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17 Tips for a Healthy Pregnancy - #1 Take a Prenatal Vitamin Even when you're still trying to conceive, it's smart to start taking prenatal vitamins. Your baby's neural cord, which becomes the brain and spinal cord, develops within the first month of pregnancy, so it's important you get essential nutrients, like folic acid, calcium, and iron, from the very start. Prenatal vitamins are available over the counter at most drug stores, or you can get them by prescription from your doctor. If taking them makes you feel queasy, try taking them at night or with a light snack. Chewing gum or sucking on hard candy afterward can help, too. It took me a little while to get into the habit of taking my prenatal vitamin. I wasn't used to taking anything daily since I had been off the pill for a few months. I finally got myself in the habit of taking it every morning. I just take an over the counter vitamin. It has the same nutrients as a doctor prescribed vitamin but is less hass...

I don't know if I'm going to post an update tomorrow or not so I'm going to post this instead. This is an article I got from Parents.com . I love when they send me articles like this. It reassures me that I'm doing the right things for Little Miss. 17 Tips for a Healthy Pregnancy I think I'll break this out into individual posts for each point like I did before. It gives me a chance to explain the kinds of things I'm doing during my pregnancy.

April 18, 2011...the day our lives changed!! This is where it all begins. I had been feeling 'off' for a few weeks and I wasn't sure what was going on. On a whim, I decided that I was going to take pregnancy test on Monday, April 18, 2011. I had and E.P.T. test where one line meant not pregnant and two lines meant pregnant. I was tired of seeing one line, even after only three months of trying! So, as soon as I got home from work, and before my husband got home from work, I finished the annoying task of trying to pee on that little stick and I set it on the bathroom counter and walked away. I took our 3 dogs outside to distract myself because I knew I had 3 mintues to wait. They always seem like the longest 3 minutes! My 3 minutes came and went and I went to investigate. And so began our journey... Unfortunatley, my crazy husband didn't trust the extra line so we had to go buy the Clear Blue digital tests that said pregnant or not pregnant. When that one came o...