Archive for May, 2011

Why A Day Spa Is Right For You

Article by orsondixon

As the name suggests, a day spa is where you go to for the day to get yourself pampered. You can get massages, facials, as well as body treatments here. They are so named because you don’t spend the night here, unlike a destination spa or resort spa.

Look for a peaceful, quiet atmosphere. A full menu of facials, massages, and body treatments should be available. The massage therapists and estheticians should be professionals. The facility should be impeccably clean. Professional spa products should be available.

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Article by Nelson Berry

A baby is definitely a huge family blessing, but his or her arrival also means a lot of adjustments and stress. Everyone should be prepared, including the baby’s future sibling.

Sibling rivalry can happen very early, even before your baby is born. The eldest usually sees the coming of the sibling as a huge threat for love and attention. This is further aggravated if your eldest is close to you.

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Article by Daryl B. Chapman

Therapeutic massage has been commonly-used for centuries to improve overall health condition, relieve stress, and reduce muscle tension. More often than not, women receive indefinite responses from the community health groups regarding the safety and efficiency of massage during the course of pregnancy. Studies and investigation show that massage during pregnancy is a vital contributory factor to the improvement of women’s prenatal health care and it should be given careful considerations.

The Advantages

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Yoga Journal’s Prenatal Yoga [VHS]

Yoga Journal’s Prenatal Yoga [VHS]

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Question by Alanarama: can anyone with bipolar disorder please help me?
hiya, i am 22 years old, i have suffered with “depression” on and off since i was 14 years old.
i had prenatal and postnatal depression when i was 17-18 aswell.
anyways recently i have been tnhinking maybe i do not have depression as such, but bipolar disorder. the reason i say this is, i am so up and down all the time!
like take last week, i was soooooooooo hyper my bf actually asked wots up with me coz im not usually like that. was acing very outgoing and over confident, i even got up and sang karaoke (ha), i cleaned the whole house top to bottom in a day, and still wanted to do more, i got told to “shut up” on more than one occasion as people cudnt get a word in ages and i had repeated the same thing numerous times. I was getting up an hour before i needed to,i was wanting sex 2-3 times oer day and felt on top of the world. then one day boom, i come crashing down, i just wanted to lay in bed all day n cry in a heap n not move, even possibly not wake up if i could help it. i had no sex drive at all, nothing could make me smile, i felt hollow and “not there” .
yesterday i woke up happy as larry in a right good mood, then around 3 oclock in the afternoon for no reason, i dissolved into tears and then would not speak for the rest of the afternoon coz i felt so “dull”.
now throughout my life when i was younger people always used to coment on how i was the life and soul of the party n really hyper and i did alot of thiings that sometimes got me into trouble, but at the same time i was being treated for depression coz i felt so low? i have in the past, spent money recklessly that i didnt have to spend…..£100′s on new clothes i dont need instead of food for the week or the rent….i can also get VERY angry VERY quickly for no apparent reason, be fine one minute,actually flip out on my other half or my son one minute, and the next have no idea why i am in such a mood and start crying coz i think im cracking up.
ive al;ways been up and down since my early teens, and im just worrying now how it might be affecting my son, its not fair on him. the possibility of bipolar has never been examined in me. i had years of treatment for depression (councilling and antidepressants) but i took myself off them as it wasnt making any difference what soever.
ive been to the doctors and explained how ive been feeling later, and they said “thats just what its like to be a woman” and when i persisted and got referred to a counciller, she made me fill in a questionaire about how depressed i had been in the past week, obviously i had been on a high that week and when i filled it in it showed now signs of depression so i have been discharged.
i KNOW that i am not right in myself, i shouldnt be feeling like this, like im cracking up…..so my question is do u think i am bipolar? and if so how do i go about gettin my doctor to investigate it further? and if not any other ideas what it could be? thankyou in advance i hope someone can give me a good answer xx
forgot to say, i have taken 3 different online bipolar screening tests and all of them came back with i have moderate/severe symptoms :/

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Eating for Pregnancy: The Essential Nutrition Guide and Cookbook for Today’s Mothers-to-Be

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Women who are expecting are being targeted by marketing from companies that sell fish oil. What is necessary to know is this: should you take DHA during pregnancy and if so, how much and why?

First, there seems to be some confusion about the relationship between DHA and omega 3 fish oil. DHA is an omega 3. What this means is that if you are trying to take DHA during pregnancy, you do not need a “prenatal” formula. A quality omega 3 fish oil supplement will not only suffice but in most cases be preferable.

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