Hi, everybody.
I'm Melissa from CloudMom.com
This video is about week one of your pregnancy
Now, that's sort of a misnomer because at week
one of your pregnancy, you are effectively not pregnant
when you go to your doctor, when you become pregnant
and you try to assess the age of the fetus.
They will effectively ask you when was your last period?
And it's based on that date
that the length of your pregnancy will be established.
I have been filming a pregnancy week to week series.
I started this series when I was pregnant
with my sixth baby, Bracie, four weeks pregnant.
I took it to this 30 weeks at 30 weeks.
I unexpectedly gave birth to Bracy very prematurely,
which is a whole other story
that you can learn about if you watch My Baby Week
to Week series.
But anyway, I'm now completing the series
so I've gone back in time to week one
because I want to fill in
what you should be thinking about
if you would like to get pregnant.
How to go into pregnancy in the healthiest way you can.
So I'm going to fill in weeks one, two and three,
and then I'm going to go back and fill in weeks 30 to 42,
which is after the point at which I have my baby.
But I want the series to be complete.
For those of you who do become pregnant
and are lucky enough to see your baby through until full term,
since week
one is effectively the week of your last period,
the symptoms you will be facing are symptoms of your period,
cramps, back pain, bloating, that sort of thing.
You won't be experiencing
any particular pregnancy symptoms as of yet.
Hopefully you're following a very healthy diet
should you become pregnant, there will be certain
restrictions in terms
of what you can't eat, and there will also be foods
that you should really eat in order to stay healthy.
I'll be putting up recipes every week on my site on
www.cloudmom.com and I will be giving a lot of pieces of
advice when it comes to diet
because this is one of the ways to make sure
you have a very healthy pregnancy,
keep your weight under control, and this will help you greatly.
Also, during the postpartum state
OK, so with all that said, I want to give you guys some tips
when it comes to conception.
One way in which you can track ovulation
and try to conceive is tracking your body temperature.
A woman's basal body temperature indicate
when her body is about to ovulate,
your temperature will increase about half a degree
during this period of time.
If you want to track this,
take your temperature every morning right after you wake up.
Over the course of a month or two
and you'll
start to see a pattern plan to have sex starting two days
before ovulation
and one or two days after ovulation just once today.
Here's kind of a funny story when we were trying
to get pregnant with my first baby.
Headlee
I thought you were supposed to have sex
as many times a day as possible.
And I will say that although we started off
kind of excited at the idea
by the end, my husband was, like, exhausted.
Another thing that indicates ovulation
that you can use to try to get a sense of
when you should be having sex, if you want to
conceive is by tracking your cervical mucus,
you might find once a month that you have a sort of egg
white jelly like discharge that you find in your underwear.
Or panty liner.
This is, in effect, a sign of ovulation.
So try to notice on what day of your cycle
this happens and to start having sex once a day before
and after that
time to see if you can catch the moment of ovulation.
Another thing you can do,
and this is sort of a classic technique,
is to track your menstrual cycles.
Again, the ovulation predictor kit I think is really good.
You use this every morning.
You track the hormones in your urine.
When you start to see the sign coming
that your body is about to ovulate,
you have sex once a day until you've ovulated
and then once a day one or two days after that.
And this actually worked for me for my first baby.
If you're thinking
about becoming pregnant,
I would advise that you go make an appointment with your O.B.
Your O.B.
might really help you when it comes to suggesting
some positive lifestyle changes, such as reducing stress.
You want to make sure that if you're a smoker,
you're quitting smoking.
You want to make sure that you're not
drinking alcohol, that you're certainly not using any drugs.
You'll also want to think about going on a prenatal vitamin.
What kind of healthy foods you should be eating?
And it also just makes sense
to have a really good, thorough medical exam.
So anyway, if you think you're interested in becoming pregnant,
here's a quick checklist for you.
Record the first day of your period for seven months.
Begin taking prenatal vitamins.
Stop drinking alcohol.
Cut down on caffeine.
And stop smoking for sure.
And ask your doctor about any medications
you're taking to make sure that they're safe.
Thank you so much for tuning in for week one of your pregnancy.
I will see you back for week two.
I really appreciate it.
I hope you will choose to watch my whole series
because I go through a lot of the ups
and downs with my own pregnancy.
I really am so happy that you tuned in for the show
and I will see you next time.