Archive for December, 2008

Being a responsible parent, you upbringing your teenage daughter could be a very tedious task and the trauma of knowing about your teenage daughter�s pregnancy will really be overwhelming. The very first lesson in handling your teenage daughter�s pregnancy always starts with don�ts rather than do�s.

For instance, the moment you come to know about your teenage daughter�s pregnancy do not make sparks fly on the issue, instead keep your cool and find out ways and means to solve the issue more amicably. If you start shouting at your teenage daughter over the pregnancy issue, please bear in your mind that the same cannot solve your and your daughter�s problem, instead it may get blown beyond your ability to solve it and you may even risk losing your communication totally, the only road to reach your daughter.

Keep Cool

At the first instance, as a responsible parent of a teenage daughter, try to gather more information and news about your teenage daughter�s condition because the information is very crucial if you want to settle the issue amicably. In case you and your daughter are very close and move like friends, then try to hold your temper and play cool when you come to know about your daughter�s teenage pregnancy. In a circumstance where if you fear that you cannot keep your cool, just try to count 1 to 20 and speak only after this time and you can see or feel that a majority of your anger has subsided and you would have also developed an sympathetic view on the issue.

As you keep talking to your teenage daughter, never raise your voice but at the same time be firm and get all the necessary information. In order to keep the conversation flowing without any break let your daughter speak first and give her a patient hearing and you should interrupt only in case of necessity or when you need more clarification on certain points. Please note that this is not the time to preach your teenage daughter about morality and responsibility and try to postpone all your intended advises to future.

Appropriate and Right Decisions

Once you have completed the conversation part and have all the necessary information on hand, try to speak to your daughter and get to know her mind too. Dwell upon various options and encourage your teenage daughter to come out with her own options or suggestions. At this stage any unwarranted thrust of your ideas on your daughter might cause more harm, both physically and mentally, and hence keep your talk more understandingly and try to help your pregnant teenage daughter understand the magnitude and repercussions of both her problem and her decisions.

In any case your daughter feels confused, give her more time to decide on the issue and what to do with the baby. And you can also suggest various supportive options that could solve the issue but at this stage what you must have is a mind set to solve the issue and not to punish your teenage daughter, as you can run a serious risk of losing the whole relationship that may end up losing your daughter. You can also talk to the man responsible for your teenage daughter�s pregnancy, and you can try to find a better solution by discussing the issue with him and his parents.

Pregnancy is an important and challenging event in your life and hence it needs all the deserving treatment including a successful and meaningful follow-up or tracking. When it comes tracking your pregnancy, you can make use of pregnancy calendar with which you can easily assess the progress of your pregnancy and keep track to adjust to all changes happening in your body. Further, by using a pregnancy calendar you can also more or less precisely calculate your due date of giving birth to your baby.

A pregnancy calendar will guide you step by step to know when you are going to deliver your baby and it is so systematically designed that you can concentrate your tracking only for weeks instead bothering to count all the 300 days or forty weeks from the date of conception. Most pregnancy calendars can instantly help you to know your probable date of delivery based on the date of conception and this feature will help you to be prepared for the d-day well in time.

How Accurate are Pregnancy Calendars

Today medical professionals and midwifes use very modern pregnancy calendars that are more scientifically prepared and are more accurate. Though occasionally the arrival of your baby could be either early or late, you will at least know the probable date in advance and get prepared for the event. It is also quite common for the first time mothers to expect their babies born early and in such circumstances the pregnancy calendar can come very handy.

Further, for mothers during their subsequent pregnancies, pregnancy calendar has become an integral part of their pregnancy cycle, as the tendency or the anxiety for early delivery will be absent. You should also bear in your mind that every pregnancy need not necessarily follow the same cycle as per your previous one and hence use of pregnancy calendar could help you to know where you stand in your pregnancy cycle. For instance, if the delivery has become overdue, you can contact your doctor or midwife and ascertain the causes.

Chinese Pregnancy Calendars

It will be interesting to note that the Chinese pregnancy calendars are capable of predicting the gender of the unborn baby and though there is no scientific evidence for this, you can still use the Chinese pregnancy calendar and get to know whether your baby is a girl or boy. When it comes to the working principle of Chinese pregnancy calendars, it is actually takes the age and the pregnancy date of the woman into account and this principle seems to work correct to predict the sex of the baby for many women who have used the calendar.

The Chinese calendar has got all the details well planned and once you have your date of pregnancy on hand you can easily follow the Chinese pregnancy calendar and be able to know the date of delivery and the gender of the baby in advance.