For all the couples who plan for a baby and the pregnancy occurs immediately thereafter, pregnancy will seem like a natural process, a given for healthy couples. You get married, then plan for a baby, the baby comes and voila! It is a perfect family!
But there are couples who have to get medical assistance, for existing health issues or for health issues they had earlier been unaware of. And sometimes they have to undergo tests and screenings, simply to identify why there is a delay in pregnancy. And when all this occurs, they try to delve into the how and what of pregnancy and parenthood. Internet these days, has made it easier for us to get any information we want. But the more you find out, the less you know.
When you try to understand how conception occurs, how a pregnancy is sustained, how many health and lifestyle factors can effect pregnancy - you begin to realize that Pregnancy is nothing short of a miracle. Indeed, sometimes perfectly healthy couples may find it difficult to have a baby, while someone ill or under terrible stress, can have a perfectly healthy baby. It is in fact a miracle, God's blessing or the hand of fate - whichever way you like to look at it.
And getting pregnant is just the first step, once a woman is pregnant, through all the changes occurring in her body, her lifestyle, her life - she has the responsibility to sustain the child within her for 9 months taking utmost care all the way. Of course, these changes affect the entire family, the would be father too. But the greatest impact is on the woman nurturing the womb.
She will get loads of advice and suggestions; some good, some conflicting, some simply difficult to follow. She cannot eat anything she wants as much as she wants. The medicines, cosmetics, even the shampoos she has been regularly using, may not be suitable during pregnancy. She cannot travel like she used to. She doesn't even look like she used to. And to top it all, she might not feel like she used to, there is a surge of emotions and thoughts that she had been blissfully unaware of earlier.
If she chooses to, there are a host of things that she can worry about - about the health of the baby, about her health, the financial situation, the baby's future - everything comes crowding in. But eventually she will realize that like the event of getting pregnant, for everything else thereafter she has to be positive and put her faith in God.
Because parenthood brings responsibility, in a way that you had never imagined and changes in your life that you never fully anticipated. It is a joy, one which is to be savoured every minute of this lifelong journey which has only just begun with pregnancy. Remember that it is a miracle, and you will need every ounce of your strength and faith to make it through. Wish you all a happy parenthood.
But there are couples who have to get medical assistance, for existing health issues or for health issues they had earlier been unaware of. And sometimes they have to undergo tests and screenings, simply to identify why there is a delay in pregnancy. And when all this occurs, they try to delve into the how and what of pregnancy and parenthood. Internet these days, has made it easier for us to get any information we want. But the more you find out, the less you know.
When you try to understand how conception occurs, how a pregnancy is sustained, how many health and lifestyle factors can effect pregnancy - you begin to realize that Pregnancy is nothing short of a miracle. Indeed, sometimes perfectly healthy couples may find it difficult to have a baby, while someone ill or under terrible stress, can have a perfectly healthy baby. It is in fact a miracle, God's blessing or the hand of fate - whichever way you like to look at it.
And getting pregnant is just the first step, once a woman is pregnant, through all the changes occurring in her body, her lifestyle, her life - she has the responsibility to sustain the child within her for 9 months taking utmost care all the way. Of course, these changes affect the entire family, the would be father too. But the greatest impact is on the woman nurturing the womb.
She will get loads of advice and suggestions; some good, some conflicting, some simply difficult to follow. She cannot eat anything she wants as much as she wants. The medicines, cosmetics, even the shampoos she has been regularly using, may not be suitable during pregnancy. She cannot travel like she used to. She doesn't even look like she used to. And to top it all, she might not feel like she used to, there is a surge of emotions and thoughts that she had been blissfully unaware of earlier.
If she chooses to, there are a host of things that she can worry about - about the health of the baby, about her health, the financial situation, the baby's future - everything comes crowding in. But eventually she will realize that like the event of getting pregnant, for everything else thereafter she has to be positive and put her faith in God.
Because parenthood brings responsibility, in a way that you had never imagined and changes in your life that you never fully anticipated. It is a joy, one which is to be savoured every minute of this lifelong journey which has only just begun with pregnancy. Remember that it is a miracle, and you will need every ounce of your strength and faith to make it through. Wish you all a happy parenthood.
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