Practicing Ge-Lai

I am not a Chinese nor any blood inherited from them. I just want to try this thing I have read year 2009. I know some were facts and some were just traditions. Still I am taking consideration in doing this after giving birth.

I still remember 2009, I am working at Aegis People Support. I was being seated beside a pregnant tenured employee who happened to read a blog of Giselle Sanchez from Pep.com website. Since it was prohibited in the office, so she hides it from time to time. Then I've got the guts to ask what is she reading about. She said a tips after giving birth. She was 8 months pregnant during that time. I admit it didn't interests me, not until I got pregnant this year and remembers her. Here is what Ge-lai about. The blog was written by Ms. Sanchez.

Ge-lai, is a post-partum care that has been practiced for centuries in China and up to now by the traditional Chinese. And why? There are many advantages. I have an 80-year-old Chinese lady friend who has had six children, but she looks like she is 50 years old and as strong as a 40-year- old lady. Mrs. Dy has no veins in her hands, no wrinkles, never had cosmetic surgery nor botox. Take note, she is 80 years old. She told me her secret was her practices after giving birth: Ge-lai. Let me go over some of them for our future mothers who wish to reap the benefits.

    1.    No bath for a month!

    The Chinese believe that when you give birth, all your pores open up because of the extreme pressure and exhaustion.You also accumulate a lot of “cold” in your body such that bathing brings in more “cold” even if you take a bath with warm water, especially your head.

    2. After a month of NO bath ge-lai expert will assist you took bath with  matching different herbal boiled leaves .

    3. Then a 9 days uterus massage to lift back to its normal position and a rewarding bathing pass and again have a final massage.

    Advantages of the one-month bath abstinence: faster recovery, better resistance to sickness like colds, fever, “binat”, and more time for your baby and to breastfeed.

    Abstaining from taking a bath also abstains you from going out, which gives you a mandatory one-month rest, which you badly need after giving birth.

    4. Twice a day, sit on boiled guava leaves. You have to be naked when you do this, okay. If you’re wearing a panty, it won’t work.Seriously speaking, the steam of the guava leaves will hasten the healing of your wounds down under and will make your uterus contract  faster (breastfeeding will also hasten this).

    5. Eat lapu-lapu, cook in soup with ginger to heal the stitches in your belly (for caesarian operations) and stitches in your pep_   (for normal delivery). I actually researched on why this works. Apparently, lapu-lapu is rich with omega 3 fish oil , which is enhances tissue repair in our bodies.

    6. Drink Seravallo wine. This is made from the bark of a tree in Brazil which is very rich in Iron.  Broken sleep patterns from breastfeeding or taking care of the baby makes you lose a lot of iron in your body. Seravallo replenishes your iron. It is safe for nursing mothers because it is more of a medicinal tonic than a wine.

    7. Eat soups with lots of ginger and drink hot chocolate with native egg. Again this is to eliminate the “cold” in your body. Chocolate is warm. Sweets are warm. And ginger is the warmest.

    8. After giving birth and on your first four weeks after birth, wear a binder or a girdle even when you go to sleep.

    9. If you can, breastfeed. It will be great for your baby and for yourself too.

    For your baby: It will strengthen your baby’s immune system. . No colic that is very common among infants.  Colic is excessive crying and irritability in infants because of stomach or intestinal discomfort caused by air spasm or inflammation. This happens when infants are given formula in a bottle because they get to  suck some air when sucking milk.

    For the mom: Massively reduces the uterus inflammation and brings back the uterus size to normal.

    It also reduces birth weight and gets you back to your normal weight in one week. It makes you lose 500 calories per feeding which means you do not need to work out so much and you can eat whatever you want since you get to lose it anyway.

    Disadvantages: You will be the slave of your child or the breast pump every two hours, if not, your breast will explode of breast milk. Well, it won’t really explode but it will feel like it—it’s called engorgement.

    You will be the U.F.M., the Ultimate Feeding Machine of your child. You feel helpless and you won’t get to do anything else, even write a blog entry!

    But things will normalize in a month and you will learn to do other things around your breastfeeding schedule, and you will be proud  that the Ultimate Feeding Machine is the Ultimate Sacrifice a mother can make for her child. And the word sacrifice is an understatement! 

See the advantages?! That's why I am so tempted to try this so. :)

How Diet Can Help My Baby

Just right in time I am on a prescribed diet. So as I wanted to share this to everyone. If you are pregnant or trying to get pregnant, that should give you extra of a cause to lose weight. Whereas simply being chubby carries health problems, there are additionally problems for the infant when you find yourself overweight. When you are attempting to get pregnant, you need to observe diets. However, if you are already pregnant, you should talk to your doctor as a result of losing weight may additionally hurt the baby.While your weight might be putting issues in your bones, muscular tissues and veins, you must also think about what the additional weight shall be doing to your unborn baby.

The primary problem is that  will be prone to further problems throughout the pregnancy, particularly in the course of the later stages. There are also dangers of needing a c-section relatively than having the ability to have the newborn naturally, which has issues in itself; there is a cause why doctors desire the natural birth.It can be very tough to see whether or not the baby is rising healthily while carrying it since the ultrasounds could not be capable to see clearly through the fat. You can miss out on finding out about pure birth defects or whether there are any risks of your child being born with a disability. That is typically an important part of the being pregnant to search out out whether the child may have the perfect chance of survival and a high quality of life.

There can even be more danger of developing infections when  carrying the newborn and when  giving birth. Immune system will be much decrease and  physique might be affected by the surplus weight already; it'll all be weakened by carrying a baby.It'll acquire weight while  going by means of  being pregnant and that is healthy for a lot of women. Nevertheless, in case a person already chubby, you should not gain as a lot as you'll when you were at a healthy weight degree to begin with. In fact, in case you are overweight, you must refrain from gaining greater than 10 pounds.

Hoping Badly

I am hoping badly that something like bc blogger must start as soon as possible since I have new blogs. I wanted to gain links, traffic, ranks and most especially friends. Before I always joined bc blogger which is always being hosted by Paula, but unfortunately I always missed my email if it's instruction part. That was before when I am just a part time blogger and blogger.com was blocked on my work computer. Now that I am at home that I expect will sta for so long, I can say I am now near to my dream of being part of BC Blogger!

For this weeks question
“What is one tool, tip, secret (or whatever it may be) that you have discovered  that has helped you in your blogging and would like to share to others?” 

This is the hard part..err ^^.. I am not a pro at blogging, I don't earn much. As you can see I only blog if I wanted. Sometime year ago I became addicted, that lead me to reach 4 blogs. But after my page rank went down I gain lose amor at my blogging career.  The thing that always excite me much is about tweaking templates. I used http://w3schools.com/ to learn more about tweaking. Designing is what I love most in blogging. I used to make own layouts and fortunately some friend appreciate and hire me.

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Appendectomy

It is a treatment operation  in an inflamed appendix which to be called appendicitis. This is just a minor operation as long as the appendix is not ruptured. The causes of appendicitis are not well understood, but it is believed to occur as a result of one or more of these factors: an obstruction within the appendix, the development of an ulceration (an abnormal change in tissue accompanied by the death of cells) within the appendix, and the invasion of bacteria. Under these conditions, bacteria may multiply within the appendix.

The appendix may become swollen and filled with pus (a fluid formed in infected tissue, consisting of while blood cells and cellular debris), and may eventually rupture. Signs of rupture include the presence of symptoms for more than 24 hours, a fever, a high white blood cell count, and a fast heart rate

. Very rarely, the inflammation and symptoms of appendicitis may disappear but recur again later. 

Symptoms of appendicitis are somewhat vague, but usually pain in the abdomen, which occurs firstly around belly button but then moved to the lower right area, is a classic symptom of appendicitis. Other symptoms can include constipation and diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, loss of appetite and a low fever that appears in conjunction with the other symptoms.

Treatment for appendicitis is appendectomy only. Most suggested of all physicians.

P for Peer

My First entry starts at P. I am gonna like this meme..

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New peers that will pressure me. peer pressure lol.

How Feelings Works

It can sound strange to hear that how you feel about yourself affects how others feel about you. But  there is a direct connection between the two and the better you are at loving yourself, the better you will be loved by others. There is a fun thing that operates in all of our lives, just as the law of gravity does. It is called the law of attraction and it is the same as that old saying we have heard, "like attracts like". When it comes to love, if you love yourself really, really well you will find that you will be really, really well loved by others.

However, the idea of loving oneself can be a foreign concept for many people, and they have no clue of how to go about doing it! Many people are accomplished at criticizing and judging themselves, and not good at all at loving and appreciating themselves. Learning a way to change that, and then practicing it every day until it becomes a habit, will result in the law of attraction working for you and not against you. The key thing to remember in this practice is to evaluate how any particular thought feels. Usually critical or judgmental thoughts leave a person with a bad feeling. Try thinking something critical about yourself or anyone else and notice how that feels. Another thing that happens is that by thinking one critical thought, it becomes easier to think another one, or two, or more of them. Pretty soon it is almost impossible to find any thought that feels good! Now do the reverse of that by thinking an appreciative thought about anyone and notice how that feels. The same thing happens, in that it becomes easy to find another appreciative thought, and another until it becomes difficult to think a bad feeling thought.

Once you really understand how powerfully your feelings are affected by the nature of your thought, turn your focus on to yourself and look for things to appreciate and love. This may be somewhat unfamiliar to you, but keep going. All people have qualities that are worth appreciating and your job is to find all of yours. Remember that you DESERVE to find them, and that you may not censor yourself in this process. Think about your body and how it performs many functions that you do not have to tell it to do. Think about things that you already know that you like about yourself. Maybe it is your ease in making new friends, or maybe it is that you are a bit shy. Maybe it is the sound of your laughter, or the way your hair has that funny cowlick, or that you persist in solving a crossword puzzle until it is all done. Next, look for things to like about yourself that you do not normally notice. There are probably dozens of those! Find a feeling of appreciation for your funny quirks, your odd little habits, your delightful nuances and notice how good it feels to you to feel that appreciation. This is the practice that if you get really good at, day by day, over time you will discover that you are loving yourself really, really well. You will also discover, coincidentally, that people around you are loving you really, really well too. The law of attraction never stops working!