Tips for a Healthy Pregnancy

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Tips for a Healthy Pregnancy

Tips for a healthy pregnancy

See your practitioner before becoming pregnant. Start changing your food habits to include a healthy variety of foods. Exercise! Starting now will help you stay in shape during pregnancy, can lower your risk of miscarriage, and has been proven to help reduce labor complications and length. Educate yourself!

Eat a new vegetable you've never tried. Check out a book on pregnancy. Figure out what to do about chemical birth control, like the birth control pill. Stop smoking. There are many programs to help you.

Take a prenatal vitamin. They can be prescribed by your practitioner or you can buy them over the counter. Ensure it contains 0.4 mg of folic acid. Ask your partner to join you on your new healthy habit changes.

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Track your cycles. Learning what you can about your cycles will help determine when you ovulate and when you conceived. These make for more accurate due dates. If you need a new practitioner, interview before you become pregnant.

Ask your friends about pregnancy and parenthood.

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Avoid chemicals that could possibly harm your baby. You can find these at work, in your home, and just about anywhere, be environmentally sensitive.

See your dentist before you get pregnant and brush your teeth daily. Tell any medical professional that you may be pregnant if you are trying to get pregnant. This can prevent exposure to harmful tests and chemicals if you are pregnant and don't know it yet.

Stop changing cat litter.

Remember, it can take up to a year to become pregnant. If you have been actively trying for a year or more than six months if you are over 35, see your practitioner.

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Act pregnant. This includes not drinking alcohol, even while trying to conceive. There is no known safe level during pregnancy and alcohol can cause birth defects.

Announce your pregnancy when you are ready.

Talk to your parents, what do you want to take from their experiences? How do you want to be different?

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Rest when you can. Nap!

Start a journal or a pregnancy blog.

Use non-medicinal remedies for problems like nausea, heartburn, and constipation.

Drink six - eight ounce glasses of water a day.

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Read yet another book! Join a prenatal yoga or exercise class.

Keep your prenatal appointments with your midwife or doctor. This will help ensure that if you have any problems that they are caught early and kept to a minimum.

Take an early pregnancy class.

Remember to add 300 - 500 calories a day while pregnant. Tour your selection of birth facilities before making a choice if you are not having a home birth.

Review the signs of premature labor and warnings signs for when to call your practitioner.

Baby sit a friend's baby and learn a bit about caring for a newborn.

Take a childbirth class. Sign up early to ensure you get the class and dates that you want.

Exercise tips for a healthy pregnancy

Swimming is great in late pregnancy. It can help relieve a lot of aches and pains and makes you feel weightless.

Stretch before bed to help prevent leg cramps. Continue to exercise, even if you have to slow down. This will help you recover more quickly.

Write a birth plan. Something to help you clarify what you want or need for your birth experience. Share this with your practitioners and those you have invited to your birth.

Have film and cameras ready!

Practice relaxation whenever you can. Try for at least once a day.

Do pelvic tilts to help with late pregnancy back pain. It will help relieve your pain and even encourage the baby to assume a good birth position.

Pack your bags if you are going to a birth center or hospital. Don't forget your insurance cards, pre-registration forms, camera, birth plan, etc. Review the signs of labor and warning signs. Take a picture of yourself before the baby comes!

Take a breastfeeding class to help prepare you for the realities of breastfeeding.

I hope you have enjoyed these tips for a healthy pregnancy. These are just ideas, don't feel overwhelmed if you can't do them all.

Happy Pregnancy!