A pregnancy journal is a diary that helps pregnant women knows their symptoms and experiences. It enabled you to keep track of your everyday moods. It can also act as a newsletter that gives you information on various topics related to pregnancy.

Today, these journals are available online as well. These are interactive and help you understand your pregnancy milestones. Using these online diaries, you can share your pregnancy period with loved ones. You can continue to maintain these journals even after the birth of your child and share the moments with your child when he or she is older.

Pregnancy Journals are available on topics like pregnancy diet, the probable due date, breastfeeding, week-by-week pregnancy details, advice for stay-at-home moms or working moms, and many more. These journals are filled with a lot of first hand information: from newly pregnant women to full-fledged moms that it becomes helpful for others in more ways than one.

Although no two pregnancies are alike, there is plenty of common ground. For women who are planning to conceive or have recently conceived, this information can be very beneficial for the beginning phase of the pregnancy.

What Does A Pregnancy Journal Contain?

It is an outlet for your feelings and emotions. It is a place where you can take refuge and write down every detail about your incredible journey. It is a personal diary where you can record small secrets: the names that you are considering for the baby, the tests that you have been through and other things. This can be used as a keepsake folder to store pictures, doctor’s notes, and nursery ideas.

You can record all the aspects and elements of your pregnancy such as baby updates, body updates, and mind updates.

During pregnancy, the most important record is that of your pregnancy diet plan. What you eat during pregnancy not only affects the health of your child during the nine months when it is a fetus but also in the later stages in life. Maintaining your daily diet in your journal lets you keep a check on every food item that you eat.

What You Can Write In A Pregnancy Journal

• The firsts: the first person you told the news to when you experienced symptoms of pregnancy, your first doctor’s visit, the first time you wore maternity clothes, and the like.

• Weekly weights and measurements

• Tests and their results

• Reactions to your developing body

• Questions to ask the doctor

• Pregnancy diet

• Cravings and mood swings

• Changes happening to the body and mind

A pregnancy journal is a day by day record of your pregnancy. It could act as a guide for your forthcoming pregnancies or for other women in your family that get pregnant at a later date.

The term “Teenage Pregnancy” means bearing of pregnancy by a girl who has not attained adulthood, usually between the ages of 13 – 19.  In some countries, it is due to child marriages, rape, poverty, but in other countries, it may be the result of long time dating. It is the result of voluntary or involuntary sexual intercourse between a girl and boy. Usually, the average age of menarche in various countries including U.S.A is 12 years old, but the age is descending. Presently, a girl can get pregnant at the age of 10 or 11 also. Teenage pregnancy pours lots of problems for the expecting mother in any country. Society behaves with the expecting girl with extreme indignity. Therefore, it is becoming a social issue on which many studies and campaigns are prevalent. Many women institutions are raising this issue at large scale to make the population aware about its ill-effects, thus trying to reduce or stop teenage pregnancy.

The sign of pregnancy can be diagnosed by urine test. It can be also detected by pelvic examination by a gynecologist, who declares purple coloration of vaginal walls with enlargement of uterus and further ultrasound is done to confirm it. It carries risk to the body of the expecting mother, as they do not know about prenatal care. They are prone to high blood pressure, alcohol drinking, smoking, and unscheduled eating patterns resulting in low weight of child. They are frightened to tell their parents, and thus, face more difficulties such as confusion, fear, lack of sleep, frustration, and isolation.

The expecting mother should take quick decision in this stage of pregnancy. They have to either abort or offer the child for adoption. As abortion is possible only till 3 months or 12 weeks of pregnancy, she should talk to the family without any fear or go to any women centre to seek advice and help as it is the question of life and death of two people – the expecting mother and baby.