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The wish of every woman is to have a healthy, normal, full term pregnancy, give birth to a healthy, normal birth-weight baby and provide good infant care to her newborn. Health care in correspondence to individuality Health care varies from person to person according to age, sex, race, etc., The characteristics of health care are summarized as follows: Health care during pregnancy and breast feeding: Health care in pregnant women is most important, very particularly in nutrition, life style, hygiene, prenatal training, emotional attitude, medication and sexual life, especially, sexual life should be restrained. Be cautious with medication in pregnant women, especially in the first three months, because drugs including herbs and herbal products may have side effects on the cerebral nervous system of fetus. It is also necessary to do proper exercise and outdoor activities, beneficial to regulation of qi and blood.   Health care during the puerperium and breast feeding period is impor...

Birth Day Surprises Things That Will Come Out of Your Body So you've survived the mood swings and the hemorrhoids, and you think your surprises are over. Guess again — the day you give birth will probably hold the biggest surprises of all. Only 1 in 10 mothers' water breaks before labor contractions begin. Some women never experience it — a doctor may need to rupture the amniotic sac (if the cervix is already dilated) when they arrive at the hospital. How much water can you expect? For a full-term baby, there are normally about 2.1 to 5.9 cups of amniotic fluid. Some women may feel an intense urge to urinate that leads to a gush of fluid when their waters break. Others may have only a trickling sensation down their leg because the baby's head acts like a stopper to prevent most of the fluid from leaking out. In any case, amniotic fluid is generally sweet-smelling and pale or colorless and is replaced by your body every 3 hours, so don't be surprised if you contin...