Pregnancy week by week calendar

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Getting healthy before pregnancy

12 things to do before becoming pregnant to have a healthy baby

• Go to a preconception checkup with your doctor to make sure you are healthy enough to have a baby 
• Check to see if your vaccinations are up to date in order to have immunity against illnesses and prevent birth defects
• Go to your dentist for regular check ups before and during pregnancy. If you have gum disease, you will need treatment in order to prevent health problems for both you and your baby.
• Take a multivitamin with 400 micrograms of folic acid daily in order to prevent birth defects and further complications.
• Eat healthy foods and get to a healthy weight to avoid health problems in you and your baby
• Don't smoke, drink alcohol, use street drugs or take prescription drugs that aren't prescribed to you and stay away from second hand smoking
• Learn about your family history and what health conditions that you need to talk to your doctor about and the risk you have 
• Keep away from toxoplasmosis by not eating uncooked meat or changing your cat's litter box
• Stay away from harmful chemicals like paint thinner. Some toxic chemicals can increase your risk of having birth defects
• Get help if you are being abused by your partner. Abuse often gets worse during pregnancy
• Reduce the stress amount in your life because too much stress can cause problems during pregnancy

How can Folic Acid prevent birth defects?

There are many types of foods that are rich in Folic Acid. Folic rich foods would be Lentil, dried beans, peas, nuts, avocado, dark green veggies, citrus fruit and also juice. For more info, click here.
If you do not eat foods that are rich in Folic Acid, there is another option that you can go with and that would be taking a Folic Acid pill everyday. The recommended amount of Folic Acid for a women is about 400 micrograms a day. Folic Acid should be taken both before and during pregnancy. This can reduce the neural tube defect by 50 to 70 percent. The birth defects that are caused by lack of Folic Acid are such as NTD, heart defects, spina bifida and more. 5 Folic Acid rich cereals are Fiber one cereal, Raisin Bran, Wheat Chex, and Honey Toasted Oat.

Theorist report

My multi-Intelligence

My multi-intelligence results

Chapter 1 Vocabulary

Human Development- The similar process people go through stages of development over time. It is a gradual process in which people change from birth through adulthood.

Physical Development- The changes in size, body composition, chemical make-up, and height that occur as humans develop from birth to adulthood.

Gross-motor skills- Involves large muscle movements such as crawling, walking, and jumping.

Fine-motor skills- Involves small muscle movements such as cutting with scissors, typing on a keyboard, and writing with a pen or pencil.

Cognition- Processes or actions involving thinking or knowing how to perceive, sense, organize, memorize, recall, reason, problem solve, and imagine.

Cognitive Development- The way people change and grow in how they thunk over the stages of life.

Socio-emotional development- Refers to changes in the way a person's social relationships, feelings, social skills, self-esteem, gender identity, and ways of copying with situations change over time.

Heredity- Traits people are born with.

Environment- All of a person's surroundings and the people in them.

Nature versus nurture debate- The debate between genetic versus environmental influences on development.

Continuity- Developmental changes are relatively slow, but steady.

Discontinuity- A process of development, spurred by abrupt changes.

Pedagogy- A teacher-or-parent- directed method of learning.

Andragogy- Some people believe that development is self-directed from the earliest stages of infancy.

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