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How to Treat Nausea During Pregnancy

Spending your days concentrating on keeping your food in your stomach and never venturing far from a bathroom is probably not how you envisioned welcoming the news of a new baby. The words “morning sickness” do not do justice to the pregnancy nausea suffered by many women. First, nausea can happen during any of the 24 hours in a day. Some only experience mild sickness infrequently during the first few weeks, which miraculously vanishes at the end of the first trimester as all the pregnancy books say it should. Others spend so much time hanging over a toilet that they consider just moving into the bathroom and do not enjoy relief at the three-month mark. Several treatments are recommended by medical professionals, but the effectiveness varies by individual.

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5 Tips for Getting Your Toddler to Nap

Sometimes getting a toddler to go down for their afternoon nap can be trying and exhausting. Ive run into this recently with my 2 year old son. He has been in a bed for about 5 months and over that 5 month period there are days when I dont need to go to the gym because Ive gone up and down our stairs 20 times to tell him to get back into bed. But I must say this happens fairly infrequently because I follow the steps below:<