What you need to know at the “Development – Let’s make a baby” stage of your (pre-)parenthood.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Our takeaways: During pregnancy, the volume and the intensity of expectations often involuntarily skyrocket, from ourselves or others. How we manage our expectations of others’ expectations matters because we have no control over what others expect. Do your own stakeholder analysis using the Interest-Influence Grid, so that you can prepare Read more…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Our takeaways: COVID-19 may have a say in your ovulation timing. Ovulation tests can’t guarantee a pregnancy, but they can help you predict what your fertile days are with higher confidence given the uncertainties presented by the bigger environment. Different manufacturers of LH tests have very different recommendations on the best Read more…
Reading Time: 7 minutes Sadly…they are real! BUT here’s what you can do Our takeaways: TTC (Trying to Conceive) blues are as real but not as well recognized as baby blues. The waiting game TTC blues symptoms To cope with TTC blues or prevent it, you can Equip yourself with TTC knowledge so that Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Our takeaways: A pregnancy lifestyle vision board helps parents-to-be envision their lifestyles during pregnancy, foresee changes, and adapt & adjust in advance. It also serves as a collection of the knowledge you’ve learned, the decisions you’ve made, and the guardrails that you will mostly stick to when you actually get Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our takeaways: Many Asian vegetables are rich in folate/folic acid, which can expand your folate intake food sources or provide alternatives for raw veggie intolerant people. Flowering might impact the folate richness of the same vegetable (i.e: choy sum). If there’s no Asian stores around, you might be able to Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Our takeaways: While folic acid is important, don’t forget about other pregnancy vitamins and minerals such as calcium, choline, iron, omega-3 and vitamin D for healthy baby AND mom! Choline plays a role in your fetus’s brain development. It’s important to get choline from your diet because it is not Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Our takeaway: Timing for making a baby: for an average 28-day menstrual cycle, the baby-making sex(es) need to happen during Day 9 to Day 14 from the start date of your period. There are other measures available to time the window more specifically to your situation. Scientifically, there’s no evidence Read more…