9 months pregnant

 You're pregnant and sometime within the next 9 months, you will give birth to your child. Take a moment to reflect on your own life, including your beliefs, religion, the options you have for childbirth—or not having any options at all—your health, what you were taught about childbirth by your parents, your previous birth experiences, and what you want for this one. Then take a moment to look around you at your neighbors, work colleagues, or other women you pass on the street. What do you and all of these other women have in common? You might find some similarities, yet you will probably focus more on the differences that exist. Can you blink or cough? Can ALL those other women do the same? That is the human body, which is universally shared with all of us. Using that of course as a basis of thinking, know that there is a way for any woman to prepare for childbirth that teaches us about our birthing body. Its such common knowledge that you'll wonder way it you didnt know it before. Thats why Common Knowledge Trust has produced The Pink Kit Method for birthing better resources. The main resource is The Pink Kit: Essential Preparations for your birthing body (multi-media: video, audio cassette and book) and The Companion Guide. Now, lets take another leap of thought. Think about your choices about childbirth, what assessments, monitoring and procedures your birth professional is speaking with you about, your concerns about pain, possible pain relief options and even possibly having a non-labouring birth, or your health issues that might affect your birth choices and think about your Birth Plan. When you learn the skills in The Pink Kit, you can take those skills with you into whatever birth you find yourself having. Regardless of where or with whom you will birth or whatever is happening to you or around you, you will have another contraction. If you are having a non-labouring c/s then you can use these resources to prepare for the birth of your child anyway , thus giving you a deep sense of connection to the process of childbirth. If you are going to labour and give birth, you can learn the truly universal skills, which work. Youll still be breathing, so why not learn the Directed Breathing (the most natural way to breathe through contractions, particularly when they are intense). Youll still either be sitting, lying, standing or walking, so why not learn how to relax inside The Pelvic Clock as a focus to keep relaxed inside and how to Map Your Pelvis so you can find the positions that really keep you open, even if you have to stay in bed or choose to. Taking another leap of thought, consider your partner. As different women and men are, they still share the same human body. Using The Pink Kit Method for birthing better, your partner can experience the same body knowledge. This helps fathers become the exceptional coaches at birth, you want them to be. At its simplest, birth is moving an object (baby) through a tube (pelvis), opening a diaphragm (cervix) and opening an aperture (vagina). You are the container and you can use your mind to prepare those areas, keep them relaxed and mentally accept the sensations by using these skills; then your baby will come our of your body into your arms more easily. Fathers love the information. Its practical and works. Taking yet another leap and think about labour. Its like driving on an unknown journey. The journey is unknown, even if youve taken it before this one will be different, however, if youve already learned to drive the car, the journey will be easier. The Pink Kit is your driving manual. You can learn how to drive your vehicle (your body) through this unknown journey. Your partner can help you throughout as he learns the skills to keep you focused, relaxed and able to meet the challenge of the experience. He can help you reduce back labour with The Sacral Manoeuvre or relax tension in your hips and create space for your baby with The Hip Lift. He can help you prepare your aperture so that it opens easily and heals rapidly. Many women who do a lot of the Internal Work, will tell you that they didnt feel like I had a baby several hours after birth. The hardest leap of thought is to consider all the issues around interventions and natural birth. Consider how the thousands upon thousands of couples who consider themselves Pink Kitters have experienced these complex issues and often part of an individual Birth Plan. Most couples who used this information have laboured in hospital where there would be heaps of assessments, monitoring and procedures. Personally, they will negotiate about their choices with their birth professional or not. Health issues and the unexpected may change the Birth Plan. Regardless, couples prepared and then just did the work in whatever situation they found themselves. Because the woman used her skills to ‘manage’ her labour, staff would compliment her on how well she was coping or doing. Because the father also had the coaching skills to really help (speaking the common language and using the common touch) staff would tell him that they wished more fathers would be such great coaches. After the birth, the couple was complimented on ‘what a good birth’ they had and ‘how lucky’ they were. Couples tried to explain that their good birth was due to the preparations and skills they brought to the experience. Yet, staff often would tell them that really nothing they had done could have made a difference, because you never know what labour is going to be like’. These couples ALWAYS felt that they had had a natural birth. They realised that assessments, monitoring and procedures were being done; however, it was the way they had self managed and worked together that left them elated. To them, they had had a natural birth even around all the interventions. Become a Pink Kitter and reap the benefits for yourself and family. You will pass these skills on to your children. More importantly, all couples speak about the continued benefits: closer partner and parenting relationships. You and your partner can go into labour and birth feeling confident and capable. Do the work and use the skills and always remember The Little Engine That Could.I think I can, I think I canI KNEW I could! Its an ideal gift to give at a baby shower. Ask your mother to get it for you. Shell tell you that she wished she had had this information when she had you and there are work-at-home opportunities by wholesaling the Kit in your local area.

The most wonderful experience that can happen to a woman is to be pregnant. It is a truly amazing process of life and being able to go through 9 months of carrying another living, breathing person inside of you will change you forever. Nine months of pregnancy are what come to mind. But you actually have to start from the first day of your last menstrual cycle. Women have no idea when they ovulate or conceive, but they do know when the first day of their last menstrual cycle occurred. Ovulation wont take place for another 2 weeks, so you may actually conceive during week 3. If you want to have kids, now is the time to start getting your body ready. You need to start taking prenatal vitamins, which contain folic acid and iron (two very important nutrients for fetus development early in pregnancy). Also, start tracking ovulation by taking your basal body temperature and watch for the signs. Check out the article called So Youre Ready to Have a Baby.. to see more information. Make sure to check back next week to see what happen in week 2. Until then, happy baby making. Week #2 This is around the week of ovulation. You are now at the midpoint of your menstrual cycle (if you have a regular 28-day cycle), about to ovulate and are most likely to get pregnant. Your uterus has shed its lining and is preparing itself to house your fertilized egg. Your egg is ripening in one of your ovaries and is getting ready to be released. The time of her ovulation determines how many days a month a woman is truly fertile. You need to keep track of your menstrual cycle, your basal temperature and the consistency of your cervical mucus. These will give you the best signs of when you are about to ovulate. Prepare to have fun trying to make your baby. The first 0-12 weeks of a womans pregnancy is called the first trimester. It is during this period that a womans body experiences drastic changes during pregnancy. During this time, a pregnant woman may or may not experience discomforts. To assist you in coping with them, here is a list of the most common changes and discomforts, along with advice on how to effectively deal with them. Sickness in the morning and nausea The pressure placed on the digestive tract by the growing baby and the stretching of the uterine muscles can increase stomach acids, which the body releases through vomiting. As such, a womans sense of smell is on hyperdrive during pregnancy; this can also increase irritability as well as the probability of vomiting. Rejoice, for this doesnt stay for the whole nine months. Usually the vomiting stops after the third month. And do not worry the vomiting doesnt hurt the baby. To help with morning sickness, try not too eat large meals instead eat small frequent meals so that the stomach doesnt get shocked. Additionally, studies indicate that morning sickness can be alleviated by eating a diet high in proteins and complex carbohydrates like bread and other starchy foods. Also avoid eating fatty food. Breast swelling The body, in its preparation for the arrival of the baby, releases progesterone and estrogen in higher levels than usual. These hormones sends a message to the breast to produce more milk, this is in preparation for feeding the baby when it comes out. The areolas will most likely enlarge and darken. Later on you may notice that these areas start to have white bumps. There may also be increased sensitivity in the breast area and you may also see blue lines along your breasts. These blue lines are only your blood vessels working hard to supply blood to your breasts. Swelling may increase during the latter period of pregnancy; in this case one must use a good support bra of the right size. Shortness of Breath and fatigue Pregnancy can cause fatigue and other emotional changes in a woman. You ought to be aware that your body is feeding another living thing even while you are sleeping. During pregnancy, you body needs more rest. Fatigue is normal, and should go away after the body gets used to it. To prevent yourself from being more irritable than you are and more tired, try to get as much sleep as you can in the night. The ideal length of sleep for an adult is eight hours, try to get this much every night. A proper diet also helps with fatigue after all youre already feeding two people. One other reason for the fatigue may be the lack of vitamins and nutrients for the both of you. Take the vitamins that your doctor recommends and make sure you eat lots of nutrient-rich foods. Exercise is another great help. It doesnt have to b hard exercise, a light jog a slow walk can in sense practice your body for the extra work it does. But remember, a balance of exercise and rest is needed too much exercise or too much rest can also increase fatigue. Irritability and mood changes Because of the increased presence of hormones, mood swings are uncommon, this happens to women monthly during pre-menstrual syndrome. Lightheadedness During pregnancy the heart is pumping harder to provide extra blood to the legs and the uterus, as such a woman may experience dizziness due to the lack of blood flow into the brain. Low blood sugar levels can also contribute to dizziness. The best thing to do in this case is to make sure that you eat protein rich food and frequent smaller meals. Urination Frequency The rapid growth of the uterus presses the other internal organs away, this includes the bladder. Usually the frequency decreases when the uterus settles into the abdominal cavity. It may return on the third trimester when the uterus drops back down to prepare for birth. Try leaning forward while urinating. This is to make sure that you empty your bladder completely and can help in decreasing the urinating frequency. These are the more common discomforts during pregnancy, others like varicose veins, cravings and heartburn are all normal. Being prepared early can help a lot during pregnancy. Be sure to have regular check-ups with your doctor as well as a proper diet, vitamins and exercise.