Avoiding Foods while Pregnant

Raw Meat: Risk of contamination with coliform bacteria, toxoplasmosis, and salmonella.
Deli Meat: Deli meats have been known to be contaminated with Listeria, which can cause miscarriage.  If you are pregnant and you are considering eating deli meats, make certain that you reheat the meat until it is steaming.
Fish with Mercury: Fish that contain [...]

Update . . .Jennifer Nicole Lee

Jennifer Nicole Lee
I had a great suggestion from a comment from a reader yesterday (thank you Iandli!). Jennifer Nicole Lee was a housewife, mother of 2, and weighed in at nearly 200 lbs. After she gave birth to her second child, she took a picture of herself in a bikini and was so [...]

Why Get Fit?

Pre-pregnancy Exercise Plans for Fit People . . . hard to find
I am getting a bit frustrated searching for an exercise plan for pre-pregnancy. I go to the gym regularly, and it seems like most of the information out there is for overweight, sedentary moms at risk for diabetes. And considering over 50% [...]

Acupuncture for Pregnancy

I had several hours to kill and ran into a colleague of my mothers who taught her acupuncture and Chinese medicine.  This was something I grew up with in my house, so I am not one of those people that had to be convinced that Eastern medicine was a viable alternative to Western Medicine.
I asked [...]

A Baby-Ready Bod: Food

Since I am one the of lucky ones who are getting to plan their pregnancy, I am quite concerned with:

Getting my body in shape so the last months of pregnancy aren’t so painful, and I can better get through labor
Getting my body into shape so I can bounce back once the baby has been born

How [...]

One in 6 million

6,000,000 women in the United States will become pregnant in the next year. I hope to become one of them.
I will be living in Texas, and I would really like to avoid being very fat and sweaty and hormonal during the 95 degree summer heat. So that means that I need to time [...]