Stay young and in shape, simply, efficiently, effectively, thoroughly and even cheaply wihtout diet pills, equipment, diets and even with little to no actual excercise! First off, eat healthy before and during pregnancy. Remember that you will have to take back off what you eat during pregnancy. Breastfeeding doesn't take it all off, although almost, as long as you are careful what you eat! This is how I did it after five I still drop down to a size 5 after each baby easily! The first two months of breastfeeding is the most important! That's where all the collostrum is that helps babies to build their immunities. So, throughout pregnancy make sure you get your rainbow diet of fruits and veggies but also make sure you get plenty of and variations of, herbs, spices, nuts, berries and double your prenatals if you are not getting three squares a day! What you pass on to baby in the early stages of pregnancy will help them to build up stronger immunities young and help to stay happier and healthier, cutting medical costs later in life! This is also great for helping you to stay in shape during pregnancy and lose weight after baby. It will help to increase energy levels and help your body to function more naturally while trying to bounce back after baby every time! I, personally would rather take two vitamins and eat one less meal than eat more and have to work harder to loose the weight! Another big clue on preperation for birth, besides taking your classes on lamaze, ...make sure to keep yourself in good shape during pregnancy, right up till birth! I was told that because I was celebate during my first pregnancy, might have had alot to do with bleeding damn near to death during labor! Make sure you keep those muscles in shape with a HEALTHY sex life and if you can't do anything else walk as much as you dare! This will help to prepare muscles for an easier birth. When ready to go into labor, make sure you are properly relaxed and take in plenty of relaxation techniques, chamomile is good, sleepy time tea, blood thinners, like vinegar and pickle juice up to a week before pregnancy but make sure you even it out with pastas so as not to bleed too much during labor. My doc told me to have an alcoholic beverage when I was ready to go into labor. For preterm labor, you'll need to do the opposite and slow blood, stay active and tense but try to egt off your feet after excercise. The laws of gravity do function in the later stages of pregnancy! So, tense to keep baby in and relax to get baby out!

After baby......do all your housework twice a day, get back on your feet as soon as you dare to! It will not only keep baby's area clean, but you and the rest of the family too. During the earliest stages, it is important for baby to have healthy lungs. Put baby in a seperate room while vacuuming, sweeping and or dusting so as not to congest little lungs and don't use powders unless necessary for rashes, try using corn starch instead. It's less congestive for baby lungs and won't weaken breathing patters so that baby doesn't have lung problems early in life and therefore heart problems as well. When you are not careful with lungs, baby can have heart and lung problems early in life and these things cost the fmaily in medical bills, see. Work your body evenly while doing housework and even while holding baby, bend to both sides equally, hold baby with both arms, everything you do to one side do to the other! It could stop scholiosis before it happens! Always hold baby and play ambidextrously! Keep your body centered! This will help also to build strength in your weaker arm so that it will be easier to hold baby and do housework or other tasks while baby is fussy as the child gets older! Be careful lifting baby also, bend at the knee, try not to lean over too much, you could strain your muscles making it more difficult on youself to get things done efficiently! Make the upper body stronger for baby! Keep a high fruit and veggie intake for more energy and grab an herbal energy supplement to take along with your after baby vitamins! Keep your levels high so you can get things accomplished! Keep red meats out of your diet , they'll only make you and baby fat and congest your bloodstream, slowing your heartrate! Stick to proteins , fish, cheese, poultry, instead this could stop overweight babies early in life and make them healthier growing up! This will also help you get the weight off faster! Destress and meditate daily! While baby is napping, take one yourself, breathe deep and exhale all the negative energy you can to destress. It will help you to be a better parent,keeping the stress out of your life! Take classes on parenting, !!! If you mean to be a good parent, you should anyways! I did, ...I took all the classes on parenting I could get and I learned all kinds of neat little tips that may have saved my childrens lives and mine! Make sure baby is content, babies rarely cry for no reason! Make sure baby is fed at regular times, try to maintain a schedule, they'll help you with that at the hospital! Don;t hesitate to call the nurses or the Doc for advice ever, they'll give that for free! Make sure baby has comfortable clothing on at all times, nevermind the looks at first, newborns need comfort while their skin is solidifying and shedding that newborn baby hair. Always make sure to burp thoroughly every so many ounces, again the nurses will help if you ask. Gas in a baby belly hurts and makes them terribly uncomfortable. Burp often to make sure they don't get bellyaches. Good clue for burping, hold baby against chest upright, air goes up, not sideways, not down, and pat on the back firmly, but gently until you get a good three or four burps out of them, then continue feeding, if still fussing, burp again. If baby seems wiggly or stops suction, this usually means they have another burp! Make sure blankets and clothing are smoothed out under baby, wrinkles will make them uncomfortable and unnecesarily fussy! Remember, if you are frustrated baby will sense this and fuss for no reason, possibly even making them more gashious than necessary! For breastfeeding Moms, I know it's difficult, but you have to relax to breastfeed!!! Milk will not flow if you are not completely relaxed. I had trouble breastfeeding because I could not relax into it. Make sure you are perfectly comfortable and have a chamomile tea before starting. Put your feet up or lie down on your side and make sure you can hold the position in a relaxed state! Make sure babys mouth covers the nipple evenly and completely, otherwise you wil get sore and bleed, making it impossible to continue. If you ansolutely cannot stand the thought of breastfeeding, for whatever reason, or have trouble with inverted nipples or cannot seem to relax and let milk flow, try using a breastpump and at least get them the first few weeks so they can gain your immunities. If you have health problems, ask your Doc or maybe even call the red cross, they are great for this, about a nutritional diet that will help you build your own immunities so as not to pass on your health problems to baby. I did! I didn't want to pass on my cancers to my childern so I took a class at the red cross about beeing a blood donor and they helped me to find the right diet and take the right vitamins necessary to build strong immunities to pass onto my children. The earlier you start with this and I mean way before deciding to get prgnant, the healthier baby will be and the fewer family health problems you will pass on!

Now, tans, whites and yellows, make for healthy skin and assist in curing all those stretch marks as well as rebuilding elasticity! Vegetable oil spread will help with this too, stay away from real butter! Cocoa butter is good for the skin but will put on a minor level of fats so be careful not to use it too often, instead use aloe, vitamin a and e lotions, vaseline intensive care products and Oil of Olay! Sweat, as often as possible. Push yourself in your daily housekeeping and get out to do the yardwork! Stretch often before and after to make sure you stay flexible so as not to be too tense, muscles will bunch and strain if you are not careful and you'll be having to move faster for the sake of baby! Vary between your lotions!!! Big clue, use one in the am and one in the pm. After your shower use Oil Of Olay after shower lotion and follow the directions, this stuff is awesome! Then,.. towel off and use your vitamin a and or e...I use baby oil with a and e, on my washcloth it helps to keep skin supple! Fresh air and nature are good for you and for baby. Natural immunities come from a slow introduction to air and sunshine in small doses at first and the more nature you get into your own system, the better you'll feel and the faster you will bounce back into shape. A slow introduction to pollens and fresh air will keep baby from having allergies and lung problems later on! Keep away from preprepared foods and artificial additives and preservatives !!! They are no good for noone anyways and no dyes!!! They will make baby and you sick and cause brain deficiencies early on in life. Don't ever foget the homemades! Force yourself to take the time to make things homemade, it will pay off! Use all the spices and herbs you can think of in everything you cook! Oust your fruit and veggie intake and get the widest varieties you can in soups, stews, natural juices and teas! Don't forget the nuts and berries either and ballance always acids from your fruits and veggies by putting noodles in your soups and stew and making sure you get your grains! These help to keep the skin youthful and elastic and will help to stop the aging process! Natural sugar and homemade maple syrup is awesome for skin!!!! Don't get bluffed into using sugar subs!!! They'll only give you cancer! Natural sugar helps with curing the skin and acts as a mineral, like salt to cure and heal skin naturally! Not to mention that it helps with natural energy levels! Salt also is a healing and curing agent when it comes to healing the skin, especially scar tissue! Variations of peppers will help to heal skin also! Not to mention your internal organs. Be careful not to over do it though, as with all things use don't abuse! Spaghetti sauces and chillis are great for bouncing back into shape, just remember when trying to loose weight, to drain all pasta of excess starches and add in poultry instead of red meats. Save this for rebuilding flesh! There, easy enough? No excercising necessary when you eat right and do your chores regularly! You'll bounce back into shape fast and everyone will wonder how you did it!

One more clue, ...ladies, when you are home with baby and your man is working hard, taking better care of him when he comes home from a hard days work will help you stay in better shape and keep him in a good mood. Every little thing you do for your man, will boost his ego and his health at the same time! When you take good care of your man, it comes back around to you in good sex. He will heal your insides if you take proper care of him! Bounce back into your sex life as soon after baby as you can get permission from your Doc, NOT BEFORE, trust me! It's difficult for a man to go that long wihtout sex! Don't force him into another womans arms by taking to long to get back into pleasing him! Too many women make this mistake! There are of course alternatives to physical sex also, you know...there are other ways, ...get creative...Dad's need to be sure they have not been fogotten about especially after baby is born. Catering to him will help him to remember that baby is not the only important one here and it will help you to stay in better shape. This way Dad will be more willing to help with baby when you need him to without feeling like it's just another thing taking your time away from him!.... All better!!!