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I believe that anything can be right if we can express that in a right way! Then how can we neglect to express our feelings to say “I Am going to have a Baby”. I remember when I was expecting, I wanted to climb up “Eiffel Tower” and scream “I am expecting” well couldn’t do that of course!! But yes there was something that I could do and that too was enough to express my emotions. Are you confused how to reveal your pregnancy to your partner?  Then here I am sharing my favorite way to announce “I Am Pregnant”:

Whenever I think to surprise my husband, I prefer to start with food as I believe men are food lover. So here you go with a magical dinner date:

1.  Most of the time I prefer to cook, not because I like to cook but because I feel compare to restaurant we can have better ambiance (of our choice) at home. If cooking is not your cup of tea you can order food from outside.
2. Cook or order the dishes start with baby like baby corn, baby potato, baby tomato etc. Don’t forget to use baby plates (small plates) to serve it.
3. Choose table cover which has prints of baby or baby items, easily available in any party store or online and economic too.
4. Stick a collage of baby photos on the wall of your dining room. Even a big photo can work and if you will ask my choice I will say stick kids plates (which are really available in pretty much good design).
5. Decorate your chair and table border with kid’s clothes or kid’s items.
6. Find baby names using a combination of both parent name (For example if parents name are “RUshi” and “megHA” you can get “RUHA”). Write down couple of them on decorative paper and use it to wrap chocolates. Make it as an attraction of table.
7. Don’t forget to wear baby pink clothes with baby pink nail police and lipstick. Trust me you will look like a baby doll in this get up.

 And now be ready to surprise your hubby with a sparkling smile and wait your hubby to guess the occasion.

 Life is to Live lively and so I feel “we should capture as much fun and memory as we can from every single moment” And pregnancy gives us all the reasons to enjoy and celebrate our days………..

Have a wonderful beginning would be mummy!!!

Permanent solutions:

Set the example: Discipline comes with understanding and understanding comes from observation. Kids love to observe you, family, friends and surrounding environment. And when they find something comfortable they absorb it and try to implement it. And so if you want to teach your kids discipline (why they should not scream or manners), first thing you should do is show them how good you are; how good people are; how nicely we talk to people and how nicely we talk to them. Encourage good behavior by adopting good things.

For examples – When there is a time to wait, Be patient. Don’t break queue. Or when you don’t get something be sad but don’t over react. When they will see “How you deal with these things”, they will learn how to cope up with their own dislikes.

Know your kids: All the kids are different and all the kids have their own likes and dislikes, once you know what your kids like and what not it will be easy to get idea of why and when your kids scream and how can you stop it. Many kids are quite in car but show tantrums in mall; many are quite in movie but scream while walk; many are quite at home but scream when it’s time to school. Many are quite alone but scream when surrounded by people and vice versa. What I mean to say is observe your kids and find out their comfort and discomfort zone. Make a list of it. This doesn’t mean you should not do dislike or discomforting things, after all kids have to learn to deal with dislikes also but try to understand and make them little bit comfortable in it. This will help you in: 1.When you know why and when your kids will cry, you can be prepared with solutions. 2. When you are ready with the solutions, you can be calm. 3. When you are under control, they think you understand them so they calm down easily. 4. When you can pretend the situation before it really happens, you can prepare them for little discomfort. 5. When your kids are aware of little discomfort, it would be easy for them to find their interest in those situations too.

Help them to find comfort in discomfort: When you know it is not going to happening for your kids, give them idea of where are you going and what is the interesting part of it. For example: my little daughter is not much comfortable with travelling, so if we need to go for long drive, I will talk to her like “hey how about garden – a big new garden full of roses and butterflies?” (I always like to get pre-idea of places from internet) And when she will say yes, I will say “but it’s really far away. We need to seat in a car for 100 mins but you can take your doll with you and books too. You know we may get time to read 3 stories!!! Isn’t it fun? So are you ready to visit beautiful garden?

Reserve mummy & baby time : Reserve time for you and your kids once in a day for at least 10 to 15 mins (must not exceed than 30 mins). Talk about what do you like and what not in this fresh time. As well as ask their likes and dislikes. This is the time when you and your kids can talk and enjoy without any disturbance. When you two are there, your kids can talk freely about everything and so you can get idea of their views. At the same time they know this is the time when you will listen to them so they too will listen to you and try to understand you.

Rehearse game at home: Try calm down games at home not too often or else they will lose their interest and not rarely or else they will forget it.

Praise for good: Don’t forget to admire your kids even for small things. Like wow you colored this nicely next time show me even better. Reward them for good behavior with good complement or star or cookies. For example:  If your kid has waited for her turn, tell her you have been so patient so let’s have a treat for you now.

Introduce Take – Away Technique: Reward is always good but when kids are above 3 years its good time to introduce take-away. Use reward for really good thing and take away for discipline. It’s like when your kid understands that they should not hit anyone and if they do, use take away. Take away means they won’t get their favorite thing for sometimes (15 to 30 mins). It can be their favorite doll or most favorite thing of that time. It’s kind of soft punishment.

Motivate with story: Story is the best way to teach them everything. Believe me or not Kids listen to two things: 1. Their Teacher and 2. Books so utilize it as much as you can.

Never change your mind: Once you say no that means no only in all the condition. Because when you change your decision depends on situations, they get confused and can’t understand you. So be consistent.

Perfect age to teach discipline is 2 to 4 years as at this age they can easily accept and learn new things and it will last for long time may be life time (if you are consistent).  But if you couldn’t do at that time then no need to worry. Best thing with the kids is there is never late. Start understanding your kids today and make them understand you by tomorrow!

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When something new happens to your body, your body reacts and that is known as signs or symptoms. Sometimes your body reacts so early and sometimes your body doesn’t react much, this depends on individuals. Lots of hormonal changes occur during Pregnancy and so when you conceive, your body tells you that by one way or another. The reminder could be as early as a week or as late as 3 to 4 months (especially when your periods are not regular). Here I will discuss most common signs / symptoms where your chances of pregnancy are high or in simple words I can say these are the signs that say “You Are Pregnant.”

1.  Lower abdominal pain: You may feel little pain in your lower abdominal while working, cooking or cleaning. And if you will lay down for 10-15 mins it will go. This is on and off pain. If you will continue your work it will increase and if you will take rest it will go. Solution is take rest whenever you feel pain is going to start. Don’t wait to reach it at its highest. As soon as you will take rest as soon as it will go.
2. Tender or darker breast: Most common and initial sign is sore breast. You may feel little tenderness and if you check your breast, their color seems darker. This is the sign that your breast are getting ready for the new phase.
3.  Dizziness or fainting : This may sounds little bit filmy but trust me this happens too. The reason is low blood pressure or low sugar level which is very common during pregnancy. Nothing much to do just eat well and take rest. This won’t persist longer.
4. Weakness: If you think nothing has changed in your routine and you are perfectly healthy and still feeling tired or weak then it’s an initial stage of your pregnancy. No need to worry, what you need to do is just “Slow Down” and things will be settled soon.
5.  Morning sickness : You may feel nausea or vomits in the morning or in afternoon or in the evening. Bad thing is “its called morning sickness but can be at any time of the day!” You may feel strong smell of food even if you are not cooking and few things you just can’t cook or you just can’t eat. This is very common issue for all the would be mummy and the solution is time. Avoid cooking or eating those dishes for some times. Don’t worry this won’t last more than 2 to 3 months.
6.  Frequent urination: If you notice, your frequency of urination is increased especially after evening. You may wake up at night for pee which is unlike you and there may be little difficulty in controlling, you want to go means you have to go. You may feel how suddenly my bladder becomes so small!!! Well nothing to worry just take a deep breath and accept the change.
7.  Mood swing: This is the most difficult thing to handle. You may be very happy and somehow you hear a word from your husband (which of course not new for you) but you blast!!! A simple small mistake of your husband (or friends or colleagues or relatives) is enough to make you hurt or even cry and at the same time a normal gesture of your husband (or friends or colleagues or relatives) can make you happy really very very happy…..Everything  for you is extreme like very happy very excited very bored very sad………I know difficult to handle but you have to deal with this. You are very emotional at this stage and any one anywhere can hurt you or heal you. What you need to do is 1. Accept it. 2. Don’t regret it’s normal. 3. Read books or articles on pregnancy. 4. Talk to your partner and friends about it. 5. Try some meditation or relaxing techniques. 
8.  Craving for specific food: you may have a dream of eating chocolate cake at 1 AM in the morning and you wake up by feeling like I want to eat chocolate cake right now!!! Well little childish but that happens. During day time also your taste is changed. You may like to eat the things which you never had before just because that’s not your choice or you may leave to eat your favorite dishes. Well that’s what your body demands. Feed your body whatever and whenever it asks and slowly it will go. Very common especially in first 3 months of pregnancy after that it will settle down slowly. Will come again in last month of pregnancy. Enjoy this as this is the time to treat yourself.
9. You may miss your Period: This is very important part of pregnancy but pregnancy is not the only reason of delay or miss in cycle. As well as even though you are pregnant there may be case that you are getting your period (minimum discharge or may be normal one) don’t forget to visit your gynecologist in this case.
10. Positive pregnancy test: This is the test which confirms your pregnancy. Easily available in any medical stores as well as very comfortable. Most of the times accurate too. If it shows “you are pregnant” Don’t forget to visit a doctor.

It seems you are having really bad time, humm but trust me these are just timely (on and off) things. Most of the things will be in place after your first trimester. Accept the change and enjoy it. Every change has its own pros and cons once you will learn how to deal with these small things (and I am sure you will ) you will be ready for something exciting  really really exciting!!!!!!!!!!

Well these are just symptoms; nothing is confirmed without medical checkups.

Congratulations would be mummy!!!!!!