5 Tips to Exercising While Pregnant (Tips of Pregnancy)

Tips of Pregnancy

Obviously, exercising while pregnant is not for the purpose of losing weight. In fact, exercising while pregnant has three benefits:
1. You'll keep your heart and muscles in shape.
2. You'll be more comfortable during the nine months of pregnancy.
3. There is some evidence that labor will be shorter. Who doesn't want that, right?

Exercising while pregnant is different from regular exercise. Here are the 5 tips for exercising while pregnant:
1. Talk with your doctor. Your doctor will be able to give you a safe heart rate range for you to stay within. Also your doctor will know if you have an "at risk" pregnancy. If you do have an "at risk" pregnancy, exercising while pregnant may not be possible. At the very least, you may need to modify your exercise routine.
2. Stay hydrated. This is imperative for both you and your baby. Keep water with you at all times.
3. Avoid overheating. This is especially true during your first six months of pregnancy.
4. Take an exercise class designed for pregnant woman. This way you'll be with other pregnant woman and you'll be confident that the exercises have been designed for exercising while pregnant.
5. Adapt to your new center of balance. As your belly grows, you will find your center of gravity changing. This may or may not affect exercising while pregnant, but you need to be aware of it and may necessary adjustments.
Use these 5 tips for exercising while pregnant and you'll also find it easier to lose weight after birth. Good luck.

Article Source: Lauren Cuevas

How to Pick the Sex of Your Baby

I write articles meant to help couples naturally pick or chose their baby's sex or gender. So, this article will not be focusing on choosing the gender of your future child in a lab or fertility clinic where a doctor inserts the desired gender artificially. Many couples can not afford this process and I believe that you can have similar results on the cheap at home. So, below, I'll tell you the steps that I would take if I had a definite preference for one gender over another.

To Successfully Pick Your Baby's Sex, Pick The Right Sexual Positions To Conceive: Before I go into how intercourse positions can effect whether you are successful in getting your desired gender, I need to explain some background. The sperm that will make a girl or a boy baby differ greatly in terms or behavior, speed, and life span. Y sperm produces boys and it's very weak, short lived, and vulnerable. It gets weakened once it's been placed in your vaginal tract. Worse, it only has a life span of a few days or less. So, if you want a male baby, you'll want to use deep penetration when you have sex. This gives these weak guys a shorter distance to travel and every little bit in this process most certainly helps.

On the other side of the coin, the sperm that will provide you with a baby girl is very hardy and long lived. You really have the luxury of time with it because it can live for five days quite easily. And, your vaginal tract doesn't really weaken it. So, you can use shallow penetration if you want a daughter because a long trip is no sweat for the X sperm.

Picking The Right Time Of The Month Depending On The Sex Or Gender You Want: Remembering the Y (boy) sperm's weakness and the X (girl) sperm's strength, you'll need to chose the timing of your conception attempts based on which you want. For a girl, you want to conceive well before your egg is ready (your ovulation day.) You can start trying three - four days before, but should stop on the day off.

For a male baby, you want to wait until the day the egg is ready. And, the day after is fair game too. Do not try before this though because this window is just too generous. Your work will be wasted because most of the Ys will either weaken or disappear in this time frame.

Now obviously, accuracy is vital here. If you are off on your calculations even by as little as one day, you can fail. So, it's of the utmost importance that you are absolutely sure that you are right. Don't guess and don't pick a day and hope for the best. Really know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you're either getting ready to ovulate or have already done so. High quality saliva and urine ovulation predictors work well for this, but don't buy the cheapest off brand one that you can get your hands on. High quality models only cost a few dollars more and this may well be the best $5 you ever spent.

Creating A Hostile Or Friendly Reproductive Environment For Picking Your Baby's Sex: Timing is important, but what the sperm faces once it gets into your vaginal tract is equally important. A vaginal tract with a high PH will favor a female fetus because this is too acidic for male sperm to survive. A low PH will favor a male fetus because this alkaline environment is more friendly to these weaker guys.

A good tool for this is saliva PH testers. You can get them for pretty cheap at a health food store online. They are quick and easy and will give you a good starting point. You can raise or lower your reading by going on an acidic (consuming high PH foods for a daughter) or alkaline (consuming low PH foods for a son) diet. You can also douche with solutions that will either lower or raise.

There is one more way to change your acidity and that is by female orgasm. If you want a baby girl, you should avoid orgasm because the fluids will make the environment more alkaline. But, if you want a boy boy, you should have an orgasm because you actually want to be more alkaline.
I've put together a few websites that take a lot of the guess work out of choosing your baby's gender. You'll find step by step instructions, resources for douche recipes and food PH lists, tips, support, and examples of ovulation predictors / PH testing strips

Article Source: Sandy Dean