A pregnancy journal or a personal diary is the best way
to record your feelings, experiences to share this experience with your near
and dear ones.
Your personal pregnancy journal
Your journal or a diary is the place where you express and
record all the important things experienced by you in the course of your
pregnancy. It keeps track of all your feelings, moments of joys or pain. It is
your best friend, with whom you share your thoughts, hopes and dreams of the
future. It keeps a record of your day-to-day happenings. You learn more a bout
the world that surrounds you; every mundane experience too becomes a moment of
learning.
If you maintain the pregnancy journal consistently, you will
learn to get more focused on your condition and getting comfortable with long
wait of nine months before you get to see and touch your baby. It helps you in
bonding and developing strong maternal bonds with the baby, who is still a mass
of cells, gradually taking shape of your dreams. The cheerfulness and brightness
that a pregnancy journal manages to generate becomes contagious with everything
and everyone. Being happy and enjoying the moments of pregnancy is the best
medicine for all the annoying changes happening within your body.
Pregnancy journal brings about a subtle change in your
perspective. You view the world in a positive manner and respond accordingly. It
helps you overcome the irritability, short temperedness due to fluctuating
hormones. It helps you in overcoming low esteem due to heavy body weight and
frumpy figure. Pregnancy journal increases the knowledge of self and helps in
creativity. It simplifies the days, making you patient and less anxious for the
‘big day’.
Fill up your pregnancy journal with the recordings of the
most common earliest pregnancy symptoms such as:
Change of basal body temperature through ovulation and
through the expected date of next periods.
Light spotting, bleeding and yellowish vaginal discharge. It
takes place 4-5 days after conception, when the embryo implants itself to the
uterine wall.
Frequent urination
Fatigue during the early stages of pregnancy as hormone
levels change. A missed period dates and discovery of the first pregnancy.
All these recordings become archive material and are a handy
help for recognizing signs of pregnancy during subsequent pregnancies. It is a
valuable tool of incredible information and feelings experienced in your first
pregnancy.
