Pregnancy exercises help strengthen your body, increase blood and oxygen delivery to your baby and help prepare you for labor and delivery. Click to know more!
Want to make your gender reveal party or baby shower even more fun? Then put together an interactive baby gender reveal scavenger hunt! I've collected several ideas on how to put a gender reveal scavenger hunt together so it will be easy to do.
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Are you currently expecting and dreaming of a natural birth? Wondering what all you should be doing to prepare your body for labor? Women that have natural births typically have shorter labors, higher rates of breastfeeding success, and a quicker postpartum recovery. Not to mention, there's less stress on your baby and the fact that natural birth
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Looking for fun ways to tell your kids you’re pregnant? Sharing the news of your pregnancy is always exciting. Have fun telling your children about their new role with these creative sibling pregnancy announcements. Don’t forget to set up a camera to catch their reaction. Good or bad, you’ll never want to forget it! 15
Make the most out of your pregnancy nesting stage! Check out these great nesting projects and make your life easier when the new baby comes home.
Use these pregnancy journal prompts and ideas to capture your favorite moments and what you’re learning during pregnancy.
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This morning I'm reminiscing about how much fun I had planning the games for my BFF's baby shower back in 2008 (I can't believe little peanut is 5 now!). I was in charge of the shower games. I remember scouring the internet looking for free baby shower games. Most of them were SUPER hceesy and
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Lately I've been feeling a little drained and I've been trying to find sources of new inspiration. I've realized that as time goes on, you lose a little bit of the innocent spirit that's inside of you. You begin to forget the simple things that use to make you uncontrollably happy, and unfortunately everything around you gets tangled up into a discombobulated mess. I spent a few days searching for what really does inspire me. Then, out of the blue, I stumbled onto my admissions essay for the School of Interior Architecture and Design. We were told to write about a place that inspires us, a place that makes us want to be designers. I read through the 250 word essay and reached the last line..... "Not just one place, but the natural world around me inspires me to create beauty." That sentence reminded me why I came to this program and why I'm going through this. Soo... lets look to the natural world for inspiration !! The Dancing Tree The Cherry Blossom. Always an amazingly beautiful thing to see. Its flowers are nearly pure white, tinged with the palest pink, especially near the stem. They bloom and fall within a week, so catching sight of one is pretty spectacular. Lets Design... A stunning room! Done in simple light colors and patterns, set against a dramatic canvas of a cherry blossom imitation. [Image taken from Material Girls blog site... more amazing tree paintings on walls found there.] Lulu Painting A child's play room, made to resemble a park. Never to young for imagination. The Hydrangea. I was stumbling through Anthropology's website (die for the store) the other day and I found this absolutely delightful knob. It's so cute I decided to put in my current studio design. Fashion Designers also take inspiration from the natural environment. Lucy Liu in a Giambattista Valli Gown, paired with gold Christian Louboutin pumps. There are many ways to be inspired, everyone is drawn to something new and different. These are a few examples of how the natural environment inspires design. Don't forget what makes you imaginatively innovative! What inspires you?
What will make you cry harder than the first 10 minutes of Up? This pregnancy announcement inspired by everyone's favorite animated tearjerker.
We are quickly approaching the end of this pregnancy. Talk about time speeding by as we count down these final few weeks! As I’ve mentioned before, we are planning to use the Hypnobirthing approach for our birth. The belief behind this approach is that a woman’s body knows how and when to birth a baby, without additional medical interventions. Under special circumstances, or when the need arises, there may be a need for a medical intervention, but in most cases, there isn’t any need at all. Throughout the book and class we took, we discussed different ways to naturally induce labor, before deciding to induce in a hospital setting with Pitocin, releasing membranes, or any other forced intervention. Things such as walking, pitted dates, acupuncture, essential oils, pineapple, raspberry leaf tea, and eating spicy foods were a few of the options. With this in mind, I decided to do a little research and came across this yummy smoothie that can help induce labor. It is suggested that you drink this smoothie during the last month of pregnancy, and I started drinking it daily at 36.5 weeks. I originally planned on starting it right at 36 weeks, but I was afraid …