GETTING PREGNANT – Page 8 – Pregnant Magazine

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Hair chemicals, will they harm your unborn baby?

What’s forbidden and what’s not while you are pregnant Most women enjoy some form of hair and beauty habit prior to pregnancy. It may be having highlights, colour or even a perm. Highlighting is a hair colouring technique where the artificial hair colour is brushed onto strands of hair rather than being painted onto the scalp.…

Bebe Cool and Zuena celebrate second baby

This is a legacy edition story. True stories of past pregnancies in yester days (or years), as published in Pregnant Magazine. Bebe Cool and Zuena celebrate second baby When Zuena Kirema met Uganda’s reggae dancehall king Moses Ssali – better known as Bebe Cool—on 25 January 2002, she thought he was out for some fun…

‘Everything about my pregnancy has been big’

My last scan reveled the most content-looking baby ever Big and getting BIGGER! That in a nutshell, defines my second pregnancy. When I asked my husband to point out something unique about this pregnancy he said; ‘Bigger!’ One of the BIG challenges is Sasha my first born son, who is two-and-a-half-years old. He has always been…

Vacuum delivery

What It Means For You and Your Baby A vacuum delivery is a modified normal delivery where uterine pressure that expels the baby is supplemented with a vacuum extractor. This equipment applies pressure on the head resulting in a pulling effect, and helps to expel the baby from the mother’s birth canal. It is as…

Shy Moments 3

It was during a performance at a function I had been invited to. There were dignitaries at the event and I had worn designer pregnant mum trousers for the stage show. The trousers felt very comfortable and I thought they fitted well. My music can get vigorous and on this occasion I had to move…

Getting ready for vacuum delivery

Many women have had problem-free pregnancies, only for complications to emerge on the last leg of the race-during delivery. Sandra narrates her experience, which saw her first baby unexpectedly delivered by vacuum extraction, and says; ‘I think if you do not know much about vacuum delivery, there is nothing like getting ready for it, as…

Coping with post-delivery weight

TERRY ANNE CHEBET It is very easy to gain excess weight during pregnancy and after birth. After delivery, my mother-in-law fed me on all types of foodstuffs including the traditional njahi (black beans) and porridge. For the first three months I ate a lot and gained so much weight! Pregnancy was somewhat ‘depressing’. I used…

Traveling while pregnant — How safe is it?

Travelling while pregnant can make you feel like a toddler! You’ll need to stick to your nap schedule. Also pack lots of extra snacks, and know where (your) potty is at all times, as Emma Odaba finds out. To travel or not to, is a significant decision for many pregnant women. Especially where the distance is…

Stretchmarks… ‘Help’!

They are ugly, sneaky and bothersome. They take away confidence and it takes a lifetime to get rid of them. What therefore should a woman do to keep stretch marks at bay? NOBODY wants to develop stretch marks but when you are pregnant you know that along with nausea, fatigue, backache and frequent urination, stretch…