Healthy Pregnancy 50 Tips

Trying to have a baby? Being healthy before, during and after pregnancy involves many different aspects of your life. So I've compiled a quick list to help you stay on the healthy side.

1. Consult your doctor before becoming pregnant.
2. Start changing your eating habits to include a variety of healthy foods.
3. Exercise! Starting now will help you stay fit during pregnancy, can reduce the risk of miscarriage, and has been shown to help reduce birth complications and duration.
4. Educate yourself!
5. Eat a new vegetable you've never tried.
6. Check out a book about pregnancy.
7. Find out what to do with the chemical control of birth, like the pill.
8. Stop smoking. There are many programs to help you.
9. Take a prenatal vitamin. They may be prescribed by your doctor or you can buy without a prescription. Ensure that contains 0.4 mg of folic acid.
10. Ask your partner to join you in your new healthy habit changes
11. Track your cycles. Learn what you can about your cycles will help determine when you ovulate and when conception. This makes for more accurate due dates.
12. If you need a new practitioner interview, before becoming pregnant.
13. Ask your friends about pregnancy and parenthood.
14. Avoid chemicals that could harm your baby. You can find these at work, at home, and anywhere, be sensitive to the environment.
15. Visit your dentist before becoming pregnant and brush your teeth every day
16. Tell your medical professional you can be pregnant if you are trying to get pregnant. This can prevent exposure to harmful chemicals testing and if you are pregnant and not know it yet.
17. Failure to change the cat litter.
18. Remember, you can take a year to get pregnant. If you have been actively trying for a year or more than six months if they are over 35, consult your doctor.
19. Law pregnant. This does not include alcohol, even when trying to conceive. There is no safe level during pregnancy and alcohol can cause birth defects.
20. Announce your pregnancy when ready.
21. Talk to your parents, what do you take from your experiences? How can you be different?
22. Rest when you can. Siesta!
23. Start a journal or blog of pregnancy
24. Use non-medicinal remedies for problems such as nausea, heartburn, and constipation.
25. Drink six to eight glasses of eight ounces of water a day.
26. Read another book!
27. Join a prenatal yoga or exercise class.
28. Keep your prenatal appointments with your midwife or doctor. This will help ensure that if you have any problems detected early and kept to a minimum.
29. Take a class in pregnancy.
30. Remember to add 300 to 500 calories per day during pregnancy
31. Tour of the selection of light fixtures before making a decision if you are not having a home birth.
32. Review the signs of preterm labor signs and warnings of when to call your doctor.
33. Talk to local doulas and start interviewing. The doula can help to have a shorter labor, safer and more satisfying.
34. Keep a food diary to make sure you keep up with their daily needs.
35. If you are decorating your home or daycare to remember to avoid fumes often associated with paint and wallpaper. You may have friends do the heavy lifting while helping to make sandwiches for them. Keep windows open!
36. Babysit a friend's son and learn a little about caring for a newborn.
37. Take a childbirth class. Register early to ensure you get the class and the dates you want.
38. Swimming is a great end of gestation. It can help relieve a lot of aches and pains and makes you feel weightless.
39. Take a breastfeeding class to help prepare for the realities of breastfeeding.
40. Stretch before bed to help prevent leg cramps.
41. Continue the exercise, even if you have to slow down. This will help you recover faster.
42. Writing a birth plan. Something to help clarify what you want or need for your birth experience. Share with your professional and has invited his birth.
43. Has the film and cameras ready!
44. Relaxation practice them whenever you can. Try at least once a day.
45. It tilts the pelvis to relieve back pain in late pregnancy. This will help relieve the pain and even encourage the baby to take a good birth position.
46. Pack your bags if you go to a birthing center or hospital. Do not forget your insurance cards, pre-registration forms, camera, birth plan, etc.
47. Review the signs of labor signs and warnings.
48. Take a picture of yourself before the baby is born!
49. Read the birth stories.
50. Kiss the baby!