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A healthy baby is the product of the mother’s good nutritional habits before and during pregnancy. Your baby is looking to you for everything, including the vitamins and nutrients necessary to grow properly. However eating for two doesn’t mean you should eat twice as much food as you did before you became pregnant.
The delicate apple-like scent of camomile has attracted herbalists and healers to investigate this simple herb. As a skin healer it has proven to be very effective. Greeks and Romans would add a strong infusion to bath water as it not only healed and soothed the skin but the aromatic oils act as a gentle sedative. The cosmetic industry has benefited from the properties of this herb. The extracted oil soothes and softens rough and dry skin and helps prevent those tiny lines that start to appear around the eyes as the skin loses its elasticity.
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In a contraction, the smooth muscle of the upper uterus contracts, pushing the baby downward and thinning the bottom of the uterus and the cervix. Contractions also help circulate blood and supply your baby with oxygen.
The upper part of your uterus is called the fundus. This muscle has been expanding throughout pregnancy to accommodate the growing fetus, and contracts forcefully at the end of pregnancy to deliver your baby. The fundus shortens with each contraction, closing and becoming harder as labor progresses. This hardening pushes the baby down in the uterus, and ultimately through the cervix and the birth canal.