Mindfulness Training May Ease IVF Stress
A British researcher thinks mindfulness training might prove instrumental in easing the loneliness and emotional stress associated with IVF.
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How Safe is a Massage During Pregnancy?
When you are pregnant or trying to conceive, it can be a stressful time. Prenatal massages are great for stress relief and relaxation. A person who is trained in prenatal massage will be able to tend to stiff and tense muscles and provide much needed relief.
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Get in Shape to Improve Your Fertility
Get into optimal shape and good health now.
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Yoga for Fertility
Yoga, a practice of mind-body awareness and integration, can improve fertility.
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Pregnant or Want To Be? You Must Lessen Your Stress
Many pregnant women are under stress. Coping with stress in pregnancy is important to improve pregnancy outcome.
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In-Water Massage and Pregnancy
Hydrotherapy is not as common as prenatal massage but may be just as effective. While hot water is off the plate for the duration of pregnancy, hydrotherapy may be just what mom-to-be ordered.
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How Acupuncture Enhances ART
Men and women undergoing assisted reproductive therapies (ART) may find
that acupuncture enhances the effort.
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7 Tips for Staying Comfortable at Work During Pregnancy
Working until the latter stages of pregnancy could increase this feeling exponentially, but there are a few things you can change about your workspace to increase your comfort level.
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Meditation: A Magic Wand Against Stress
Being a parent can be stressful. There are constant demands on your time, finances, energy and attention. From sleepless nights with your crying baby to arguments with a stroppy teen, it just keeps on coming. Stress is bad for you as a parent and it’s bad for your child.
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How Teacher Stress Affects Your Child
Teachers play a huge role in our children’s lives. While most parents are painfully aware that their own stress affects their child, they rarely consider the effects if teachers’ stress.
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Fertility and Prenatal Pregnancy Yoga Guide
Prenatal Yoga is an ideal form of exercise for women during pregnancy because it includes strengthening, stretching, relaxation, and breathing practice, and can be easily adapted for each trimester.
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Mother’s Day for Women Trying to Conceive
Mother's Day is supposed to be a happy celebration of life and dedication. For women who have been trying to conceive, however, the day can feel more like a smack in the face than a celebration.
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Breathing Practice – Nadi Shodhana (Channel Purifying Breath)
Nadi Shodhana (nah-deeh show-dah-nuh) is a yoga breathing practice which relaxes the body and mind and is said to balance the sides of the brain and purify the energy channels of the body. It is safe for pregnant women and women trying to conceive.
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Combating Worry: A Guide for Parents
Many parents describe feeling overwhelmed with a sense of worry. Left unchecked this can lead to sleep disturbance, depression, lack of focus, health and relationship problems and seriously affect your bonding with your child.
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2008-8: Stress in Pregnancy Linked to Schizophrenia in Child
Pregnancy is quite a crucial time for the mother as well as the growing baby. It's well-known fact that mothers during this time should be taken well care of, physically as well mentally, for if this is not done, it can adversely affect the health of the unborn child.
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How to Reduce Stress at Work While Pregnant
Stress is part of work and home life. There is no way to avoid stress altogether, but there are ways of minimizing stress and the effect of stress on pregnancy, especially in a work setting.
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Turn to Yoga During Pregnancy for Less Stress
Pregnancy can be one of the most joy-filled stages of life but many women are too stressed out to enjoy it to its fullest. Many doctors suggest yoga to their anxiety-ridden pregnant patients.
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How Reducing Stress Helps Improve Fertility
Stress plays a huge effect on people's overall health. Besides that, it has been proven that a woman's stress levels can play a big role in conceiving a child as well as in the development of the child if she is already pregnant.
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Stillbirth Risk Increases with Stressful Pregnancy
The impact of stress on health and well-being is widely reported in medical literature. Information collected from the National Institutes of Health suggests stress may be to blame for stillbirth.
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Childbirth: Aromatherapy for Pain Management
One of the alternative techniques you can use for the management of pain during labor is aromatherapy. Aromatherapy can be a great way to reduce the amount of stress you're experiencing.
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Prenatal Yoga - Warrior II (Virabhadrasana II)
Warrior II, like Warrior I, is a challenging all-over body strengthener used in prenatal and non-prenatal yoga. Warrior II is also a deep hip and upper body opener and has been said to alleviate backaches during pregnancy to increase fertility.
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Prenatal Yoga - Warrior I (Virabhadrasana I)
Warrior I is a strengthening, stretching, and even a bit of a balancing pose, that can inspire confidence and power in its practitioner. Practice Warrior I after warming up your body, during the higher intensity portion of your yoga workout.
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What do I Need to Practice Yoga?
All you need to practice yoga is a little bit of floor space and a little bit of time.
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Do I Need to be Flexible To Do Yoga?
Anyone can do yoga whether they are flexible or not. The most important thing about practicing yoga is that it feels good for your individual body.
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Is Yoga Safe For my Baby?
Yoga is absolutely safe for your baby. While yoga in general can range from a gentle relaxation to a rigorous heart-pumping work out, prenatal yoga is specifically designed to feel good for mother and not harm growing baby.
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Breath and Breathing
Breath is the most important element of a yoga practice. It allows us to move deeper into a pose, get through a difficult one, and move gracefully from one pose to another. Our breath can have this same guiding and transformative power in our daily lives.
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Prenatal/Restorative Yoga - Child’s Pose (Garbhasana)
Child's pose (garbhasana) is a great hip opener and spine lengthener. It can be very relaxing and grounding
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Restorative Yoga – Legs Up the Wall Pose (Viparita Karani)
Leg's Up the Wall Pose (Viparita Karani) in restorative yoga is known in yoga as an 'inversion,' or upside-down pose where your heart is above your head.
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Prenatal Yoga - What Is It?
Prenatal yoga is a physical activity that can be everything from strengthening and stretching to relaxing and meditative.
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Introduction to Prenatal Yoga
At the very foundation of yoga practice are some truly transformative and
sometimes even life changing techniques that can help people maximize your physical and mental health, and reduce stress.
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Cell Aging Linked to Stress During Pregnancy
Children born to women experiencing extreme trauma or traumatic life changes during pregnancy are affected on a cellular level.
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Restorative Prenatal Yoga
Restorative yoga, which consists of supported relaxation postures held for a prolonged period of time, provides the body and mind with a designated time for healing, rest, and integration.
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Restorative Yoga - Reclined Bound Angle Pose
Reclined bound angle pose is a restorative version of the bound angle
pose. The benefits of the pose include hip and chest opening, low back
release, and relaxation.
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Breathing Practice – Ujjayi Pranayama
Ujjayi Pranayama (Ocean Sounding or Victorious Breath) breath is commonly used throughout yoga classes and practices. It is used to calm the body and mind, heat the body internally to permit fluid movement and stretching, as well as provide a meditational focal point during the practice for you and those around you.
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Restorative Yoga: Seated Wide-Legged Forward Fold
The seated wide-legged forward fold opens the hips, and stretches the
back and thighs. The supported (restorative) version, is less intense
than a regular wide-legged forward fold, and allows pregnant women to do
the pose without having to hold up their back.
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Benefits of Pilates During Pregnancy
Pilates can be a wonderful way to prepare for birth. “A Pilates workout is one of the best ways to get that full body circulation going, particularly around your vital organs where you need it..."
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Prenatal Yoga – Cat/Cow Stretches
The cat/cow stretches are perfect for warming up the body and creating
length and mobility in the spine. The poses can be used on their own to
alleviate back strain or pain, as well as in preparation for a yoga
posture (asana) practice.
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Prenatal Yoga – Chair Pose (Utkatasana)
Chair pose is a challenging leg and back strengthening pose. As its name
indicates, the position of the practitioner is like that of sitting in a
chair. In early pregnancy this pose is excellent for strengthening the
legs in preparation for the extra weight they will soon need to carry.
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Prenatal Yoga – Hip-opening Squat (Malasana)
Use this hip-opening squat during your pregnancy to release tension
throughout the hips, lower back, and ankles. The pose can be an intense
opener, or also more of a passive one, supported by props underneath
your seat.
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Prenatal Yoga - Mountain Pose (Tadasana)
Mountain pose is a foundational yoga pose great for centering, balancing, aligning, and strengthening your body.
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Prenatal Yoga – Cobbler’s Pose (Baddha Konasana)
This version of cobbler's pose is different from its restorativecounterpart as it is done from a seated, not reclined, position.
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Prenatal Yoga – Downward Facing Dog (Adho Mukha Svanasana)
Downward facing dog is frequently used in a yoga class as a resting or transitional pose in which to hold and breathe. It strengthens the arms back and shoulders, lengthens the spine and stretches the backs of the legs.
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Prenatal Yoga - Final Resting Pose (Savasana)
Final resting pose (corpse pose) is the ultimate relaxation pose ' lying flat on your back, with or without props, to ensure maximum comfort.
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Saunas During Pregnancy
The National Institutes of Health recommends that pregnant women limit sauna use during pregnancy. Increasing body temperature above 100 degrees can increase the risk of fetal complications.
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Prenatal Yoga - Spinal Movements in Table Top Position
This series of stretches is a great way to begin your practice and create length and motion in your spine. The movements can help you to warm your body in preparation for deeper stretching, and to become aware of your breath.
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How to Deal with Irregular Periods in 12 Steps
Irregular periods can signify an impediment to getting pregnant. Follow our 12-step program to deal with this problem:
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Smile: Being Happy Leads to a Healthier Pregnancy
When it comes to having the healthiest pregnancy of all, maybe you need
to start with a mental check-up and a course of relaxation and smiles.
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