Posts tagged: old wives tales

Pregnancy Tips – Knowing Which Ones To Observe

By Judy Wellsworth, February 21, 2010

Not all pregnancy tips that you get from friends and family members should be taken seriously. Many of these are simply old wives’ tales or are told to you just to make you feel anxious about your pregnancy. By reading literature on your delicate situation, you will learn to weed out the good pregnancy tips from the bad ones.

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Pregnancy – An Overview

By Albertin Abelmont, February 19, 2010

Pregnancy is one of the most joyful and important phrases in a woman’s life. Each woman dreams of becoming a mother some day. Having your very own bundle of joy in your arms at all times – the feeling is priceless. For all those looking to start a family, here is an overview. Read on, you just might find something that could prove useful or something that you didn’t know all these years!

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Natural Childbirth – Have Fun With Old Wives Tales!

By Loretta Anderson, February 8, 2010

Well ladies, I have written many articles on pregnancy, natural birth, natural induction and breastfeeding. So I thought I would write a fun article with a few old wives tales! Take this article as a bit of fun, it is not scientific fact it is just speculation from my years of experience.

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Answering Myths About Pregnancy

By Apurva Shree, January 28, 2010

Pregnancy is a time for joy. It is a time when the parents-to-be look forward to the hold their bundle of joy in their arms. Unfortunately, not every mother-to-be is as knowledgeable about pregnancy as she should be. To add the confusion they are often misled by half truths and old wives’ tales when it comes to their pregnancy week by week. In order to have a healthy pregnancy, women must educate themselves on the early pregnancy symptoms and other pregnancy related issues.

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Acid Reflux During Pregnancy – What Causes it and What to Do About It

By David Silva, January 28, 2010

Acid reflux during pregnancy isn’t a universal experience among pregnant women, but it happens often enough that old wives tales have grown up around it. For example, they used to say if a pregnant woman had acid reflux the baby would be born with a full head of hair. Wives tales aside, this condition during pregnancy can be incredibly uncomfortable and is often sited as one of the worst side effects.

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How to Get Pregnant

By Heather Barnard, January 27, 2010

If someone were to ask you how to get pregnant you might think that the answer is obvious. But the majority of couples who decide to try for a baby don’t become pregnant until they have been trying for many months and in some cases even years. This is not necessarily due to fertility problems. Many cases have been studied by the medical profession and the reasons for a healthy couple not becoming pregnant under optimum circumstances in a certain month and yet becoming pregnant in another month under the same conditions are still unknown. There are a lot of old wives tales that we still hear and believe, (see the top 10 pregnancy myths at the end of this article) and as a whole we are not really educated about becoming pregnant at all. In fact we receive more information about how NOT to become pregnant.

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Exercise During Pregnancy-What Is Safe?

By Christy Stevenson, January 18, 2010

Im Pregnant – Should I Exercise?

When new participants showed up in my fitness classes and saw me, the instructor, bearing a round, pregnant figure, their faces took on a look of either admiration, condemnation, or worry. All expressions I easily understood, for when I discovered I was pregnant, I too felt a range of feelings toward my part-time career in the fitness industry. Could I still workout? Could exercise harm me or the baby? What types of exercises could I continue, and which should I quit?

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Trying to Get Pregnant? – Or Trying to Get Pregnant Quickly?

By Jane Butler, January 17, 2010

How long have you been trying to get pregnant? A few weeks – rather exciting isn’t it? A few months? – ok a little frustrating. A few years? – incredibly frustrating to say the least!

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