Frequently asked questions: Expectant Mother's Journal
Q: Why use Expectant Mother’s Journal?
If you’re an expecting mother, even in your earliest stages of pregnancy you may feel overwhelmed with unfamiliar information. Losing track of appointments, expenses, what to buy, what to wear, how to care for yourself during the next few months?
So much to remember! Things to tell your doctor, potential baby names, people to notify of baby’s birth...the lists are endless!
Bringing a newborn into your life can generate uncertainty. At times you may feel overwhelmed with unfamiliar information concerning pregnancy, child birth, infant care and anticipated lifestyle changes. Conquer those apprehensions! Feel empowered using this Expectant Mother’s Journal – a tool that equips you for your parenting job and helps you manage your pregnancy and preparations for baby.
Writing details down in this organiser, with its 12 different note-keeping tools across 5 logical sections, provides clarity at a confusing and emotional time. The journal is valuable through pregnancy to delivery – records approximately 30 weeks.
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Q: This isn’t my first pregnancy, is it relevant to me?
Whether it’s your first time or not your pregnancy is an extraordinary undertaking. Your baby will be unique therefore your pregnancy and all the feelings and experiences that come with it are also unique.
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Q: In what ways is Expectant Mother’s Journal useful?
Just like our Australian bestselling New Mother’s Journal, the Expectant Mother’s Journal is a powerful yet easy-to-use tool. Information you write in this journal is information you will need or use. This is a practical tool for today’s pregnant woman living in an information saturated world.
We have designed Expectant Mother’s Journal to be portable so you can record things as soon as possible after they come to mind or your attention. It’s a place to write details down so you don’t forget them.
Remember, you may become very tired (whether your first pregnancy or not) as your pregnancy progresses. But the very thing about expecting a baby is that it brings an entire load of new information – data if you like – about stages of your pregnancy, medical appointments, arrangements to be made for baby’s birth, expenses, and maintaining your own health. Every page of your Expectant Mother’s Journal is designed for storing information once you become pregnant and become preparing for a newborn.
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Q: Do I have to use all of the sections and tools to benefit?
Not necessarily. Inside your journal, put to use what is relevant to you and your family. This is your pregnancy, your baby and your Expectant Mother’s Journal. Given its inexpensive cost, even using a few provided tools should ease your mind and determine your Journal to be priceless.
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Q: Can I trust that your organiser is helpful?
Expectant Mother’s Journal is inspired by actual child birth experiences of two mothers since 2004 and is a natural predecessor to our Australian bestseller New Mother’s Journal: A Practical Organiser – the organiser you use when baby arrives.
In developing both New Mother’s Journal and Expectant Mother’s Journal, group and one-on-one consultation was held with first-time mothers, mothers of multiple children, grandmothers, fathers, midwives and nurses specialising in post natal care at Belmont Private Hospital, Brisbane Centre for Post Natal Disorders.
Learnings from collective interviews, focus groups and testing experiences were incorporated within the Expectant Mother’s Journal prior to publication.
Our 5-sectioned organisers contain different sections for recording all types of information. Their compact, lightweight and attractive formats make our Journal series easy to pick up and start using at any time of the year.
Information recorded in your Expectant Mother’s Journal becomes invaluable during visits to your health practitioners. You can confidently report on your condition and experiences by citing notes recorded in your journal.
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Q: What do I need an ‘organiser’ for? I’ve got a great memory.
Your long term well being, and certainly brain memory function, may be improved by writing things down. Using a diary is advocated by time management experts and supported by members of the medical profession.
Psychiatry practitioners:
“Rumour has it that if you use a diary it will lead to “brain rot” because you are not using your brain…This is not true as a diary helps us to achieve more and we actually end up leading richer lives with much more stimulation for our upper storey.”
Time management practitioner:
“By writing down things to do, you'll reduce the mental clutter swimming around in your head. You'll sleep better, think more clearly and accomplish more.”
The concept of a personal organiser or diary is not a new idea. We’ve harnessed well-documented time management advice and recognised the need for a personal organising device relevant to an expectant mother.
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Q: Why should I buy the Expectant Mother’s Journal from mumentum.com.au?
mumentum’s owners - Carolynne Hassall and Rennay Little – are proudly the developers (authors) of Expectant Mother’s Journal, Health & Well-Being Journal and the Australian Bestselling New Mother’s Journal: A Practical Organiser.
mumentum is a distributor of Expectant Mother’s Journal in Australia and overseas.
At mumentum, you are provided additional first-hand product knowledge and support from the authors themselves via this website and email. If you have any questions or feedback, just email us at info@mumentum.com.au.
Finally, the two-piece set of Expectant Mother’s Journal and New Mother’s Journal makes a terrific gift for any expectant mother. mumentum’s online store provides a range of other practical lifestyle products aimed at helping parents function better in complicated times. Enjoy the ease and convenience of shopping with mumentum.
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