One of the most important nutrients for your baby’s growth and development, as well as your own health during pregnancy and beyond, is calcium. Calcium helps your baby to develop properly. More than just helping with bone development, calcium contributes to heart, nerve, and muscle development, too. If you don’t get enough calcium, your body [...]

While things are changing somewhat, the fact of the matter is that there is still quite a bit of stigma about postpartum mental illness. It doesn’t help that, so often, the media get it wrong. A disaster will strike and a woman will commit awful acts, and the media will attribute it to “postpartum depression.” [...]

One of the most common complaints from women who are flying is the discomfort that can come from flying. There are a number of concerns that flying raises for a pregnant woman’s comfort. Knowing what those issues are can help you to know what to do in order to make sure you’re staying comfortable while [...]

Pregnancy can be downright uncomfortable. Things like gas, heartburn, and bloating can rise to record levels when you’re pregnant. Unfortunately, when you’re traveling, the schedule and availability of food is likely to increase these discomforts. This means you need to do some specific things in order to avoid these kinds of discomforts while traveling when [...]

When it comes to pregnancy, even something as straightforward as a family vacation can become something of a concern. There are the obvious concerns, of course, such as not traveling in your third trimester or not being too far from home after a certain point in your pregnancy. However, there are some other pregnancy concerns [...]

During the second trimester of pregnancy, there are some specific sorts of development that take place as your baby begins to grow and develop. Your baby is going to develop many organs during this time period, and your baby’s movements and senses are going to start changing, as well. Your baby’s second trimester development will [...]

When you’re pregnant, there are some discomforts that are more worrisome than others. It’s not uncommon for a woman to have some degree or another of abdominal pain or even cramping when she is pregnant. That being said, pregnancy cramping is one of those things that can be a sign something is wrong, and cramping [...]