Abdominal Itchiness During Pregnancy
Itchy abdominal rash during pregnancy is very common. It is a frustrating but an inevitable side effect of pregnancy for many women. The itching begins when the abdomen begins to expand as the baby grows within and the skin of the stomach stretches. Also, the hormones surging through your body during pregnancy [...]
Baby Length Percentile
Look at any school class picture and you will notice that not all kids are of the same height. Some are tall, while the ones next to them may be short. Just as it is easy to compare children’s heights, it is easy to understand that children grow at a different pace. Genes [...]
Baby Percentile Calculator
Baby growth percentile calculations are an important aspect for all parents, friends, and relatives. The moment a baby is born, you are bombarded with questions like how does the baby look, what is the baby’s weight, and was it a normal delivery or a C-section.
Growth percentiles are religiously entered in a baby book [...]
Behavior Modification for Toddlers
It is a fact of life that toddlers are bound to misbehave. They may simply not listen to you, which, in turn, can send your blood pressure levels shooting. As a parent, it is very difficult to cope with such situations. In fact, tackling behavior can be as hard as predicting future [...]
Germinal Stage Of Pregnancy
Pregnancy is indeed an excellent time for the mother as well as her friends and family. It is an experience which has everything: joy, fear, curiosity, anxiety, and expectation. Pregnancy lasts for 40 weeks or nine months. These forty weeks are divided into distinct stages of development for both the mother-to-be and [...]
New Born Baby Growth Chart
Are you worried about your new born? Monitoring your baby’s growth will help you know how well your baby is. Healthy growth and development is the main objective of parenting. Understanding your baby’s growth and maintaining a growth chart will help you maintain your baby’s health and his/her overall development.
A new [...]
Toddler Bronchitis Symptoms
Cough, cough, cough… Does your child spend sleepless nights because of this persistent cough? Coughing is a way of clearing up the air passage when the child faces an obstacle while breathing. However, when there is an infection in the main air passages of the upper lungs caused by a virus or bacteria, [...]
Toddler Fracture Treatment
Toddlers love to run, climb, and jump, and when they do these, they often fall and get hurt. Many a times, they escape with a minor bruise, and at times, it is a muscle pull. However, sometimes, it can be a ligament injury and or a bone fracture.
A fracture happens when the bone [...]
Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy Symptoms
Some pregnant women experience severe itching in the later stages of their pregnancy. When this happens, the common cause is generally cholestasis, a liver disease that can only affect pregnant women. In this condition high levels of pregnancy hormones affect the usual flow of the bile in the gallbladder. Cholestasis generally [...]
Migraine headaches during pregnancy
Migraine headaches during pregnancy are actually very common. If you’ve been getting migraines even before you conceived, then you’ll see that either you improve a lot or your migraines could become worse.
Migraines
If you’ve been getting migraines during your pregnancy, then let’s understand what migraines are in the first place. These are different [...]