Yeah Baby!: The Modern Mama

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JILLIAN MICHAELS is the foremost fitness expert in the world and a renowned life coach. From her hit televisions shows, extensively successful fitness DVDs and exercise streaming platform fitfusion.com, 8 New York Times bestselling books, live speaking engagements, award-winning podcast, a soon-to-be-released iPhone app (which will allow users to train with Jillian both in preset and dynamic workouts), social media channels and her personal website jillianmichaels.com?she has built an international community of followers 100 million + strong. Jillian

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CHAPTER 1START ME UP:What to Do Before You Get PreggersTime to get knocked up!It's kind of ironic, isn't it? As younger women, we spend a considerable amount of effort trying not to get pregnant. Then, when the time comes to completely reverse that mind-set, it can be a little disorienting. Please don't let me be pregnant somehow turns into Please let me be pregnant! The average woman in the United States spends 3 decades of her life (not necessarily all in a row) trying to avoid pregnancy and about 5 years trying to get pregnant, being pregnant, and going through the postpartum period, to get the two children most women say they want.1However, during those 5 precious years (for you it may be only 1 or it could be a decade), how you live your life can help in big ways to determine how easily you will become a future mom. Although not everyone does it, planning and prepping your body appropriately for fertility and a healthy pregnancy are essential--both for you and for your baby.If you are already pregnant, you could skip straight to Chapter 2, but I hope you will read this chapter anyway. You might learn some good stuff that will still be relevant to you. If not, let's start the preparation process for the pregnancy to come. And it is a process--an important one. Maybe you didn't expect that. And maybe you are trying to guess what I am getting at: \"I am at a healthy weight.\" \"I have no fertility issues that I am aware of.\" \"What is she talking about?\"Not to worry. I'm gonna tell you.OUR INADVERTENT PATH TO PREGNANCY PLANNINGI don't want to jump ahead too much, but in an attempt to stress the significance of this chapter let me say the following: Thankfully, Heidi is gay. No, it isn't because we like rainbows and pride parades. It's because we were doing IUI (intrauterine insemination), aka the turkey baster method, which forced us to the doctor before Heidi was pregnant and not after, like most heterosexual couples I know.And these doctors asked a million questions, sent her to several other doctors, and ran a battery of tests, which I initially thought unnecessary and inconvenient. \"We're gay,\" I thought, \"not infertile, for God's sake! Get the baster and shoot her up. This is such a waste of time!\" I was incredibly impatient and annoyed, until those tests revealed some surprising and extremely significant results.It turns out Heidi had uterine polyps, a definite roadblock to conceiving naturally. Had we been a typical heterosexual couple, we likely would have tried to get pregnant for 2 years before discovering something was wrong. And had Heidi actually managed to get pregnant in spite of those polyps, she had thyroid issues she was unaware of, which could have caused major complications during her pregnancy, or even caused infertility, had they not been addressed beforehand.As grateful as I finally was to have had this utterly inadvertent intervention, I was also a bit stunned. I remember thinking, \"Why doesn't everybody go through this process?\" If a perfectly healthy young woman found these unexpected conditions, wouldn't all couples want to know what their health status is before they start trying? Think of the time and heartache it would save those with fertility issues left in the dark month after month, wondering why the at-home pregnancy tests kept coming up negative.Even more importantly, wouldn't everyone want to find out if they have any issues that could cause problems during and even after the pregnancy and resolve them ahead of time? Why don't all doctors recommend this to all their patients before they try to conceive--not just the gay ones sent to the fertility clinic as a \"formality\"?I was also left wondering why a young, healthy woman would be hyperthyroid. And why was her uterus covered in polyps? Heidi saw her ob-gyn for regular checkups. Why didn't somebody catch this ages ago? Why hadn't her ob-gyn asked her if she planned on getting pregnant at any point, so all these issues could have been identified and rectified much sooner? This is really when my gears began turning. How could this whole process be backward for the majority of our population?But there is much to tell, so let's start at the beginning. Don't worry, we aren't going back to the big bang--I mean the beginning of how Heidi and I came to learn ab