking questions to help her to answer. After she tells you the reason, you may ask her what you can do to make her feel good again. This too may require you to help her out and you can do so by giving her solutions. However, some children may take some time crying it out before they tell you what is bothering them.
8. Help them to stand up against bullies
Highly sensitive children may cry often or act differently even in normal situations. Therefore they are always at a risk of getting bullied by other children at school. In such a situation, firstly teach your child not to be afraid. If any such situation arises, tell her that she should put up a brave and confident face in front of the bullies and tell the teacher about it. Also, teach her to walk in a crowd instead of walking alone. As a parent, you may also go and have a word with her class teacher and the concerned school authorities about the situation.
9. Do not try to change them
Highly sensitive children cannot help but feel the way they feel. They are born that way. Thus as a parent should accept the way she is, not try and change her. Trying to change an HSC will only prove to be detrimental to her overall growth.
10. Accept and appreciate your HSC for who she is
A highly sensitive kid is endowed with many good qualities that you can be proud of. You will realize that she is more caring, compassionate and empathetic towards people and animals than many kids her age. They are highly intuitive and can read a person well. They are usually very creative and turn out to be great writers/ storytellers, actors, and artists. Therefore, accept her and appreciate her for the person she is.
11. Help your HSC to relax
You can introduce a half an hour of pranayama and yoga session in your child’s everyday routine. In order to encourage her, you too can join her. Even enrolling her in some art class or anything of her interest can help or even go for an evening stroll or a jog together can do wonders in calming and relaxing her.
12. Touch
Giving her a pat to appreciate her or a hug to let her know that you are there for her goes a long way to make her feel loved and secure.
Before you follow any of the above tips, it is important that you know what works best for your child. Things which may work well for your HSC may not have the same impact on some other HSC. Therefore, understanding your child is imperative to help her to grow into a healthy, sensitive individual.
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How to Teach Children to Read Clock and Tell Time
As your child grows up and starts learning small words or begins to recite the alphabet, you may attempt to slowly introduce different concepts of communication and various aspects of the world to him. Teaching kids about a clock and making them understand the concept of time and the different portions of the day is one of the most challenging aspects for anyone. They might be aware of day and night based on the changes in the environment and activities at home, but not fully grasp the very essence of the passage of time.
When To Introduce the Concept of Time to Children?
You might have noticed that children fail to understand how long a particular activity might take or the duration it takes to reach from one place to another. You might all be in a car driving to meet your relatives, the entire journey taking around an hour, and your little one might ask “are we there yet” after just 10 minutes. Kids can inherently start picking up numerous skills and learn a number of activities, but understanding the passage of time is not one of them. Not only can they not read a clock but they don’t understand how time, too, can be rationed into different blocks. As your child grows up and different activities start becoming a part of his life, he will gradually start understanding how time functions in his own life. Right from preparing to school, down to playing video games, each slot of time will make him understand the essence and the need for a clock to be present.
Teaching Kids How to Tell Time
If you end up teaching your child how to read time just like you teach math, science or languages, you are bound to end up with a kid that is even more confused than before. It is best to introduce the building blocks that constitute the formation and tracking of time, and then start putting them together and form their connections.
1. The Counting of Numbers
When your kid is able to count numbers and understand them, you can start off by teaching him to count to 60 uninterrupted. This may take a few attempts until he starts getting it right on each try. Combine that counting when you go shopping or are sorting out newspapers and ask him to keep aside 15 pages or take 23 grapes and so on.
Once the counting to 60 has been established, start teaching him to break it down into portions of 5. This will allow him to visualize the group of numbers that form packets of 5 and reach the number 60 in this regard. Each packet can then be assigned a number, which forms the digits on a clock.
2. Focus On General Durations
Instead of jumping right away into specific times, start by making your child aware of the daily blocks of time that are used in everyday conversations. Beginning with morning and night, you can then expand these to morning, afternoon, evening and night. These can be represented by activities that take place at home, such as brushing teeth in the morning, having lunch in the afternoon, playing in the evening, and sleeping at night. Slowly and steadily, you can break these further into the early morning, late afternoon and so on, and get granular in terms of conveying time.
3. Make Your First Clock
Instead of buying a small analogue clock for your child, engage him in craft exercise that involves making one. All it requires is a small paper plate and a sketch pen. To help your kid, mark out the portions of digits lightly with a pencil and write the digit “1” for him. Let him start filling the other digits accordingly, and complete the circle with “12”. Now, recall the exercise of counting in portions of 5, and ask your kid to draw lines around the plate, in such a manner that the fifth line always ends up on a number. This, too, might take a few attempts before he can divide the portions equally.
4. Use Existing Time References
With the craft clock in hand, stick a long and a short strip on it which can be moved around. Pick your child’s school timetable or refer to the television guide that shows the timings of his favourite cartoons. Pick a show and ask him to read aloud the timing on it. Beginning with full-hour timings, let the minute hand sit on 12 and ask your kid to adjust the hour hand accordingly. Some parents find it useful to refer to a digital clock as well and compare both of them to help their child understand better.
5. Going Down to Minutes and Seconds
Over time, your child will be able to read the full-hour depictions of time as well as the major minute portions of it as well. Now, it is necessary for him to understand the relations between each division between the large numbers and the synchronization of the second hand with the minute hand. Do not delve into a 24-hour clock at this stage, since the entire concept of numbers and minutes will get baffling for him. Let him understand how a single rotation of the second hand, shifts the minute hand by one step, but one rotation of the minute hand shifts the hour hand to the next big number.
As adults, we look at the concept of time and reading clocks as an involuntary act. We barely remember how we ended up learning about time in the first place. But when we start teaching our own kids, the enormity of the concept starts dawning upon us. Using some easy telling the time activities for kids can help you in this regard, and not make the entire journey of understanding clocks and time durations another duty for your little one. Pretty soon, he will be engaged in the household, going around talking about what time it is and whether someone is late or early, making him feel like a grown-up altogether.
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A. If you have missed your periods you can wait for one week more and then do a urine pregnancy test to know about the pregnancy result and consult with your doctor according to the result for medication
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Q. I am having pcod problem.
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Q. I am having pcod problem.
when should I take pregnancy test?
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