Health : Family Pregnancy Planning in Dubai

Christina Helen Brown — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:53:57 +0000

The special moments planning for a baby and the time during your pregnancy are the most precious months of your life, not only the mother but the entire family involved. No one ever said it would be easy, it’s not like there’s a manual to help you understand how parenting works but you’ll do well and get by because at the end of the day we all strive to do our best with whatever is brought before us. Being pregnant abroad can sometimes be even more stressful but here with our help for you to have a beautiful experience and healthier pregnancy as possible in Dubai.

Counseling.

Dubai offers a variety of pre-pregnancy counseling specialists. These one to one sessions are a great way to find clarification with all the puzzling questions you have worrying you each day, hormones going on and off like a switch, worries about your health and your babies health, life after birth. The specific counselor you choose to entrust through your pre-pregnancy time will make sure you feel more informed and relaxed at the end of each session, with their advice and personal discussion time you will come to term with pregnancy and after birth, what’s important physically, your health and keeping you emotionally stable for the wellbeing of both you and your baby.

Many families will also use this time to involve the whole family, their partner and even older children who might feel unloved or threatened because of all the attention the new baby is receiving. Your counselor will be able to help answer their questions too making this experience a joyful one for everyone.

Priorities

The number one priority before or after pregnancy is to be physically and emotionally healthy. With exercise and healthy nutrition you will find pregnancy will feel more energized and peaceful. Although you wont be able to train at high intensity like you used to, some sort of fitness is essential for your body.

Suggested Exercise :

Pilates
Plenty of walking outdoors
Water exercises
Aerobic classes
Dancing classes
Yoga classes
Low weight training, preferably with just light dumbbells for your arms alone (you don’t want wings right?)
Morning stretches and bedtime stretches

There are plenty of healthy food options you can also discuss with your counselor, find a plan that keeps you happy and committed to stick to. Remember to put water first, carry it around with you if you must.

Choose a Hospital

Dubai has a fantastic variety of government and private hospital facilities that will be welcoming to patients of all types of requests. Ensure you discuss what is covered with your health care insurance, although government hospitals are relatively known to be more cheaper than doesn’t mean it will be to the comfort of your choosing. And any woman that has already gone through pregnancy will tell you that your comfort on the day is important to determine a smooth birth.

Important: Some of Dubai’s public hospitals discipline strict religious rules which prohibit fathers to be present in delivery room.

Parental Groups in Dubai

Dubai offers a wide range of classes for expecting parents. Many of these sessions exercise fitness and wellbeing for mother and unborn child, it helps involve the father to come and participate with helping his partner with routines that he might need to remember when the big day of delivery comes. Alongside the active classes parents to be will also receive emotional support, there are plenty of classes where you can speak to other expecting parents and not feel like you’re all alone. See what is working for other parents, how was their first pregnancy, did they plan their birth to the dot, did they take yoga classes frequently? all these questions and more can easily be answered.

Just Relax and Enjoy the Experience

At the end of the day, there is only so much you can do and prepare, the baby is fully in control when it’s ready to come out there is no time for what you’ve planned, the important thing is getting the baby out safely and healthy. Although being pregnant wont be easy, the important thing is to stay happy and relaxed. Bring your friends over for a movie night and bring as much ice cream as you want. Take time out to pamper and enjoy some alone time, turn on a fragrant candle lit bath and play some soothing music. This might be the only time you can benefit from buying a bell and making your partner run around errands for you.

Keeping Fit With Group Workouts

Christina Helen Brown — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:41:22 +0000

Sure, hefting weights on the gym-room floor and hitting the treadmill are popular workouts for a reason, but ask yourself:

Are you new to working out/strength training?
Do you lack daily motivation?
Do you have signs of muscular imbalances?
Do you question every machine/workout?

If you set goals and are willing to give 100 percent effort, group classes can help you succeed faster and better than you might have thought possible.

You’ll Receive Guidance From a Pro

Of course, you can always pay extra for a personal trainer, but group fitness classes can be very helpful—and the price is often included in most gym memberships. A good instructor watches all participants throughout the class to make sure their workout is safe and effective. The instructor should also have fitness training and a certification under their belt, and it’s not a bad thing to ask them about it, either. With your instructor’s guidance, and by watching their moves closely, you can often get a safer, more effective workout than you would on your own.

You Can Prevent or Correct Muscle Imbalances

Muscle imbalances can come about in many ways, from suffering an injury to simply having a more dominant side. Over time, muscular imbalances can create serious issues. Hamstring imbalances, for example, can cause tightness and pain in your lower back. Sometimes, working with machines or doing exercises that don’t challenge muscles individually can exacerbate the problem by allowing the dominant side to, well, dominate.

In a group-fitness setting, however, you won’t use machines or sit in one position the whole time. The variety of motions and positions used in most fitness classes can help stretch and strengthen each muscle individually, leading to major overall improvements.

You Can Improve Your Body Awareness and Alignment

Attending a group fitness class led by a qualified instructor is also very helpful for learning to feel how your body should move. Anything beyond the normal 9-5 office activities can start to get out of range for our muscle memory. If we’re not careful, we may be bending, reaching, twisting, and picking up objects with form bad enough to eventually hurt ourselves—without even realizing it. Of course, no one wants to injure themselves while trying to improve their fitness, which is why structured group-fitness classes can be an advantage.

Making New Friends

In group-fitness classes, you’re automatically afforded the opportunity for socialization. You’re surrounded by like-minded people with similar fitness aspirations and interests. Chatting together before and after class—whether to share tips and tricks, highlight particular hurdles, or offer congrats on progress made—quickly builds a sense of community. This can be very motivational, and it can add to your reasons to keep coming back and making progress!

You Can Banish Workout Boredom

Not only do you have the option to choose an entirely different genre of exercise on any given day, but each class also provides you with a different experience. As a bonus, is that it’s much easier and more fun to get through an hour-long workout in a class setting than it is on your own! Instructors will try to keep the music and activities fun to keep the class energy levels pumped up.

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