Learn About Your Body
Now that you're well on your way, check out the tools we have for you to learn about what's going on inside you. From keeping a journal to reading our articles, keeping track of your progress day-to-day with our pregnancy calendar and fetal development pages, you can't go wrong.
• Follow baby's changes through the second and third trimesters.
• Begin your own pregnancy journal
• Browse selection of pregnancy articles
• Check out the Pregnancy Calendar
• View an overview of fetal development
• Find out when you'll start to show
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Health Care Decisions
What are your options? What is the right decision for you? What kinds of tests will you go through? Are all those tests necessary? What's safe to take when you're pregnant? Get answers to these questions and more.
• Look at various options -- provider and location
• Track your pregnancy with our prenatal record
• Learn about Rh factor
• Get information on Strep B and other complications
• Wondering what is safe to take? Safe to do?
• More questions? Ask one of our experts
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Fitness & Nutrition During Pregnancy
Is it safe to exercise while I'm pregnant? Why is it important that I quit smoking? What foods give me the best nutrition for my baby? Can I still run when I am pretty far along? Fitness and Nutrition can be tricky, but you don't have to get overwhelmed. Read our collection of articles to empower yourself.
• Learn the importance of continuing your exercise routine
• Drop by the Stop Smoking Board for help quitting
• Learn about optimal nutrition for you and baby
• Learn which activities are safe during pregnancy
• Discuss concerns with the fitness and nutrition expert
• Browse our video library for nutrition and fitness
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Discomfort and complications
Having pregnancy discomforts is never fun. Whether it is aches and pains or worse, there are solutions. Complications also have a way of sneaking in when least expected or wanted. What are these discomforts and complications? Read on! Discover what you can do to prevent them or take care of the ones you might have.
• Learn safe ways to pamper yourself
• Ease that heartburn!
• Enjoy the benefits of a pregnancy massage
• Find peer-to-peer support on your birthboard
• Control gestational diabetes
• Browse the video section
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Choices: Looking Ahead
Whether you're in the second or third trimester now is the time to look ahead. If you haven't already, you should be looking for pediatricians and planning your maternity leave. Birth plans are also important as is babyproofing your house. Getting ready for baby should be fun and not a chore. You're bringing in a new person to your home - make it welcoming!
• Choose a doctor for your baby
• Plan your maternity leave
• Put together a birthplan
• Babyproof your house
• Consider the many choices you'll make for your baby
• See what moms agree baby needs
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Just for Fun
There are so many tools, projects and products that make pregnancy fun. Whether it is listening to your baby's heartbeat, searching for names, taking photos or even making a belly cast of your pregnant belly as a keepsake, this should be a loving time for yourself. Talk to others, get tips and take the time to daydream about your baby shower if you're going to have one!
• Rent a Sweet Beats Digital Fetal Doppler
• Continue the search for that special name
• Make a keepsake pregnancy belly casting
• Get daily tips from our pregnancy calendar
• Find support in our forums and chat
• And then daydream about your babyshower
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Helpful Tools
We have a lot of tools to help you along your journey! Sign up on the main site so you can use our pregnancy calendar. Read and gaze at the amazing pictures on our Fetal Development pages. Looking for that elusive baby name? Try our baby name database. We have hundreds of pregnancy videos to watch and even a printable prenatal record to take with you when you have a doctor's or midwife appointment.
• Follow your progress on the pregnancy calendar
• See second trimester fetal development
• Check out possible names
• Learn more about your pregnancy with our video library
• Open a Baby Register and start your wishlist
• Keep track of appointments with our printable prenatal record
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When Pregnancy Fails
Sometimes the end result is not what we expected or desired. Loss of a pregnancy is an extremely painful experience, but one that many of us experience. Please know that you are not alone. Here at Pregnancy.org, we hope that you will find provisions that aid in coping and lead to eventual healing.
• Get answers to your pregnancy loss questions
• Ask our emotional crisis experts about coping
• Read through helpful articles
• Find support in our forums and chat
• Learn ways to survive the holidays after a loss
• Add your baby to the memorial wall
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