Beautiful and Pregnant!
Congratulations! Your time to shine
by Susan Lawler, R.N.
Pregnancy is a celebration of motherhood. It is a time in a woman’s life that deserves respect. Gone are the days when women were confined during their pregnancy, shrouded in fear and mystery. Pregnancy is a wonderful time to pamper yourself with body and facial treatments. Both can enhance feelings of well-being, support normal physiological adaptations, and alleviate many of the discomforts common during pregnancy. If you are experiencing a normal pregnancy under the care of a physician, you need take only a few precautions to safely enjoy you at-home spa experience. | What do we need to know?
In general stay hydrated. If any treatment causes discomfort, be sensible and stop. Always sample the feel and scent of a product before using it, as a pregnant woman’s senses are often more acute. You may find that usually benign scents are now overwhelming.
Best advise...
Facials are wonderful, although you should avoid facial peels and microdermabrasion because of the facial-skin sensitivity and hyper pigmentation that goes along with pregnancy. And as what doctors would say, be in the know if you feel uncomfortable, then always choose to stop what ever it is you are doing.
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Delish Massages!
Hmmm... the perfect way to relax!
Massages can do much to reduce discomforts such as a backache, shoulder and neck strain, and edema. Light massages is best as pregnant women are very sensitive to touch due to the increase in blood volume and blood vessels.
As it is, being pregnant is also a great opportunity to pamper yourself.
As it is, being pregnant is also a great opportunity to pamper yourself.
Body scrub for glowing skin
For the first three (3) months, a good scrubbing can actually help improve circulation, as during this time, your poor heart will be working twice as hard as usual, pumping more than seven quarts of blood per minute to ensure you and your baby are healthy.
Try Sweet Surrender massage cocktails for Mommies concoction, it is a natural sugar body scrub that will give you a total body scrub, and as you rinse of the scrub, you will emerge smelling fabulous with skin just glowing.
Try Sweet Surrender massage cocktails for Mommies concoction, it is a natural sugar body scrub that will give you a total body scrub, and as you rinse of the scrub, you will emerge smelling fabulous with skin just glowing.
Up next on our Feature page on Beautiful and pregnant: How to lessen nausea, staying fit, keeping your face baby soft and smooth... so please stay tuned next week!
