Decorating your baby’s room

Decorating your kid’s room can be a lot of fun but it is also a hard task.

The minute you start decorating the room for your baby girl or boy millions of ideas come rushing to your head, the colors to be used the patterns the cartoons to be used the upholstery material the fabrics the color and designs of the wall paper . Doing up a child’s room is way more fun and exciting than doing up an elder’s room.

You can get as creative as you want for your child’s room as the more artistic you are the more colorful the room will be and the child is sure to love it all the more.

There are no rules for doing up your child’s room just go with the flow, do whatever you want to do or feel like doing. Just make it a fun activity and you are sure to be happy and make to your child happy and comfortable too.

Do not rush into making your child room take time, do not just rush into choosing a wall paper at one store see more stores narrow down a few ones and then select the best out of the lot.

It is always better to use wall paper than paint in your child’s room. Wall paper is faster cleaner and looks really nice as you can choose lovely patters and prints.

Painting is more tedious and time consuming though it is more lasting than wall paper it is still best to be avoided in a child’s room as children can dirty the walls so wall papers can be replaced as it is way more inexpensive in comparison to paint.

Use attractive colors for the child’s room colors like pink, peach, blue, light green, off white, light orange, yellow are good and soft on the eyes. Try avoiding using harsh colors like purple, red, black, dark blue.

While doing your child’s room safety has to top the list make sure the windows have strong and completely covered with grills. If not grills you can use French glass pane windows that have a lock to it and the lock is safely high up.

Make sure if there is a balcony then the balcony door be shut tight and the child is not accessible to any of the latches.

Keep an eye to leave the room spacious do not clutter it too much, keep it more open for the child to have enough space to run around without getting knocked out by side boards or cupboards.

While decorating the room do not forget to add fun elements like fluorescent stars to the ceiling or some cute and colorful chimes or even colorful stickers are a good way to add the fun element in the room. Fill up the room with toys, stuff toys, colorful play mats, colorful cushions with cartoon prints and some books. 

Instead of fabric curtains you can use colorful vinyl blinds which are a cheaper and an attractive option.

Children room has to be done up using your heart more and head less, make it with love and it is sure to make your child happy and comfortable. After all it is the child that makes a house a home.

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Signs of labor

You are getting cramps but are they contractions of labor or they are false alarms you can never know. It is so often seen you take your bag and rush to the hospital and are sent back as it was a false alarm. Even ladies who have been pregnant before can never differentiate between an actual labor and false alarm. As the pain and the cramps that follow are just the same. Urine leek due to bladder pressure is taken as a water break so you are sure it is labor but again it is a false alarm.

Given below are some points that will help you understand the true signs of labor-

1. Breaking of the water bag is priority the main sign of a women going into labor. I t normally seen a women goes into labor in an hour or 2 after her water bag burst. Only after the water bag burst does the dilation begin. Please do not confuse leaking of urine

to be a water bag burst. They are completely different, not necessary when the water breaks there will be a huge gush of water but if the water is sticky and colorless then understand it is a water break so pack your bags and leave for the hospital.

2. False contractions are severe contractions but after sometime they will disappear, so wait for sometime before you run to the doctor. Labor contractions are severe

in comparison and they will go on increasing every hour till delivery. Labor contractions are more unbearable than false labor.

3. You will notice some discharge from cervix, this happens because the cervix is dilating and softening and getting ready for labor. If you see discharge in your 9th month then start getting prepared as your labor is just a few hours or a day away.

4. During the last phase of labor there is also a chance for you to get diarrhea, as a hormone releases which can lead to stimulating the bowel movements

leading to frequency of stools and diarrhea in some cases.

5. Backache is common especially in the last trimester but if in the last month the backache gets severe it is a symptom that your labor is near.

Birth of the baby is a miracle whenever it is just keep your strength intact and your faith in the almighty. As in labor you will require all the strength you have.

After all who has ever said being a mother is easy :-)))!!

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Urinary Incontinence during and after pregnancy

Pregnancy changes the entire body and its functioning to a major extent, a lot happens inside and we aren't even aware. There are in-numerous changes happening inside the body and everyday there is a new symptom. When they say a pregnant woman has volatile mood swings it is true, after all the body is going thru physical, emotional and hormonal changes, it isn't easy. And so the beauty of child birth is only for a woman as she only has the emotional strength to carry and then deliver a baby. God therefore has been only so kind on our species.

We come back to the changes in our body working system, they are bound to get disturbed after your  baby is growing inside you so its obvious fact that the body will also grow. The more your uterus expands the more stretch happens in and around the abdomen area. A lot of muscles become weaker and overridden. Urinary incontinence is one of the major problems we see during pregnancy and in some cases even after child birth. What is urinary incontinence? This is in simple terms is uncontrollable leaking of your urine at the slightest pressure. And in medical terms they call is an involuntary loss of urine due to an overactive bladder and superseded urethra. The uterus is growing and expanding, this leads to excess pressure on the bladder and therefore the bladder has these overindulgent spasms that keep giving you the urge to use the bathroom as often as every 30 minutes. A sudden cough or high pitched laughing and you may leak a few drops of urine. Please don't get embarrassed it happens to every pregnant women and nothing to be ashamed off come on it's your body that is going thru so much and we have to be considerate to it. We need to understand that during pregnancy the expansion of the uterus leads to putting too much pressure and stress on the bladder and that pressure is the only reason for the leak of urine. In many cases this problem solves after delivery but in some cases that have had a tough labor the problem continues for a few more weeks. Too much pushing can lead to causing pressure on the pelvic floor muscle that plays a very crucial role during child birth, and weakening of this pelvic floor muscle can also lead to urinary incontinence. For this reason only we insist on during Kegel exercises all thru your pregnancy. Doing Kegel exercises is the only way you can control urinary incontinence during as well as after Pregnancy and child birth can lead to injuring as well as denting of the nerves that control the bladder, and episiotomy during labor also further weaken the pelvic floor muscle that can further lead to more urinary incontinence. Volatile behavior due to emotional and physical stress also affects this problem. To deal with it you need to keep yourself relaxed and calm at all times and keep doing Kegel exercises as often as possible and while doing so keep increasing your stretch capacity, it's the only way to deal with urinary incontinence. If even after 6 weeks your problem hasn't solved please go and see your health care expert.

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