Your Baby’s Growth in the First Trimester
Your first trimester covers the first three months, which are weeks 1–12. Here are some key pointers for your first trimester: Start of the First Trimester: Your first trimester starts…
Skin Problems During Pregnancy
Many skin problems can happen to your skin during pregnancy. Skin problems as like, your skin may be itchy sometimes. Some women's skin colour gets a bit darker, and freckles…
Piles (Haemorrhoids) in Pregnancy
Haemorrhoids, which are generally known as 'piles', are enlarged and swollen veins in and around the lower rectum and anus. Piles can be itchy and painful, and they can sometimes…
Gestational Diabetes
What Is Gestational Diabetes? Gestational diabetes is a condition that is diagnosed when a higher than normal blood sugar level occurs with pregnancy. Overall, 4 to 8 per cent of…
Morning Sickness
Morning sickness or nausea can happen any time of the day, despite being called morning sickness. This 'morning sickness' can be with or without vomiting. Nausea is one of the…
General Pregnancy Problems
The news of pregnancy is great news in most women's lives but it also bring along certain pregnancy problems. You will try to plan for anything you can possibly imagine,…
Pregnancy Management in the Joint Family System
Pregnancy Management in the Joint Family System A joint family system is a system where a woman lives with her husband and his family (susral). The married couple stays in…
Husband & His Pregnant Wife in Joint Family
Husband's Role in Supporting His Pregnant Wife Women agreed upon the point that their husbands want to help them, but that sometimes the family system makes it impossible for them…
Pregnant Working Women & Joint Family
Pregnant Working Women and the Joint Family System One woman, who was a professionally educated and working in a multinational company, described the miserable situation she had to go through.…
The myths about food and pregnancy
All over the world, pregnant women are bombarded with opinions about what to eat and what to avoid. All too often, sound advice gets lost in a stew of badly-reported…