Fit and Food - 24.January

Food:

Breakfast: Toast with butter, nutella, jam and honey. Green tea.
Lunch: Spaghetti with tomato sauce and cheese again.
Dinner: salad, two eggs, 2 oranges, one banana-peanut butter milkshake.


Workout:
aerobic warm up
pilates core workout
pilates total body workout
pilates stretching

that makes 36 minutes of workout.

Fit and Food - 23.January

Food:

Breakfast: Toast with nutella, honey, butter and jam. Green tea.
Lunch: Spaghetti with tomato sauca and cheese.
Dinner: three oranges and one banana.

Because i sleep so long these days, my breakfast and my luch are really late too. Therefore when it comes to dinner i don't feel really hungry..


Excercise:

aerobic warm up,
pilates (standing pilates),
pilates (stretching),
in the evening pregnancy yoga.

That makes all in all 26 minutes work out and 25 minutes relaxation.

How to carry your baby around...

When it comes to bringing your baby from A to B, there are several methods to do so.
The two biggest alternatives might be to put the baby in a stroller

or to carry it around with yourself using a formm of baby carrier.
Babies are all different, so my brother for example only wanted to lay in a stroller were he had lots of space to move around whereas i wouldn't lay for one minute in a stroller but wanted to be as close to my mom as i could.
I personally prefer the baby carrier for several reasons:
- it is less expensive
- it is healthy for the physical development of the baby
- it keeps the baby calm as it feels always close to the parent and therefor safe.

Baby carriers come in different styles and variations. Most common are the carrier that has a more stable structure

and the blanket which can be folded very very small.

The carrying blankets are more healthy for the physical development of the baby and can be used from the first day up to about 3 years.
It allows for many different carrying positions and is the most cost effective carrying option.

Fit and Food - 22.January

Food:

Breakfast: Toast with butter and avocado, green tea
Lunch: broccoli, potato and sauce hollandaise

Dinner: tomato salad, two boiled eggs and a banana milkshake

Excercise:
aerobic warmup, pilates stretching, yoga relax (before sleeping)
thats 16 minutes workout and 25 minutes relaxing.

Fit and Food - 21.January

Exercising during pregnancy is extremely benefitial for the mothers health, for the baby's health, to make labor easier and to enable a natural and fast birth.
Knowing that i surfed the internet and found some youtube videos with exercise routines specially for pregnant ladies.
I have 3 routines:
- aerobic: warm up, different strenght workouts, stretching
- pilates: four different workouts, last being a stretching one
- yoga: relaxing and breathing techniques to relax mother and baby and prepare for labor

My big pregnancy-plan is to take time to eat healthy and to exercise every day.
To see how successful i am in realising that plan ill write it down day by day, hopefully.

Saturday, 21. January:

Food:
Breakfast: Toast with butter, honey and jam. Green Tea.
Lunch: Spaghetti with a sauce of pesto and cream cheese.
Dinner: Vietnamese raw springrolls:

take rice paper

Make a sauce from fish sauce, water, garlic, spring onions, carrot and a hint of sugar.

Cut salad, spring onions, cucumber, carrots and grilled beef.

Fill the rice paper, roll it into a roll, dip it in the sauce and ENJOY!

I really loved it soo much!!!


Excercise:

It seems i am really unfit at the moment which made me actually quite sad.
I did my aerobic warm up which lasts only 6 minutes and that was really hard hehehehe! So hard that after that I went directly to aerobic stretching and that was it for the day.
But before going to bed i did the Yoga excercise which is really nice and relaxing, loved it!

So that was the day, lets see how the other days will go...

Movie: I don't know how she does it

I just watched Sara Jesicca Parkers new movie "I don't know how she does it"

It's about a working mom who tries to combine her family life with her career and by doing so she almost looses her family until she realises that she need to cut back on her career to save her family and marriage.



It's actually a quite basic story and probably a bit too dramatic.

Personally I would never want to live a life like that and I am more than happy to have a husband who totaly supports me in that!
I want to be a stay at home mom and i strongly believe that's my responsibility in this life.
My own mom didn't have the choice after my father became sick. So if we will be one day in financial need sure I will work to support my family. But inshallah that will never happen and all of us stay inshallah healthy and ok so that i can fulfill what I see as my responsibility. To be a woman, a wife and a mom.

And once again, my dear wonderful husband, thank you so so much for beeing with me and supporting me always!

fabric options for a baby girl

If the baby is going to be a girl, here are my fabric options for my DIY projects:

And again first the options for diaper bag, nursing cover, "plush pad" and car seat cover:

For the baby blanket i have again a cotton flanell and a satin. for the flanell i have one plain option and one with roses.

As with the fabrics for a boy i will order fabric examples to see which fabrics are best.