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Top 7 After Delivery Beauty Tips
Once you deliver your baby, your life changes completely. Post-delivery, hormonal fluctuations, sleepless nights, change in lifestyle and little to no rest—all of this leaves you looking far from a million dollars. And you wonder when will you look like your old self. Worry not! Here are a few lifestyle changes and some beauty tips to help you make look beautiful again.
Seven Post Pregnancy Tips to Help You Look Beautiful
Pregnancy is a huge milestone. Being a mother, you will spend every waking hour catering to the needs of your little one. While this is great, you also need to realise that giving yourself some tender loving care is of utmost importance as well. Your health and well-being directly impact your baby. Looking beautiful makes you feel confident, and this is something every mother needs. Here are a few postpartum beauty tips that you should incorporate into your regime.
1. Start Your Day on a Positive Note
The way you start your morning can greatly impact how you manage the entire day. Make sure you wake up on a positive note. Drink a warm glass of water in the morning instead of your daily dose of caffeine. Drinking water helps in better metabolism, as opposed to coffee, which is a stimulant that will leave you tired in a few hours.
2. Keep Yourself Clean
You’re probably familiar with dirty diapers, gooey food, and maternity clothes that smell of baby creams and sweat. All of this is a part of motherhood, but make sure you keep yourself clean. Have a shower every day, and clean yourself each time you get dirty. This leaves both your body and mind fresh.
3. Get Some Exercise
Make sure you incorporate a good exercise regime into your lifestyle. You could do yoga or mild aerobic exercises that are specifically meant for mothers post pregnancy. Exercising improves blood circulation, tones your body, and improves overall health. Working out releases hormones like cortisol and endorphins, that make you feel good.
4. Scrub Away
Use a good body and face scrub to exfoliate your skin. Dead skin cells must be dealt with if you want a smooth, soft skin. Get a body scrub that is herbal or fruit-based, as opposed to a chemical-based body scrub. Gently scrub your skin with a loofah in circular motions. This enhances blood circulation as well.
5. Eat Healthy Foods
When you eat healthy foods, you look good. It’s as simple as that! Follow a healthy diet rich in fruits and vegetables. Don’t eat foods that are high in fat content, as this can cause breakouts. Eat healthy not just to look good, but to stay fit as well. Motherhood requires you to be strong and physically capable of taking care of your tiny little human. So, eat well!
6. Load Up on Water
Water is a solution to almost all health problems. For its umpteen benefits, water can be easily said as the elixir of life. It keeps you hydrated and helps in moisturising your skin. Drink a good eight to ten glasses of water every day. Water also helps in eliminating toxins from your body. Add a few slices of cucumber or lime into your water if you want to do a detox.
7. A Spa Day Out
Pamper yourself with a full body massage and a spa treatment - you know that if anyone needs it, it is you! All those sleepless nights, constant back pain, and being on your toes round the clock needs to take a back seat. Book an appointment at the local spa, and take a couple of hours off from your mommy duties. A good spa treatment helps soothe your mind, body, and soul.
Tips to Deal with Some Common Post-delivery Skin Problems for Maintaining Your Beauty
Beauty care after delivery is vital, especially if you’re facing skin problems like dull complexion, acne, and dark circles. Here are ways to deal with these issues -
1. Dull Complexion
The pregnancy glow is long gone, leaving behind a dull complexion that makes your skin look lifeless. The first step to getting back your glow is by drinking water. This flushes out the toxins in your body. Then, consume fruits and vegetables that are rich in Vitamins C, D, E, and K. Oranges, tuna, broccoli, almonds, sunflower seeds, and kale are all rich in these vitamins.
2. Under Eye Swelling
Major causes of Under eye swelling is lack of sleep, stress, and fatigue. Apply cucumber or potato slices on your eye for ten to fifteen minutes, and relax. You can even use chilled tea bags for the same purpose as well.
3. Dark circles
Like under eye swelling, dark circles are caused due to lack of sleep and stress. Apply honey or aloe vera gel over your dark circles to get rid of them. Also, make sure that you get your mandatory eight hours of sleep.
4. Acne
Acne after pregnancy is caused due to hormonal changes in your body. Eat a balanced diet and cut down on oily and processed foods. Apply lime juice or tomato juice on the affected area, then wash it with cold water.
5. Pigment spots
Pigment spots on the skin are caused due to unhealthy condition of melanocytes in your skin. These spots can be covered with concealer and foundation, but the best way to treat them is to try and get rid of them completely. You can do this by applying the juice of an orange or lime to the area that has a lot of pigment spots. Make a paste of raw potatoes; this helps as well. You can consult your doctor and ask for an over-the-counter cream or gel to treat these spots if they worsen.
Taking good care of yourself is the first step to feeling beautiful. Giving your child all the attention is not enough, give yourself some attention as well. Motherhood is an overwhelming period, so cut yourself some slack and give your body all the love and care it truly deserves.
Also Read: Postpartum Skin Care Read more
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6 Christmassy Tips When You're Expecting
Christmas and pregnancy may not seem to go hand-in-hand, but this doesn't have to be the case. While pregnancy does limit things a little and you need to be extra cautious, you can still have loads of fun and enjoy what the festival has to offer.
Being pregnant has its own share of concerns like morning sickness, swollen feet and having to take extra care of your diet and nutrition. Along with these, you still have home and work to manage. When the festive season starts, you also want to jump on the bandwagon and enjoy yourself. Learn how to have a ball even when you’re expecting.
How to Celebrate Christmas When You Are Pregnant and Feeling Blah!
1. Take Extra Care with Food
Start with food as no festival is complete without it! Try and avoid milk-based products that aren’t prepared at home. Fast food should never be an option either. If you’re planning a turkey dinner, make sure the meat is washed and cooked well. Add plenty of vegetables and reduce spiciness otherwise symptoms will worsen.
2. Manage Your Morning Sickness
If it’s still early days in your pregnancy and you just can't bear the smell of some food items, consider adding ginger to your diet. Ginger biscuits and ginger tea are a couple of options. Another tip is to eat small portions of food at regular intervals.
3. Get Enough Sleep
Pregnant women during Christmas or any other time need to get sufficient rest. All the excitement and frenzy of the holiday season can force you to stay up too late. There’s no harm in this (if done once in a while) provided you balance your sleep deficit by napping during the day. Remember, less sleep will make you irritable and your baby uncomfortable.
4. Consume Only Non-alcoholic Drinks
Keep away from that Christmas sherry or that glass of wine this season! It’s an important safety measure to take while celebrating Christmas during pregnancy. As tempting as joining everyone for a toast may be, the bundle you’re carrying inside will not like it. You could use the opportunity to titillate your palate with a strawberry and banana smoothie or an organic milkshake instead. Fresh juice is another choice that’s healthy and delicious.
5. Wear Comfy Clothes
Skip the little black (or white) dress this time. Instead, wear something that you’ll be comfortable in. Avoid tight clothing like bodycons and choose flowing dresses, trousers and salwar kameezes instead. You won’t spend your time tugging at your clothes and will be able to enjoy the party.
6. Accept Help Offers
You may be used to doing things yourself but it’s important to know when to draw the line. Since you’re expecting, it’s wise to take up offers of help that come to you. Let others do the heavy lifting and some of the cooking. The more relaxed you are, the more you’ll enjoy the Christmas celebrations.
Approaching pregnancy during Christmas in a positive manner will keep you feeling festive all through the season. Don’t let your pregnancy hamper your merry-making; turn things around in your favour. If you’re far along, you could even make the perfect woman Santa Claus! Revel in all the celebrations and let your child feel your high spirits. Read more
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Baked Potatoes with Cheese
I don’t like potatoes said no one ever!’ Potatoes are versatile and can make any dull meal a delightful one. Play with potatoes with our recipe for baked potatoes with cheese. You could make this a healthy meal by trying different combinations for the filling. Your fussy little one is going to love his veggies!
Serves
Preparation Time
Cooking Time
4 People
10-15 Minutes
1 Hour
Ingredients
4 big potatoes
1 cup sour cream
2 sticks salted butter
Vegetables/Meat of your choice
Salt to taste
2 tbsp oil
Method
Step 1
Wash the potatoes under running water and scrub the skin using a stiff brush.
Step 2
Poke holes around the surface of the potatoes with a fork so the moisture escapes completely.
Step 3
Rub oil and a little salt around the skin of the potatoes and bake them in the oven at 350 deg for 45 min.
Step 4
Remove the potatoes and let them cool for minute.
Step 5
Gently cut open the potato on one side lengthwise. Hold the cut side on top and gently squeeze open the lower half of the potato.
Step 6
Now, for the filling, toss the vegetables in a little oil and mix them with sour cream and salt.
Step 7
If you want to include meat, cook the meat and chop them into little pieces and mix along with the rest of the ingredients for the filling.
Step 8
Using a spoon, fill the opening of the potatoes with the cream-veggies-meat mixture and bake for a further 15 min.
Step 9
Serve hot.
Nutritional Information
Calories
860 K cal
Proteins
9.9 g
Fats
65.5 g
Carbohydrates
63.6 g
Cholesterol
148 mg
Sodium
976 mg
Potassium
1688 mg
*For frying, add approximately 10 grams of fat per serving at 9 Kcal/gm of fat. Read more
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Talk in English # A common phrase used by the moms!!
English medium is the implied tag for a child to be polished in a language that is merely spoken around one-fourth of the time he spends on the whole day. The struggle for this language starts when the child enters the first step with his tiny foot wherein he barely pronounces his name well.
India is allocated into several states and so has multiple regional languages. Every language has its beauty and proved to be the best for its state. But there is one language that is meant to be prevalent to make Indians identical in language...That's called " Hindi."
Then, it comes the king of language called " English"....as it is globally accepted as a mode of communication. Not only that now it's a sign of you being well educated and talented. How could one be a "gold medalist in Maths" if he won't even know the spelling of an encyclopedia? But how does an encyclopedia is connected with mathematics????? Strange na!!
Let's come to the point where I have started. So the little citizen who has landed in the temple of learning is rotating around languages. Before their mind could narrate their imagination got the stab of being conscious about "Talk in English".
Ohh!! Your child is still not communicating in English as he is 5 now ??? You need to play only with kids who talk good English." These became the topics of gossips and worrisome for some mommies.
In most of the homes, one prefers regional language as a part of grooming and conveying. It's a matter of dignity when surfing in your native where grandparents and relatives proudly see a" gem " in your child being brought up in culturally sound because he learned mother tongue even after living in neighborhood state. If the child speaks Hindi or English means " Parents need tips for grooming."
Now, as you reside in the neighborhood state, then your syllabus is added with one more language that is the resident state language. It starts at the age of 6. So apart from the heavily loaded bags of multiple subjects, they need to carry now multiple tongues to switch over languages depending on the person and the place.
So on an average" minimum of 4 languages," a child has to memorize if foreign languages are not taken into account as elective learning. I agree, " as per research a child has the potential to learn multiple languages in his early childhood years."
But then it shouldn't be a part of the scoring syllabus and not under pressure. Scoring on languages and learning multiple scripts in the early stage and switching the tongue should not restrict the power of expression and focus on important content.
Whatever said and done, " even if you turned out to be a magician in your native scripts or Hindi you are going to be trapped in the vicious circle of " Talk in English." In Schools, at parties, in a social circle, if the child is flowing with English then it catches everyone's eyes and parents become the source of inspiration and certainly, would be flooded with the list of questions. Foreign returned got a cherry on the cake as the child tends to speak American accent and turned out to be a "cute alien "landed from a different planet.
Let's not be conscious about " Talk in English" and give our kids free wings to fly around learnings. They would surely come out with flying colors. It's only a language, which is used as a mode of communication and not as a power of expression. Let them express and love to learn !!!!!!
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Care like the Creator - Our babies need to be cared for just like the Creator cares for all beings.
The Creator or God as many refer Him, cares for each one of us very, very patiently. He knows the ways, he can do activities much faster than we can. For Him everything can be done simply in the snap of a finger. Still, He chooses to wait patiently. He waits for us to learn things at our own pace. Similarly, our baby needs to learn things on their own at their own pace. We as adults can do things swiftly, be it feeding them, playing with them or simply holding an object. We just want to get things done.. like a to do list - tick, tick, tick. We should understand that if we do things for them -
1) They would never derive satisfaction from it;
2) They would learn dependency on us and
3) They would give up too easily.
As a result in the long run, they may turn out to be a dissatisfied and depressed person. After all, what is important? Our to do list now or our child's character development in the long run? Life is a bed of roses but with thorns as a by product. We need to teach them to remove the thorns on their own at a very early age. Early age impressions last a lifetime. So how do we do it? Simply let them observe you. You need not instruct them anything unless necessary. Simply let them observe and then take the back seat, change the role. Now you become the observer. They learn superfast and you will be amazed to see how your little one has grasped each and every move of yours according to his capacity. Research has shown that a child until the age of 7 is taking in maximum simply by observing. That is all he does. Only observes and learns. He doesn't learn by instruction but by observations.
Yes, there are times when we need to take an action because something may be dangerous for our child. We need to say no, we need to stop him from eating wrong or going on a dangerous path. So we need to go against our child's will and take certain measures. No need for any guilt because that's what the Creator does. He too brings certain situations in our life that we do not like but it's simply so that we can grow to be a better person. But this strict behaviour can be limited to only dangerous times that is not very often. And you will know what to do, when. Trust yourself!
So the gist is - Simply take lessons from the Creator to care for your baby!! Baby care is a gift given by God to all mothers. All we need to do is to tune in to that inner voice. It's an inner intuition that tells us what is right for our child :) Read more
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Trying To Conceive
8 hours ago
Q. hi have one question
LT 10x18mm and RT 18x20mm and ET 6.5
what it mean??? and should I start intercourse
Dr Laxmi Chavan-Sawant
Ayurvedic Gynaecologist
7 hours ago
A. since you are right follicle is 18 mm yes of course you can start with your intercourse for conception as in 1 to 2 days
their maybe rupture of the follicle by which your sperm should be present there for conception
Dr Ghouse has added a new answer
Guardian of 0 children
7 hours ago
Q. #asktheexpert
why baby vomit
Dr Ghouse
Paediatrician
7 hours ago
A. for babies less than 6 months may not be a problem. small babies will be having lot of gas because of various reasons it is advisable to do burping of the baby immediately after feeding please give colimex DF drops to the baby they are safe
Dr Laxmi Chavan-Sawant has added a new answer
Expecting Mom due in 1 month
7 hours ago
Q. i am 35 weeks 3 days pregnant... my ultrasound report shows that "fl and hl are shorter compared to bpd"... is this anything to worry
Dr Laxmi Chavan-Sawant
Ayurvedic Gynaecologist
2 hours ago
A. You should have proper consultation with your treating doctor , as some examination or investigations may be needful, so that proper medications can be given And the treatment can be done very properly.
needs proper follow-up for this
Dr Laxmi Chavan-Sawant has added a new answer
Guardian of 0 children
6 hours ago
Q. I am 9 week pregnant and I have runny nose very badly can I use cetirizine tablet?
Dr Laxmi Chavan-Sawant
Ayurvedic Gynaecologist
2 hours ago
A. use nasal drops , that acts faster .
You should have proper consultation with your treating doctor , as some examination or investigations may be needful, so that proper medications can be given And the treatment can be done very properly.
Dr Laxmi Chavan-Sawant has added a new answer
Trying To Conceive
6 hours ago
Q. hi,
my LT 10x18mm and RT 18x20mm and ET 6.5 , what if I intercourse after 2 days, can I do intercourse in ovulation day can become a pregent .
on ovulation day if we intercourse can become a pregent..pls advice..
Dr Laxmi Chavan-Sawant
Ayurvedic Gynaecologist
2 hours ago
A. since the follicle size is 18 to 20 mm your ovulation may occur within 24 hours also so if you have intercourse with in that time it will be more effective to get conceived
your endometrial growth is not good enough for conception but still you can just try
Sai Prasanthi R L has added a new answer
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6 hours ago
Q. Hlw dr its my 6th month pregnency can i intimate with my partner
Sai Prasanthi R L
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5 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
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