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How To Make Your Baby's Hair Grow during Pregnancy
Both you and your baby need a lot of nutrients in the journey of these 9 months. Concentrate more on vitamins and mineral-rich diet that will encourage healthy growth of hair and also improve overall growth in your baby while you are still pregnant.
When Does a Foetus' Hair Start Growing?
Your tiny bundle will start growing hair when you are almost in the 14th-15th week of your pregnancy in two cycles – shedding and then regrowing. All the follicles have appeared, and no new follicle will grow after the birth of the baby.
Foods for Baby Hair Growth during Pregnancy
The hormone estrogen is primarily responsible for hair growth in the fetus. Some foods that make fetus hair grow are:
1. Eggs
They are a rich source of protein required for hair growth.
2. Fish
They provide omega 3 and 6 fatty acids to the body which improves hair growth.
3. Yellow Orange Fruits
Rich in Vitamin A they are also known to boost hair growth.
4. Nuts
These crunchy snacks are rich in fibre, minerals and protein which is good for hair growth.
FAQ’S
1. Do Babies Grow Hair in the Womb And Eat It?
Babies grow Lanugo, a soft hair covering that keeps them warm. It sheds off as the pregnancy advances, and if ingested by the baby, it comes out in the form of her first poop.
2. Does Heartburn Mean My Baby Has Hair?
Interestingly fetal hair growth and heartburn go hand in hand. The hormone estrogen which is responsible for the growth of hair also relaxes the muscle in the thorax region causing heartburn.
Though hair growth in babies depends on their genes, as a mother, you can eat healthy, nutritious food that will help improve your unborn baby’s hair growth. You should also try to remain stress-free during your pregnancy as your stress can affect your baby’s growth adversely.
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Sex after Delivery - How Long To Wait?
Pregnancy is a stage where the body undergoes a lot of changes. It takes some time to recover once the baby has been delivered. Until the body has fully recovered from the pregnancy blues, the mother needs to take special care of herself. It should be ensured that any activity that involves stress and takes a lot of energy on the part of the mother should only be performed after consultation with the doctor. One such activity is sex after pregnancy.
When Is It Safe to Resume Sex after Delivery?
It is important to understand that the body is fragile post-delivery and needs extreme care. It is not safe to have intercourse until at least two weeks have passed after delivery as the chances of uterine infection or haemorrhage is very high during this period. Further, it is recommended to wait for at least four weeks before you can have sex. This time frame increases to six months if you have fresh stitches as a result of delivery by C-section or due to any other surgery.
Consult your doctor on when to have sex after baby for the most accurate timeframe.
When Will You Feel Like Having Sex after Baby?
The first four to six weeks after pregnancy is a time period where your body is recovering from the stress and exhaustion of pregnancy and delivery. It is normal to have low libido levels during this period. Moreover, post-delivery your priority is to nurse the baby and take good care of their health. Sex is bound to take a back-seat.
Further, the natural lubrication of vagina is low after delivery due to the decrease in oestrogen levels, and the dryness may continue as long as you are breastfeeding the baby.
The urge to have sex may not return instantly. Most partners start having sex after 2 months of delivery.
Why You Don’t Feel Like Having Sex after Giving Birth?
There can be multiple reasons for this. To start with, you may be too stressed and low on energy to think of having sex.
The responsibility of managing the baby in the first few weeks might leave no room for having sex. The feeling of being less attractive and unsettled in your changing body can reduce your confidence and discourage you from getting intimate with your partner.
Baby blues or postpartum depression can also keep you away from sex after giving birth.
What to Do If Your Partner Wants Sex Before You Do?
It might only be normal for your partner to want sex after childbirth. It might be their way of showing love and affection towards you. However, it is important for you to take stock of your condition and talk to your partner about how you are coping with the post-pregnancy effects. Explain to him why your body is not yet ready for sex.
It is necessary to have clear communication and mutual understanding in order to keep the love in your relationship alive.
What Can You Do to Boost your Sex Drive?
Firstly, it is important to allow your body to recover before resuming your sex life. Partners who look to have sex post childbirth should do it with each other’s consensus.
Try and identify a time in the day where the two of you are least worn out and have the energy to engage each other. The first few sessions should be gentle, and you should opt for a position where the woman is in control of the depth of penetration and its pace.
Having a healthy diet with plenty of fluids and taking good rest along with mild physical exercises will help your body to recover fast.
Postpartum Sex Tips
Following are tips to enhance your sex appetite post-delivery:
Have a talk with your partner on when to restart your sex routine.
Start gently. Make it as comfortable as you can so that your inhibitions about pain from sex evaporate.
Eat healthily. Have plenty of fluids and perform light physical exercises to bring your body back into shape.
It is a good idea to allow your parents to do babysitting so that you get some free time with your partner.
Match the timing of sex with the sleeping time of your baby. This will ensure that you are not disturbed.
Foreplay will help you arouse completely. Use lubricant to ensure that the dryness of vagina does not become a hindrance.
Before having sex, explore your vagina gently with your fingers. This will help you identify the pleasure and pain points beforehand.
Avoid full penetration in the beginning. Explore positions that limit penetration.
Talk to your partner about how you would like to go about the whole thing, especially the first time. Inform him of how you would like to be touched.
Consult your doctor and friends who have gone through this stage. They will be able to give you good advice.
What about Birth Control Methods?
Having unprotected sex immediately after childbirth can increase the chances of getting pregnant multifold. To start off with, do not forget to use condoms every time you have sex.
There are contraceptive pills available that can reduce the risk of pregnancy without affecting your hormones and breastfeeding cycles. It is however recommended to avoid any such contraceptives unless taken after consultation and understanding the possible side effects from the same.
You can also consider going for the medium to long-term birth control measures such as use of intrauterine devices.
There are numerous other birth control measure available. It is best to consult your doctor and opt for the most suitable and least risky method of birth control.
Problems You Need to Look Out For
1. Your Partner Wants Sex, But You Do Not.
Even after a substantial period of time has passed, you might not be keen on having sex, while your partner is eager and waiting.
Try These Tips:
Talk to your partner about your challenges to have sex. Tell him that you will soon be ready for it. You can try cuddling, kissing or playing together with your baby to keep the romance alive.
2. It’s Difficult For You To Wait For Six Weeks And You Want To Go At It Immediately.
In some cases, the craving for post delivery sex might make it impossible for you to wait for four to six weeks, especially if you have had too less of it during pregnancy.
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Consult with your doctor on when is it safe to have intercourse after pregnancy. It should be ok if the post-partum bleeding has stopped.
3. Breasts Are Leaky And Hurt Due To Being Tender
Breasts at the time of nursing can become sore and heavy and may not assist in orgasms during sex. Moreover, you might want to let them be after having your baby at it all day.
Try These Tips:
Nursing your baby right before sex can make it less full and solve the problem of leaking. You can also try wearing a nursing bra or tank top during sex if you feel comfortable in them.
4. It Is Painful To Have Sex
Soreness due to childbirth and vaginal dryness due to hormonal changes and breastfeeding can make post pregnancy sex painful.
Try These Tips:
Give the soreness some time to heal, especially if it arising from C-section surgery. Having a water-based lubricant handy is a good idea.
5. You Feel Conscious About Your Changed Body
It might take some time before your body can return to its pre-pregnancy shape and the stretch marks may further make you feel conscious about yourself and make you hesitant to have sex with your partner.
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Your beautiful baby is a result of all that your body has gone through. It is a natural process, and the body will regain its shape in a matter of time. Your partner is as proud of you as you yourself are. There is no need to be ashamed or conscious of your body.
The body needs dedicated attention and nourishment after delivery, and so does the baby. Sex and intimacy may fall out as priorities from the life of couples for various reasons. However, it is important to keep the faith in each other alive and slowly start building up intimacy as things begin to settle.
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How to Resolve Selective Listening in Toddlers
Two years is the age when children involuntarily learn turning down parents’ calls and instructions, and prioritizing tasks according to their choice. But does that mean selective hearing in toddlers is worrisome? No, it's a routine growth aspect. You just need to employ a few tricks to make yourself heard!
Have you noticed lately that your 25-month-old toddler isn’t heeding instructions? Don’t panic; this signals the advancement of a new and very human trait– selective hearing. Your child is not alone in this either. Many toddlers become selective listeners at this age. Instead of scolding her for her ‘defiance’ and stubborn refusal to answer your calls, learn how to make your baby pay attention.
Can Toddlers Have Selective Hearing and Why?
Selective listening occurs when a toddler is selective to what he chooses to hear or listen to. Child psychology experts say that 25-month-old toddlers can’t be expected to be good listeners because their attention span is limited. They cannot focus on an activity for more than 3 to 5 minutes. So, it’s perfectly alright if you’re compelled to repeat instructions, physically guide, and even use gestural and verbal clues to make yourself heard.
Reasons that Prompt Toddlers to Listen Selectively
Knowing what selective listening is is just part of the solution. The next step is determining why your toddler chooses to listen only to certain things you say. Here are some of the possible reasons for your child’s selective hearing:
Do you, at times, get too informative when communicating with your 25-month-old? Check this for getting your toddler to listen. Kids can’t grasp an overload of information at once.
At this age, your toddler can’t follow anything more than concise, crisp instructions. Complex directions will only confuse her and cause her to tune out what you say. If need be, include physical gestures when communicating something to her.
The hands and eyes are pivotal in establishing effective and meaningful interactions. Using subtle touches to earn her attention and establishing eye contact when needed are a few things you can do to get her to pay attention.
How to Get Your Toddler to Listen
Kids quickly learn anything that is fun. The next time you want your child to be at the dining table, why not organise a race to it? She’ll be more inclined to get there!
By 25 months, your toddler should be listening to and identifying different sounds like tweeting birds and flowing water. A listening exercise for toddlers that you can try is to take her to a park and prompt her to listen to the birds chirping, a dog barking, or the wind whistling through the trees.
Proper communication can also happen through whispering. Use whispers as often as you can, or whenever you feel your kid isn’t paying attention. You’ll soon notice that she’ll stop what she’s doing and appear more attentive to your whispering.
Choosing what to listen to is not due to any selective hearing disorder. However, if you do feel that your child could have a problem with her hearing, do consult a doctor. In the meantime, apply the suggestions above and get your toddler to learn to pay attention better.
If you’ve discovered interesting exercises to deal with selective hearing in 25-month-old tots, share them with us! Read more
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Key Developmental Stages in Art for Pre-schoolers
Do you remember your artwork being displayed by your proud parents or an art teacher at school? If you do, you may have realised that art takes time to develop and that no two children develop the same way. Babies begin to learn art through scribbling at a tender age and it only blossoms when they are old enough to understand what they are doing. Let's look at some art development milestones in little ones.
When it comes to child development, psychologists talk about various developmental stages in a child’s life regarding all aspects of a child’s growth. Similarly, when it comes to art there are some key developmental stages too. These development milestones are crossed by each child in a particular sequential order, however the pace of each child differs as it is with any development milestone.
Let’s look at the 5 stages defined by researchers and psychologists:
1. Scribbling Stage
At first when a child is as young as 2 years of age, he is still curious about everything. He is exploring the world around him and registering images, shapes and colours. So when you give him paper and pencil, he will most likely move it in all directions, an act that is known popularly as scribbling. It may seem meaningless to the parent, but it is in fact a very important and necessary milestone for each child to go through. At first, your child may start with random scribbling, then move on to making some designs which have a specific pattern and then eventually try and write alphabets.
2. Pre-Schematic Stage
In this stage (from 3 years of age), a child starts drawing some specific shapes, symbols or objects. Their shapes and symbols may change continuously and erratically. Your child may also turn the paper multiple times in order to complete a shape. For e.g., in order to draw a square your child may turn the paper four times. By drawing these shapes the child is developing a schema for objects and things. By schema we mean he is building a visual image of all things and objects around him
3. Schematic Stage
By 6 years of age your child has formed a schema, by which we mean your child knows what a square, circle, house, etc. looks like and has also a visual image of it stored in his mind. In this stage the child uses a lot of base lines, straight lines to make a tree, house, etc. so the images look very stiff. As the child grows he learns to make multiple base lines and other complexities, to make an image look just as it ought to be. With handholding and correct guidance, any child can learn how to make creative images by this stage.
4. Transitional Stage
By now the schemas have developed and with correct guidance and your child’s creative skills have also developed. Your child will now attempt to produce his own art work. However, we may still find some traces of schematic stage, depending on the pace at which your child is learning art and his inclination towards it. For.eg. your child may draw a garden and children playing in the garden. However, the human images may look at little stiff.
5. Stage of Realism
In general, a child reaches this stage by 12 years of age. In the child’s drawings figures have a more natural representation and images start to look more real and natural in their appearance. At this stage the child becomes self-conscious about producing artistic and realistic art work.
Although there are defined stages for development, like each flower blossoms in its own unique way, each child blossoms in their own unique way and as parents it is our responsibility to give them that space and time for their development and growth. Read more
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Pottie Training-A habit which needs to be inclucate as soon as possible .
1 2 3 ahhhh,yes i am trying to make my baby pop.This is the most imp habit he should inculcate as soon as possible.
As far as i remember he was 8 month when i started working on this habit.Every half an hour i used to take him to the washroom and on the way to washroom i used to explain him this is where you come if you want to do su su or pottie,all you have to do is tell mumma washroom or papa washroom.
Eeshan is a Cecarian baby,my back use to Ache every time i sit to make him pee,but i didn't gave up.I remember in nights also before sleeping i use to ask him to pee and as soon as he used to wake up i used to rush him to washroom like a habit ,first he used to get irritated but now its a habit,he is 21 month old now whenever want to poop he rushed to washroom n say mummaa pottu or grab my hand n takes me towards washroom.There are tines when he is busy playing and suddenly he leave ex everything and give me that look,it for me to understand that we need to rush to the washroom.
He sits cammy finish his business and smile,giving me a sign mumma i am done.
He takes good 10-15 min and i patiently let him have his time.
And in this journey of motherhood i have realise happy poop gives happy baby.
So ladies don't stress yourself,motherhood is a journey ,you will learn as it comes.
Its not rocket science,you are learning as a mother then so does they as babies,give them time and you take yours.
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Q. #asktheexperts What should I buy for my baby however I'm just expecting in 2 month
Dr Ghouse
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A. you can get information regarding essentials of the new ones watch any YouTube channel. 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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Expecting Mom due in 5 months
12 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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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 moreAbhaya Rajput
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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 gynaecologist and follow doctors advise properly. You can also book online doctor’s appointment on FirstCry where the doctor can guide you properly.
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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?
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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
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