Hello pregnant moms, Are you searching for tips to help you walk through the journey of pregnancy?
First of all, I want to wish on your pregnancy where emotions like happiness, anxiety, depression, sad and much more start playing on your mood swings, but still waiting for the moment to hold the bundle of joy.
Pregnancy is a beautiful thing where lots of changes take place both physically and mentally.
There is a saying in Tamil that “Pregnancy is equal to rebirth” As a woman faces tons of changes in their lifestyle and goes through an excruciating situation while placing her life at risk.
It is like sculpturing oneself to enter into the beautiful world of motherhood.
During this stage, we often search for lots of information on the internet in acquiring knowledge to ease things during our journey.
Here are some 13 powerful Tips for pregnant moms to follow for healthy and safe delivery
13 tips for Pregnant moms
- Maintain a healthy diet
- Cutting out caffeine and alcohol in your diet
- Exercise regularly
- Get a prenatal care
- Pay attention to your body
- Stay hydrated
- Write down essentials
- Change your chores
- Track your weight changes
- Relax yourself
- Make friends
- Adequate sleep
- Be aware of when to call your doctor
Maintain a healthy diet
- Maintaining a healthy diet is correlated to healthy birth weight, good brain development, which at the same time helps to overcome the birth deficiency in the child.
- Sticking to your healthy diet plan throughout the pregnancy, helps you to overcome the complications or health issues that arise in midway.
- Regular intake of fruits and vegetables, low fat or fat-free dairy products, protein-rich food helps us maintain a healthy weight and nutrition level in both mom and fetus.
- Selecting the food or drinks that are less in sugar, saturated fat, and sodium usually helps.
- By limiting the consumption of refined grains and starches that seem to be more in foods like cookies, white bread, and some snacks can aid us in achieving a healthy diet.
- Include lots of fish in your diet.
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Cutting out caffeine and alcohol intake in your diet
- Caffeine is a chemical found in coffee, tea, cola, and so on by reducing the intake of it usually helps to stay healthier for both mom and baby.
- Consumption of alcohol and caffeine has detrimental effects on both mom and fetus.
- When pregnant moms consume more caffeine, it may result in miscarriage or low birth weight in the baby, therefore, it is always better to limit the intake of caffeine.
Exercise regularly
- Staying active is vital as it helps you maintain good health, keeps you stress-free, improves circulation, keeps track of your weight gain, boosts your mood, and supports your sleep better.
- Whatever exercise you followed before getting pregnant can be done but with the consultation of your doctor.
- If you are new to exercising, then starting with gentle workouts seems to be better.
- Walking can be a great exercise as it doesn’t risk your joints and muscles.
Get prenatal care
- Taking prenatal care regularly as it helps to know the growth of mom and fetus, examining with scans, blood tests depending upon stages of pregnancy usually helps to stay on safer track.
- Consuming prenatal vitamins like folic acid, calcium, iron as prescribed by your doctor helps in your pregnancy.
- Avoid any misconception, by seeking advice from your doctor or health provider before starting or stopping any medication.
Pay attention to your body
- Paying attention to your body helps you understand what changes your body is undergoing.
- Starting from morning sickness (nausea and vomiting), which pregnant moms face during their first trimester, but it starts decreasing as they enter into the second trimester.
- Morning sickness is treated easily with medication prescribed by a doctor or some home remedies that can help.
- Lots of changes like frequent urination, lightheadedness, heartburn, constipation, skin changes, growing belly, and emotional changes take place, therefore paying close attention to your body helps you understand what timely action needed to be taken.
Stay hydrated
- Staying hydrated is crucial during pregnancy.
- Dehydration makes pregnancy complicated as it has an impact causing low amniotic fluid, inadequate breast milk supply, and premature labor.
- It may also lead to birth deficiency due to a lack of water and nutritional support for your baby.
- Drinking 8 cups of water per day usually help.
- Have a bottle of water with you and drink it frequently, never wait until you are thirsty to drink it.
- Eat hydrating foods.
Write down essentials
- Write down the things you need to take to the hospital for your labor to avoid the last-minute rush.
- Even if you are undergoing a C-section or normal one, a packed bag makes you feel relaxed at that time.
- Write the essentials for mom -to- be starting from Id card, glass( if you wear), charger, toiletries, nightgown, slippers, and so on.
- Write down the basic essentials for your newborn like clothes, waterproof covers, blankets, and so on.
Change your chores
- Chores that we do in our daily routines and during pregnancy should be changed.
- Chores done on days like cleaning pets, lifting heavy things, climbing stools or ladders are fine when you’re not pregnant.
- But we must be more cautious in avoiding some chores during our pregnancy like Moving furniture, Using chemical cleaning products standing for too long, Climbing tasks, etc.
Track your weight changes
- Maintaining a healthy weight gain and keeping track of it helps attain healthy development for both child and mom.
- Gaining a good amount of weight during pregnancy can avoid the risk of having a premature baby.
- Keeping track of weight right from the initial stage of your pregnancy helps you know where the variation of food is to be done that aids both mom and baby in staying healthy.
Relax:
- Relaxing helps the fetus to develop a happy, calm environment.
- Emotions like anxiety and stress can increase the particular hormone level in the body, which degrades the development of the body and brain of the baby.
- Have a Me time in a day, talk to your close ones, rest when needed, stay active, ask for help when you need it, Eat well, and so on.
Make friends
- As there are plenty of mood swings in pregnancy, it is good to be surrounded by positive people.
- Making friends with other pregnant moms helps to ease your feeling.
- Attending prenatal yoga classes or childbirth classes, talking with neighboured moms, can give ideas on how to overcome the postpartum depression that occurs during and after pregnancy.
Adequate sleep
- Adequate sleep helps in developing good health both physically and mentally in mom and fetus.
- If your sleep is getting disturbed at night, then having a nap during the day helps to attain good health.
- Normally a women sleeps up to 8 hrs, but once they are conceived duration increases to 10 hrs in a day.
Be aware of when to call your doctor
Being aware of when to call your doctor during pregnancy is crucial when you face any symptoms like
- Strong cramps
- Vaginal bleeding or leaking of fluid
- Dizziness or fainting
- Shortness of breath
- Decreased in baby movements and so on.
These 13 Powerful Tips help pregnant moms ease their tasks, like taking into consideration the pros and cons, how to stay healthy on and after their pregnancy journey, and so on.
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