by JoniS | Nov 13, 2017 | Pregnancy
Pregnant women experience sore throats or care for family members who have one. It is important to know what she can do to help herself and her family. Personal Story I wasn’t pregnant. My daughter was. She had a sore throat and she wanted to get better quickly. What...
by JoniS | Oct 2, 2017 | Pregnancy
What is a pregnant woman supposed to do when she gets a cold? Colds have another name in the medical world, upper respiratory infection (URI). These infections are common, hence the term “common cold”. The germs causing this condition spread easily because the person...
by JoniS | Aug 21, 2017 | Pregnancy
There are several types of nausea which can occur during pregnancy. Nausea and Vomiting in Pregnancy (NVP) has symptoms which are normal. The symptoms range from mild to severe nausea, gagging, and retching vomit. Extreme NVP with unrelenting vomiting is hyperemesis...
by JoniS | Jul 10, 2017 | Pregnancy
Miscarriage occurs when a baby dies within the mother’s womb before the twentieth week of pregnancy. According to the House of Dimes, about ten to fifteen percent of pregnancies of women who know they are pregnant end in miscarriage. As many as half of pregnancies...
by JoniS | May 29, 2017 | Pregnancy
The best dietary approach to pregnancy is to consume whole foods nutrition before trying to conceive and to continue that practice during pregnancy, breastfeeding, and beyond. Lab work can be done to determine what is needed in the woman’s diet to bring her body into...
by JoniS | Apr 17, 2017 | Pregnancy
Conception occurs when God blesses the union of a man and a woman with a fertilized egg. The man’s sperm is the seed which provides the blueprint for the child’s life and its gender. The woman’s body provides the egg, which provides a corresponding blueprint, and the...