Monthly Archives: January 2019

Find Out How to get a Fair Settlement After a House Fire

 

Few experiences are as devasting as a house fire. Leaving your home can be a traumatic experience and losing your home can leave you unsettled, making it difficult to recover.

Emotional distress is common after a house fire. Evacuating, relocating, and rebuilding is stressful and emotionally exhausting. The emotional distress can make it difficult to move forward, especially when it comes to your insurance claim.

Home insurance typically covers three types of expenses after a fire:

  1. a) Structure/Dwelling
  2. b) Personal Contents
  3. c) Additional Living Expenses

These three categories should cover a) rebuilding your home after a fire, b) replacing personal belongings lost in the fire, and c) the increased cost of living while you are out of your damaged home, such as staying in a hotel.

It can be expensive to rebuild after a fire, and you need the fair compensation from your insurance company.

If you don’t have the cash to cover your living expenses, it can be tempting to accept any offer just so that you can get back on your feet. Before you accept, consider asking your insurance company for a cash advance on your claim. The insurance company is responsible for making sure you don’t suffer undue financial hardship. The advance will be deducted from your final claim, but accepting an advance does not mean that you’ve accepted the insurance company’s initial offer, either.

If you need help with a home insurance claim after a fire or flood, you won’t find many law firms that practice directly in this area. In Canada, only one firm practices solely in this area: Virani Law. They negotiate on your behalf with insurance companies. While they operate similar to an independent adjuster in some respects, they use their legal knowledge and negotiation skills to their benefit, and can also take your insurance company to mediation, or through the legal system if your family isn’t getting what they deserve.

Most negotiations resolve without ending up in mediation or court, as both the homeowners and the insurance companies want to avoid the extra time and added expense. A qualified lawyer can use both insurance and legal knowledge to recover more fulsome compensation for your family. To learn more about how your family can get everything you’re entitled to from your insurance company, visit Viranilaw.ca and ask about how it works.

Many people assume that calling a lawyer will be too expensive. However, the billing model used by Virani Law focuses on helping families who have been through a fire or flood maximize their return. Clients only pay legal fees on the extra funds your lawyer is able to obtain. It’s an unconventional billing system designed to protect families.

A fire is a traumatic experience for families. As you put the pieces back together, you don’t want to stress over your insurance claim. Better compensation can help make your rebuild and recovery smoother and less frustrating after the devastation of a fire. Get professional help to look after your family’s best interests.

Your home insurance claim shouldn’t be complicated. A law firm can take the stress out of your insurance claim while increasing the compensation offered to you by the insurance company. This will help you collect what’s fair.

Tricks for Dealing with Fussy Eaters

 

 

It’s hard enough for you to eat your own vegetables let alone getting your kids to do it. Kids would be perfectly happy eating chicken nuggets, cereal, and pizza every day. Everyone can use many more servings of veggies and fruits in their day, especially young children who need the nutrients for proper development.

Unfortunately, kids can be fussy eaters with any type of food, even the ones you think they would like! Here are a few tips and tricks for convincing (or downright tricking) kids into eating what you need them to.

Before we get to fussy eating and drinking behaviours, one special category is taking medication. It’s difficult and uncomfortable for many kids to ingest a pill whole. Vitamins come in easy to chew and flavourful formats, but regular prescriptions from their doctor can be hard to swallow. Pharmaceutical compounding is a service provided by some pharmacies that customizes medications by creating specific doses, formulations, formats, and flavours to make them easier to take. Pills could be chewable or transformed into a liquid, given an appealing taste, or turned into a topical application. You can learn what a compounding pharmacy can do for you here.

Hide & Eat – Try sneaking foods into things that they like, like peas and carrots into mashed potatoes, or more fresh berries into a yogurt snack. Serve a smoothie or a 100% fruit pop instead of a salty snack. Cook up some vegetable fritters instead of French fries. Pureeing vegetables and fruits is another good way to sneak extra nutrients into another recipe you’re making. Changing the texture can make things more palatable as well.

Bargaining – Yes, it’s one of the stages of grief, and it can work for getting your stubborn little one to eat at least some of their healthy side dish. Make a deal that if they take x-number of bites they can stop. Or they’ll get to enjoy another food they prefer if they finish that small pile of grilled vegetables first. Try to avoid doing this frequently with desserts, but if all else fails, a cookie is a powerful motivator.

Mix it Up – Provide variety on their plate of multiple kinds of vegetables rather than forcing them to eat a giant glob of spinach or pile of broccoli. Learn if they prefer a raw or cooked version. Veggies can be more palatable with a healthy dipping sauce or dressing. Cooked veggies can also be with a bit of extra flavouring. Remember that juices are not nearly as healthy as the real thing, especially when it comes to fruit juice, which is essentially sugar water.

Share your Plate – Kids always seem to have their eyes on your plate instead of theirs. Put some of the things you wish they were eating on it and offer to share.

Realize the Benefits – Encourage eating through talking about the benefits of healthy foods. Relate these qualities to a familiar character from a book or TV show they like. ‘If you eat all your carrots and broccoli, you’ll grow to be as strong as Batman, you know.’

Cut Down on Snacks – A good point for adults to remember, too. Eating too much in-between meals will spoil an appetite, and calorie requirements are being met by less desirable foods instead.

Let them Help – Kids will be more excited to eat something that they helped prepare. Plus, it’ll give you a fun activity to do together and a chance to teach them about recipes and nutrition.

A Short Guide to Disc Degeneration

 

 

Picture this: you are bending over to put your socks on when you are greeted by a sharp, searing bolt of pain in your lower back. It is incredibly unpleasant, and has seemingly come out of nowhere. Long after your socks are on, it continues as a nagging pain, sometimes peaking in intensity when you bend a certain way, or sit down too quickly. You might be suffering from something called disc degeneration.

What Is Disc Degeneration?

You can think of discs as the shock absorbers and pressure distributors of the spine, little cushions wedged between the hard vertebrae. Along with your facet joints, your discs help guide and facilitate the movement of your spine, and the gel they contain in their nucleus pulpsosus helps absorb shock.

Over time and with continued stress, the nucleus pulposus may be pushed backwards, its gel interior bulging or herniating from the vertebrae, and small tears may appear in the outer disc wall, called the annulus fibrosus. The nucleus pulposus will lose some water over time as well, rendering its shock absorption less effective.

What Symptoms Should You Watch For?

Shooting pain, or “lightning bolt” pain in your lower back or neck could tip you off to disc degeneration. It may also manifest itself through leg pain, or numbness and weakness around the legs and buttocks. Commonly, it is acutely felt when bending or twisting a certain way.

If you experience any kind of back pain, regardless of its duration or severity, you should make it a point to visit a chiropractor, who can work with you, develop a treatment plan and help you say goodbye to your back pain for good.

How to Avoid It

There is no way to completely avoid disc degeneration, but by practicing healthy spinal posture, maintaining the natural curvature of your back over time, you can keep its effects to a minimum. If you are experiencing pain from disc degeneration, or to avoid further pain, certain activities involving twisting and bending should be avoided.

How to Deal with the Back Pain

As mentioned, the best way to deal with back pain caused by disc degeneration is to visit a chiropractor. They will give you pointers on stretching, sitting and sleeping, as well as advise on certain daily routines that might be aggravating the pain. They may also perform spinal adjustments to help mitigate the pain.

Especially if the pain is accompanied by numbness, tingling and weakness, it is important to consult with a corrective chiropractor. While other drastic measures are available for severe disc degeneration, your first line of defense should be your chiropractor.

It might seem like putting on your sock caused you the pain, but it was actually the painful result of a long period of disc degeneration. If you are experiencing lighting bolt back or neck pain, chronic pain or any other symptom congruent with disc degeneration, the sooner you get it checked out, the better. Pain relief should never have to wait.

10 essential back to school supplies

End of holidays and beginning of new sessions can be both exciting as well as stressful for moms. You are happy because your kids are going back to school which means you will finally have some uninterrupted hours to devote to work. At the same time, there are zillions of works to be done before you have made sure that your kids are ready for their first day. Shopping back-to-school supplies is where it all begins. To make the daunting task easier, here’s a list of 10 essential back to school supplies: 

1. Backpack

Rampant opening and closing of backpacks throughout the session ensures that the zippers are no longer working when it is time to start a new session. The colours from the broken crayons and capless textas have comfortably discoloured the backpacks beyond recognition. You simply cannot think of sending your kids back to school with the same backpacks. A replacement then becomes only a bare necessity.

Moreover, a new grade signifies many ‘new’ in your kids’ life. They grow a little more, their needs change, the way they want to portray themselves also change. A backpack is an extension of this new ‘them.’ So, try to know what they are looking for in their new backpack and get them the one that matches best with their expectations. Want to win hearts? Buy your kids their personalised backpacks.

2. Lunch bag and drink bottle

Growing kids are the fussiest eaters. But you need to keep a constant tab on what they are eating. An organized lunch bag is what you can think of buying to make your little ones not miss the nutrition they need. Put a new water bottle inside the side pocket of the carry-all and you are sorted for the day.

3. Drink bottle holder

If your kids are already carrying lunch bags and the bags have somehow managed to survive the year-long torture, you better give them a miss and instead, invest in sturdy drink bottle holders. Kids grow a habit of losing water bottles in school every alternate day. So, having them to carry the bottles in separate drink bottle holders might help them change their habit. The bottles will also be saved from being dropped and broken during transport. Now, these are all possibilities but what is the harm in trying!

4. Pencil Case

No matter how many times you have bought a new, trendy pencil case for your kids in the last one year when it is time to send them back to school you have to again buy a new one with of course, the essentials inside. Make sure the pencil cases are made of fabric so that you can wash them when they are dirty. A few pockets in there will come handy too. Your kids may have much serious stuff like stickers to keep in their pencil cases, you see!

5. Labels

You will need them in bundles- book labels to paste on the book and copy covers, address labels for use on the backpacks, and clothing labels for the little shirts and jackets which often land up in the school’s Lost & Found room. You may also add those mini pencil labels to your buy list. Designed with durability in mind, mini labels can be used on a wide variety of school items including pencils, pens, lunch bags, and stationery.

6. Bag tags

Excursions and day-outs are a regular affair to beat the back-to-school blues in kids. Keep your stock of bag tags ready. These are perfect accessories for your kids to keep an eye on their belongings. They are tastefully styled to be used with backpacks, lunch bags and even travel cases.

7. Waist bag

In addition to regular back to school items, there can be a lot of other things that kids would like to carry with themselves. The glue sticks and glowing pens, mini books and secret diaries are too valuable a treasure for them to leave at home. Get them trendy waist bags to carry these things at ease. They will have a gala time flaunting them in front of their friends. Also, managing their own things will give them a sense of responsibility.

Be a smart mom, stash in a small pack of tissues in the bum bag. Your kids will be able to access them easily at times other than the usual lunch breaks.

8. Sports Bag

After-school extracurricular activity classes are the most fun-filled times of the day for kids. They play around and sweat it out at the ground learning trivia of various sports. It is important that you equip them with all the right sports and safety gears. Buy a spacious sports bag and pack in the essentials of the activity they are engaged in. Don’t forget to keep a personalised towel, a few adhesive bandages, and a water bottle inside the bag. Sports bags can also be used as overnight bags during camps and cub sleepovers. 

9. Paper, notebooks and other stationery

Make a list of hard-covers and soft-covers and all the assorted paper varieties that your kids are likely to need in the upcoming one year period. You may have to top up later but be ready with the initial stock. Art paper, cellophane, and coloured paper are just a few of the things that you will soon be asked to purchase when the school reopens. Don’t forget plastic folders for the kids to carry their paper items to the craft classes without tattering them. Other must buys are crayons, glitters, brushes, tapes, glue guns, paper cutters, and stencils etc.

10. Storage box

Your kids will not be carrying these to school but you do understand that they are growing up and they will need more storage spaces at home to keep their things safe and organized. Compact in size and sturdy in make, the storage boxes allow them to keep all their craft items bundled up at one place without worrying about being too meticulous. 

Creative Ways to personalise your kids school supplies

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Quick and Easy Back to school Lunch Ideas to give you a smooth start

How to Budget for Meals and Food

 

 

Ever gone into a grocery store hungry? It’s one of the most important things to avoid when trying to save money and when trying to avoid impulse buys. When you’re hungry in a grocery store you’re likely tired, agitated, and attracted to all sorts of foods that you didn’t plan on buying. When it comes to the amount of money you spend on food, some simple budgeting techniques can go a long way.

How Much Are We Spending?

According to Statistics Canada, the average Canadian household spends about $214 per person per month on food, excluding going out to eat. For those who are single or live in remote parts of the country or cities with high living costs, that number can be even higher. Some financial advisors recommend that consumers budget between $200 to $250 per person for grocery money each month. If you also get your toiletries and household items at the grocery store, you should bump that number up a little bit.

How Much Can You Spend?

When the holidays and special occasions come around, we typically spend a little more on food. If you want to know how to budget for holidays, click here to learn more about how to spend wisely during that busy time of year.

Aside from the times when we tend to spend a little more, there are professionals out there who suggest that a family of four can comfortably aim to spend only $125 per person per month on groceries — that adds up to over $2,000 in annual savings. Being able to plan for those kinds of savings can be a real lifesaver in any emergency financial situation.

When money’s tight and something comes up, not having an emergency fund can cause undue stress. The good news is that resources like online payday loans from GoDay can give you that extra cash before your next payday comes around. Knowing that there’s options, however, doesn’t mean you should forego healthy grocery budgeting.

Use Rewards Programs

Rewards credit cards that offer cashback and loyalty programs can really take some of the edge off of your grocery budget. Learn the rules of your rewards system inside out so you don’t get caught with any unexpected fees or surprises and so that you can maximize your benefits.

Look for things like sign-up bonuses but don’t get carried away— overspending and getting caught in debt is not a positive step towards financial planning. Also, be wary of coupon madness. While some bargains might seem too good to pass up, if you don’t actually need the food, then it’s not a bargain. Be smart with your points and spend strategically using the right credit cards when budgeting for your groceries.

Plan in Advance

One of the most impactful things you can do to shrink your grocery budget by up to 25% is to plan out your meals and go to the grocery store with a plan in mind. Plan to eat vegetarian every once in a while: produce is cheap, healthy, and can go a long way if you know what to do with it. Lay out a plan and stick to it and you’ll be amazed by how much you can save by spending smart on food.

The Wonders of Fermented Ingredients for Skin Care

 

 

You’ve probably heard by now about the wonders that fermented ingredients can do for you, inside and out. Eating fermented foods is good for your gut environment and flora because they contain those pro-biotics you’ve also likely heard an earful about! Those good bacteria can improve digestion, reduce inflammation, boost immunity, and help manage a healthy weight.

Well, good news, fermented ingredients are also great for skin! The fermentation process concentrates nutrients and allows them to be more easily absorbed by the skin’s upper layers. Fermented herbs, fruits, and other plants can be found in cleansers, moisturizers, and masks to treat problems like dry skin and the effects of premature aging.

Check out some of the following wonder ingredients found in coveted skincare products.

Pitera™

Scientists of SK II, a maker of top quality, cult favourite skincare products, when touring a Japanese sake brewery discovered the soft, youthful appearance of the tochi masters’ hands that were constantly drenched in the fermentation process. Through this, they developed Pitera™, a nutrient-rich ingredient in their skincare products.

Find it in: You’ll want to try these high quality masks and skin care products in SK II’s celebrity-favourite line. The Facial Treatment Essence looks and feels like water and provides hydration and promotes cell renewal. It contains over 90% Pitera™ and is packed with vitamins, amino acids, minerals, and organic acids, for anti-aging, smoothing, brightening, and moisturizing effects.

Yerba Santa

The leaves of this herb are traditionally used in medicine. Yerba Santa is used to aid respiratory conditions, fever, dry mouth, muscle spasms, and to loosen phlegm. As a topical treatment, it can treat bruises, wounds, bites, and relieve joint pain. It is also fermented and used in skin products.

Find it in: Peter Thomas Roth Viz-1000. Along with several other natural ingredients like honey, algae, and olive oil extract, this moisturizing complex uses fermented Yerba Santa, which mimics glycoproteins to help skin retain moisture. The formula also has a super-concentrated hyaluronic acid complex to create an invisible veil of hydration, smooths fine lines, and it restores a youthful radiance.

Pear Juice

Fermentation increases the nutrient and antioxidant concentration and content of an ingredient. Like how wine has a higher antioxidant content than grapes, so too does fermented pear juice than a fresh pear. Fermented juices are therefore an excellent ingredient for skin care.

Find it in: Koh Gen Do Macro Vintage Royal Massage Milk. A serum-like massage cream that has wonderful anti-aging properties that quenches the skin. It absorbs quickly, and the pear juice nourishes the skin while boosting antioxidant protection power.

Honey

Honey is very nutritious to eat because it contains antioxidants, nutrients, and can help improve cholesterol levels. It can also do amazing things for the skin. (Thank-you, once again, for everything, bees!) One Korean beauty secret is using honey on the skin, leaving it hydrated, dewy, and plump. And fermented honey adds further nourishment to the skin, naturally.

Find it in: Origins Clear Improvement™ Charcoal Honey Mask. It gently purifies and detoxifies with the power of bamboo charcoal to deep clean and draw out impurities, and golden wildflower and fermented honey nourish all skin types.

How To Help Your Husband Increase His Fertility

So you and your husband have decided you want a baby? It’s a wonderful thing to do – and a massive step in life – but it’s not necessarily going to be as easy as you might think! For a start, how fertile is your husband, and what is his sperm count? It is quite common for men to produce very low amounts of sperm, which can hinder the possibility of the woman becoming pregnant, but don’t worry – we have some tips to increase his sperm output without any problem at all!

What Do You Eat?

It is a fact that certain foods and other substances that we eat regularly have an effect on sperm production – some positive, and others negative. Let’s have a look at the stuff he should not be eating if he wants fertile sperm in decent amounts:

  • Sugar – this is a definite no-no if you are looking at fertility, as sugar is very bad for sperm production. The problem is that sugar is everywhere. Even food you think is healthy may contain sugar in surprising amounts, so check what’s in the cupboard and get rid of all the sugar content.
  • Processed carbs – also everywhere, this is in white bread, in cakes, in many other items that you may eat every day, and processed food is not natural, so it’s not good for sperm and fertility.
  • Alcohol – sorry about this, but he’s going to have to cut out a couple of nights out with the lads if he wants to perform!

Now let’s look at the ingredients that will increase his sperm count:

  • Green veg – spinach, asparagus, anything that is rich in vitamin C will help increase the count.
  • Carrots – it’s the vitamin A in carrots that does the job, and will increase sperm count notably.
  • Garlic – don’t have too much of this, for obvious reasons, but it does add volume.
  • Bananas – another excellent choice, bananas contain elements that increase the libido.
  • Water – water flushes the toxins out of the body, which will increase the quality and virility of the semen.

That’s just a few, and before we finish, we need to talk about superfoods and supplements. Superfoods such as ginseng, pumpkin seeds and maca root are all powerful ingredients that will help not only increase the sperm count, but will give him energy and drive beyond his normal performance, so are an important consideration.

Finally, if to get hard for longer and deliver the right load, try Semenax, a pill that contains all the right ingredients listed above, and more. These pills work, they are tried and tested, and they are the easy way forward, and they will enable him to perform beyond your wildest dreams.

So, the trick is for him to eat healthy food and add the volume pills to his intake, and you can both look forward to amazing, wonderful sex and the fertility you need to get pregnant, so good luck!

Why Choosing the Right Driving Instructor is Vital

Learning to drive is something that everyone wants to do when they are young and, if the opportunity is there, it is highly recommended that young people do learn to drive as it opens up a wealth of opportunities in terms of job applications. Employers like to see a clean driving licence as part of a cv, so it really is worth the effort.

If you are no longer in your teenage years it can still pay to learn to drive. The convenience of owning a car cannot be overstated; no more waiting in the rain for the bus or train to go to and from work, you can simply get in your car and go. So, what do you need to think about when you are looking to learn to drive? The first thing you should consider is finding a good driving instructor, and with many in the business this is not always the easiest choice.

Trust and Reassurance

A driving instructor is not just there to teach you to drive, but to help you gain the confidence in being on the road among other traffic. It is a daunting experience at first as while you do experience traffic as a passenger, it is not your responsibility to negotiate it. You need a driving instructor you can trust, and one that can give you the assurance of being able to help you gain the skills you need.

This means being tutored not only in the practical art of driving on the road, but also in the all-important theory test, which one must pass to get a full licence. We looked around for driving lessons in Renfrew and the surrounding areas and came across Freedom Driving Centre. They have more than 10 years of experience in teaching people how to drive, and also offer you a choice of male and female instructors if you prefer.

Solid Track Record

The instructors at Freedom Driving Centre have helped many pupils pass both parts of the test and gain a full licence, and the testimonials on the website point towards a team you can trust, and instructors who are adept at getting the best out of their pupils. They understand that each person will learn in a different fashion and at a different speed, and they cater their tutoring to each person individually. Friendly and professional, and with excellent rates, Freedom Driving Centre are certainly at the top of the list when it comes to finding a reputable and reliable driving instructor in the Renfrew area.

You can book your lessons online, they offer a door to door service and all their vehicles are modern cars with air conditioning and dual controls. They also offer tuition in motorway driving, something that is often overlooked in driving lessons. If you are looking to learn to drive, why not give Freedom Driving Centre a call, and one of the team will be more than happy to talk to you and arrange a first lesson.

Why Professional Interior Design is Worth the Investment

When it comes to redesigning a room, or even getting the design right for an entire house, it is tempting to try and do it all by yourself. After all, you know what you want and where, so why not just go ahead? That’s all very well, but what if you could engage the services of an expert interior designer and take things up a level? Put it this way – you pay a hairdresser to do your hair!

There are some people who are simply better at designing and arranging interiors, and that’s why they are the professionals. What benefit do you get from using the services of an interior designer? First, you get their expertise in utilising the available space to the best effect. Then, you get the advantage of them having contacts in the fields involved – think furnishing, decoration, electronics, even construction – that you don’t have. Plus, you get the knowledge of someone who will work with you and listen to your ideas, then perfect them and put them into place.

The only problem is finding an interior designer who you can rely on to deliver the goods in a professional fashion at a sensible price, but we think we can help you there!

Edinburgh Interiors Experts

We’d like to suggest you take a look at the interior design portfolio of Gayfield Design, who operate in and around the Edinburgh area. They have many satisfied clients who have used their services to redesign single rooms, entire houses – sometimes working in listed and historic buildings – and also operate a consultancy service, so you can have them perfect your ideas and then put them into practice yourself, or use your own contractors to do the job.

Gayfield Design has access to the very best craftsmen in all the fields needed to execute interior design solutions, and you can consult with them on everything from carpentry to lighting, and they will be happy to discuss your ideas with you and offer their own solutions as to the best way to finish your project.

On Site Workshop

A further benefit of using Gayfield Design is that they also have a workshop on site, in which expert seamstresses can create handmade soft furnishings, blinds and curtains, so you have wonderful bespoke designs that are unique and of the highest quality. It is detail touches such as these that really makes Gayfield Design stand out from the crowd.

Interior design is not just decorating, it is an art in its own right. The talent of the expert will shine through in the final result, and even if you use Gayfield Design only for consultancy, you will be amazed how they can turn your ideas into reality improving on them all the while.

Whether you have one or two rooms or a whole house you need remodelling, talk to the team now and see how they can help, and you will soon see just how much you can gain from using the professionals.

5 Beauty Tips After Pregnancy That Will Help You Look Beautiful

After pregnancy, your life changes completely. You experience hormone fluctuations, changes in mood, your daily dynamic takes a sharp turn and you get no or very little sleep. Of course, all of these factors will contribute to how you look. You probably won’t be happy with it, but it doesn’t mean you will need a lot of time to go back to your old self. If you follow these 5 useful tips, you’ll manage to fight the consequences of a strenuous period you have been in and look as fresh and attractive as usual.

1. Help your hair

You have probably lost a lot of hair during pregnancy and it looks lifeless at the moment, but you can bring it back to life if you do the following:

– make sure you eat food rich with antioxidants, like apples, strawberries and prunes, which will strengthen the roots.

– use a gentle shampoo and a conditioner

– don’t tie your hair tightly, as it will make your hair fall off even more

– take vitamin supplements like Vitamin B and C to help your hair recover

– avoid chemical treatments like straightening or coloring your hair to prevent more hair loss.

– if you lose too much hair, have a short haircut, as it will look fuller.

2. Get rid of stretch marks

The best move is to prevent stretch marks the moment you find out you’re pregnant, by using moisturizer rich in olive oil on your breasts and belly. Massaging the breasts and belly while applying the oil will make sure they don’t appear. However, if they still appear, you can use a quality anti-stretch mark cream and start exercising and eating healthy to make your skin firmer. Of course, you first need to get the approval from your doctor that you can start with the exercises. It will probably be something of low or medium intensity, like yoga or brisk walking. Still, any type of exercise will help you get rid of or reduce the stretch marks faster.

3. Heal your skin

Your skin may be one of the most affected parts of your body. There are many skin problems that may appear after pregnancy. Acne is a common issue, so you need to cleanse your face twice a day. Make sure you use a mild cleanser, not an aggressive one. Also, use an oil-free moisturizer twice a day and have a soft peeling once a week. Always turn to natural ingredients like eucalyptus or Aloe Vera.

If your problem is pigmentation of the skin, there may be more than one solution, depending on how serious depigmentation is. The spots are likely to appear on your face. Some of them may disappear after a year, and some may only become lighter in time. To prevent new ones from appearing, use a sunscreen every day, even if you are in your home most of the time. Still, if you can’t simply wait and hope the spots will disappear over time while feeling low self-esteem, you can turn to professionals for help. As plastic surgeon Dr Ross Farhadieh states, even subtle procedures on your face can do wonders for your self-confidence.

4. Dark circles and swollen eyes

Dark circles are annoying because they make you look older but it’s hard to get rid of them because new mothers don’t get much sleep. The issue with water retention also makes your eyes look swollen. Still, there are ways to deal with these problems. Try to sleep when the baby sleeps even if it’s just for 20 minutes. While sleeping, make sure you have a thick pillow. Try to drink less fluid before going to bed, but drink at least 8 glasses of water throughout the day. When your eyes get swollen, use cucumber slices or potato to reduce the swelling. Use a concealer for dark circles and use a quality eye cream designed specifically for dark circles.

5. Pamper yourself with a spa day

As a new mother, you really deserve some time off. Get one day free and experience a full body massage and a spa treatment. You need to pamper yourself from time to time, as it will relax you both physically and mentally. You can find a couple of hours one day of the week to be completely alone and enjoy. This will definitely reflect on how you look.

All in all

Nobody says you should look awful just because you have given birth recently. You have every right to look amazing and to take care of yourself. If you are the best version of yourself, then it will reflect on how you take care of your baby.