Rub, Rub, Stretch, Stretch, Pat, Pat- Your Baby Loves It All!

That Thai massage making you feel ten years younger? Or how about that hot oil massage from the Ayurvedic and spa centers of Kerala? You'd go back for it every other day if you could, right? It's just the same way with your babies and a lot more beneficial too. Your baby care app should tell you just what your baby needs as a bath time massage routine!

Parenting App - BabyBerry

Here's What You Need to Know!

First off, track your baby's developmental progress using an app for newborns or a baby care app. Depending on the age of your baby and their weight and size (all of which can be tracked using a free parenting app); you can start following massage procedures right from the very first month of their life. Here are a few reasons why you should massage your baby and with what!

• Your primary bond with your baby is through touch. Massage somehow creates a more secure and intimate environment for you and your baby to bond. Your baby starts recognizing massage time as de-stressing with the primary caregiver, which is you, the mother.

• The same way we feel easy and terribly relaxed after a massage, your baby feels so too. It works your baby's brain into producing the happy enzyme, serotonin and reduces the amount of cortisol, the panic inducing enzyme in the baby's system.

• Massage also improves your baby's circulation. Smooth and easy blood flow guides the baby's overall muscle, motor and orthopedic development.

• Research has proven that babies, who are given massages regularly, are friendlier and more relaxed than babies who are not given any. Pick out fifteen minutes from your day and dedicate it to your baby's massage routine.

Here's What You Need to Do

• Depending on your baby's age, weight, and size, your baby care app should tell you when you can start with the massages. It is usually not encouraged in babies lesser than a month old.

• When you first start the massages, make sure it is without any oil, cream or massage gel since your baby's body is still very fragile from being brand new. Your parenting app will advice you on what best oil or gel you can use.

• Use naturally extracted oil with no fragrance for your baby's massage and that way, you're not exposing your baby to any allergens.

• Do not dedicate more than 15 minutes to your baby's massage. Let's face it; too much of a good thing is bad!

• Don’t stretch the baby out; instead use motion circles all over your baby with the tips of your fingers starting from the baby's neck. 

And So...

Hey moms, here is a cool parenting app called BabyBerry to guide you through their first few complicated months. Massage and bath time routines will be made easier with BabyBerry's help! And it helps your baby immensely and does a world of good!

Oops, My Water Broke- Your Guide to Labor

Oh yes! It’s that time! That moment when you bring that bundle of joy into the world! But do you know exactly when your body is ready? You've been furiously logging into your pregnancy calendar app every day. But, no pregnancy app can tell you exactly when your labor starts, except for the general guidelines to dealing with it. BabyBerry, of course offers a better insight, so make this your pregnancy buddy. But through labor, you'll have this article guiding you.

Pregnancy Tracker App - BabyBerry

How Do I Know It's Time?

Once you enter your third trimester, your body starts showing signs that your baby is ready to exit the comforts of your womb. By the eighth month, you'll slowly start feeling the pressure of your baby's on your pelvis making bathroom visits more frequent. This is because your baby is getting in position to dive into the world! Your pregnancy tracker app should tell you this, but also that your third trimester preparation and the way your body is, is because your whole body is loosening up for labor. 

Here are a few signs you can expect:

• Third trimester has given you the loosies, but on the day of your labor, your body experiences diarrhea like nothing else. Grab your pregnancy tracker app and log these details in. It could tell you when it's time.

• There's a tiny block bridge called the mucous plug that looks exactly like mucous that pops out right before you get into labor. During your last month, make sure you look out for this.

• You start expelling vaginal discharge that looks and feels different from the other times. Be mindful of it and look it up on any pregnancy app.

• Your water breaks and it is all around you. Now you can know for sure that you're in labor!

• You start experiencing contractions, one more painful than the other. You need to be mindful of this too, although there's no way of escaping this.

And Now For the Final Say

Congratulations mom! it is time to gear up for the final step, you are about to give birth! And then comes the next, longer most important chapter, childrearing. Your little bundle has arrived and you want nothing more than to admire and kiss it all-day long. 

Remember, it doesn't end with the delivery. So get yourself every baby care app, free parenting app, app for newborns that is in the Appstore or online so as to now focus on baby care!

Feeling Blue When Everything Is New- Your Guide to Pregnancy Blues

You're going through a wonderful experience and everybody around you tells you the same. You feel like you know this is a happy time, but you can't quite put your finger on why you don't feel as happy as you know you should. You tell everyone you're excited and get every single pregnancy app, pregnancy calendar app on your phone, but certain things seem far from exciting- it is almost scary and distant. Relax now, it isn't uncommon, these are pregnancy blues, and there are plenty of pregnancy tracker apps that will see you through it!

Pregnancy Nutrition App - BabyBerry

Let's Take a Closer Look at This, Shall We?

Your automatic reaction to feeling blue during your pregnancy is to blame it on your pregnancy hormones. While sometimes, the moodiness can be explained away just like that, most times, it's definitely better to get it checked. Some women have complained about severe depression during unplanned or planned pregnancies even. Though sometimes it can be beyond the scope of a pregnancy app, I strongly recommend getting one to at least track your daily emotions. Pregnancy blues are also associated with improper nutrition so an app that serves as a pregnancy nutrition app is recommended. It could also be a tough time if you have no help or no one to confide in or if you are working, you are overworked and stressed out. Also if your partner is also busy and not available, then you feel the burden of it even more. 

Therefore, pregnancy blues could be due to underlying factors that influence your mood like personal problems, no help, previous miscarriages, weight gain etc. It is important to get some help because your stress and moodiness affects your baby how much ever you don't want it to. A pregnancy app or a free parenting app will guide you through this by not only helping you, but by also telling you how you can cope with it and how stress affects your baby and how not to let this stress affect your baby. You could also reach out to specialists on the app and share your queries or seek help. 

And to Conclude

Ladies, everybody goes through pregnancy blues at some point or the other and there is no reason to blame yourself for any of it. Of course, it is an emotionally stressful time with you accepting your changing body and constantly worrying about your baby's growth. A pregnancy app should reduce stress, but don't let anyone tell you that it isn't normal to face pregnancy blues. For the best apps or online portal, I suggest you go for BabyBerry. 

And there is always the fact that you can reach out for help! 

Dads, You Need to Gear Up Too- Lessons in Life and Delivery!

I've always maintained that if anyone needs a free parenting app or baby care app, it is expecting fathers. Mothers-to-be are involved in their child's prenatal development (whether they like it or not), but somehow, fathers-to-be are distant from the pregnancy scene since they're not experiencing this physically. Of the most beautiful experiences in this life is the birth of your child which of course is preceded by intense labor pains. So dads, you're lucky to not go through it, but be prepared for labor all the same with a pregnancy tracker app or a pregnancy calendar app.

Pregnancy Calendar App - BabyBerry

So Now, For the Tips

• During the ninth month, women generally go through multiple false alarms. When this happens, you end up rushing to the hospital and they send you back till you're actually ready. This is also a cumbersome exercise, so log into your pregnancy tracker app to find out the best way to deal with this. Wait it out at home till you know for sure that your lady is ready to give birth!

• If you've been through a birthing class or a lamaze class or have been regularly updating your pregnancy app, then you should ideally know how to monitor contractions. Calm your lady through the stress and talk her through the contractions.

• If there's something you don't understand about what's going on during your wife's labor, voice it. Ask it all away and rest your concerns since these need to be addressed; however absurd and silly they may seem to others’. To you it is very important.

• Childbirth is not a short exercise. Be ready to wait and be by your wife’s side. Being in labor means, you don’t know when your wife will finally give birth! So you need to stay calm, patient and be focused. 

• Be well-aware of what is happening since you will have to be fully prepared during your lady's delivery. Read up on C-Section and other medical delivery procedures and never be left wanting when the situation arises.

• If you plan on recording the birthing experience, record only what is possible or what you want for keepsakes and not shoot all the moments, because it may not be something you will want to watch on a later date! 

Let's End This Conversation Dads

Dads, we know you're clued in and well aware! (It’s just that we think you are not or assume you are not). You dads are savvier with your pregnancy tracker apps and your full force involvement. Enjoy the whole process and don't forget to breathe!

Cracking Up the Light Way the Right Way- Diwali Tips for Pregnant Women

Hurrah, you're pregnant and it's Diwali! Here's to excitement for all the right reasons (quick mention of women in their first and second trimester who are still going through hell), from picking nice threads to carpet that growing belly and eating it all (with a pregnancy nutrition app, of course!)

Your Guide to Dancing With Big Bellies at Festivals!

Pregnancy Nutrition App - BabyBerry Pregnancy Parenting App

Moms, your pregnancy tracker app will tell you how far along you are and you definitely know what kind of care needs to be taken at what stage. If you don't have a freepregnancy app, get yourself BabyBerry! So here's a general overview of things you should keep in mind if you're pregnant but still want to celebrate Diwali like a boss:

·Always keep in mind you're pregnant and allow yourself the luxury of breathing poisonous firecracker fumes only once your baby is out. The fumes are not good for you in any case (you don't need a pregnancy app to tell you this!).

·Yes, Diwali is the festival of lights and sometimes, lamps and diyas can be arranged precariously all over the house. For those of you whose vision has been obscured by the giant mass latching onto your stomachs especially, floor lamps and diyas are a complete no! Keep everything in your line of vision.

·Yes, Diwali means platters of food and sweets. While you may or may not be having morning sickness or nauseated any longer, it is still better to watch what you eat. A pregnancy nutrition app will especially ask you to lay off too much sugar because it can be very damaging to your growing ball of joy!

·If your pregnant belly is obscuring your vision, it is safer and wiser to not wear anything that traipses over the floor when you're walking. As mentioned above, your lack of visual range will probably make it easier for some untoward accidents to occur (sorry for the tone!)

·Whatever you're doing, be it cooking, cleaning, eating, dancing, chilling or even breathing, always look for signs of distress from your body. Give in to your body's minute by minute needs and then you can say you've secured a smart Diwali!

From One Woman to Another!

Moms, there's a growing pressure to flaunt that third trimester glow in all your festive appeal (first and second trimester moms, your time will come too. Till then, keep updating BabyBerry, the best pregnancy tracker app!). Diwali is fun, but it should be safe for everyone too, especially you, moms-to-be!