A pregnant smoker is at higher risk for problems during her pregnancy. Babies born to mothers who smoke have a lower average birthrate, an increased rate of premature birth, and are at greater risk of death from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), than babies born to non-smokers.

Studies have shown that women who quit smoking early in their pregnancies can reduce risk of damage to their baby. Even quitting in last month of pregnancy can help your baby by increasing amount of oxygen available to him/her at time of delivery.

The third crucial thing you can do to have a healthy baby is to eat healthy foods--particularly fruits, vegetables, low-fat milk, eggs, cheese and whole grains. A healthy baby really starts with healthy foods. When you are pregnant, everything you eat or drink nourishes your baby as well. That is why it is so very important to eat a healthy diet. A pregnant woman only needs about 300 extra calories a day to meet her needs and provide her baby necessary nutrients. Therefore, your goal should be to highly nutritious foods while avoiding excessive calories, fat, sugar, and sodium.

A fourth way to help have a healthy baby is to take care of YOUR health and exercise sensibly and regularly. Exercise promotes muscle tone, strength and endurance--three qualities that can help you better carry weight you gain during pregnancy, prepare you for stress of labor, and make it easier to get back in shape after your delivery. You can't beat walking or swimming or overall fitness during pregnancy. Again, as with most pregnancy related topics, check with your doctor before starting any exercise routine.

Finally, have your baby checked by a doctor or health care provider right after birth and throughout childhood. It is important to keep your health care appointments for both you and your baby, to get proper medical attention you may both require.

Best wishes for an uneventful, healthy pregnancy and a happy, healthy new "bundle of joy" in near future.

The spoken word has more power than just thinking an affirmation. That is because we are bringing spoken word into physical plane. Write your affirmations down. Put them on sticky notes and paste them where you will see them often.

Now when you begin to heal all kinds of old stuff may start coming up. Just acknowledge it and if there is something you can heal about it then do that with affirmations and visualizing it is healed. But do not wonder why it is coming up Universe is trying to show you what caused dis-ease. You also may draw a lot of annoying people into your life. They annoy you for they are a mirror of what you need to heal. The universe has a way of presenting us with a mirror of our dis-ease so we can see it. That is one of ways I feel Universe shows its love for us.

Continue believing you are already healed. This is important do not talk in terms of healing but see yourself as already healed. To your mind, body and soul being abundantly healthy

Today I choice joy