If you are like most women when you are pregnant, you want to spend a little extra time on yourself.
This might include eating healthier, getting a prenatal massage, or cuddling up with your pregnancy journal.
While you are doing your best to successfully grow your little bundle of joy, why not expand your knowledge of all things pregnancy, delivery, and parenting while you’re at it?
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When it comes to conceiving a baby, the mechanics seem pretty straight forward (you know what I’m talking about).
However, many women and their partners struggle with making that happen.
They wait month after month for a period to not show up and checking pregnancy tests for those two telltale lines.
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Labor and delivery, while painful, can be one of the most joyous moments of your life.
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As pregnant mothers, we all have good intentions of keeping track of everything but even during pregnancy life is still busy.
You know, pregnancy brain and all!
Between remembering when appointments are and what to buy in preparation for the baby, the mere thought of recording the actual experience of pregnancy doesn’t occur to us.
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Your body goes through many changes when you become pregnant to help nourish and protect your baby.
You gain weight, the amount of blood in your body increases, you form a placenta (which is another organ, how amazing!), and form a mucus plug.
But before we get into talking about losing your mucus plug, let’s look at what the actual purpose of the mucus plug is and what its role plays in your pregnancy.
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Elna is a mom to twins who blogs and writes for a living. She loves all things mom. While she’s not blogging, you can find Elna meal planning, organizing and helping other moms in her Facebook group, Ready Set Blog for Traffic (From Mom to Mompreneur). →