The following prompts in daily
activities will help you have healthy and safe pregnancy.
1. Brush teeth
Pregnancy will lead to some changes to
mouth and teeth. It can easily make you inflamed, bleed and contaminate bacteria.
You should ensure to brush your teeth twice a day. You gargle with salt water
that is diluted after each time of brushing teeth.
Pregnant
women should ensure to brush their teeth twice a day.
2. Try to be comfortable in office
Check chair and choose posture that you can
sit comfortably with computer. If you want to reduce work or avoid hard and
harmful work, you can talk to your boss.
3. Say “no” with wine absolutely
A little can also be harmful to fetus.
Therefore, pregnant women should avoid wine and drinks containing alcohol like
beer…
4. Go to bed early
You shouldn’t stay up late because
pregnancy will make you not get enough sleep, fatigue, and stress that are
harmful to fetus.
Pregnant
women should go to bed early.
5. Practice for legs
Turn toes clockwise – anticlockwise,
message ankle many times in a day, especially when you have to stand for cramp.
You can message your legs when you are sitting on your desk or watching TV. In
addition, you can put your legs on pile of newspaper when you are sitting to
work.
6. Keep body not lose water
The principle is that you should drink at
least 8 cups of water a day (about 200ml/cup) every day. It will help your skin
elastic and isn’t lost water.
7. Provide pregnant drug that is correct with direction
You need about 400mcg folic acids/ day
during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Besides, kinds of vitamin, other
additional medicines that are appointed by doctors also require pregnant women to
obey very strictly. I don’t willingly provide or not provide medicine when you
have doctor’s instruction.
8. Avoid wearing clothes close in waist
When womb becomes big, you should choose
dresses that are comfortable and have good elasticity, especially dresses that
aren’t close in waist.
9. Eat cranberry fruit
Urinary infection is very popular to
pregnant women. Cranberry fruits help reduce bacteria that cause urinary
infection at maximum rate.
10. Nutritious
vitamins
Vitamins that are made from fresh fruits
can both provide many nutrients and satisfy feeling of craving sweet to
pregnant women. You yourself can process grape, orange, peach, pear and apple
juices…
11. Do not
skip breakfast
Breakfast that is rich in protein and
starch such as meat soup, bread, boiled egg… will help maintain energy in a
long day.
12. Avoid
backache
You should put a pillow behind back if you
work in your office all day. If you have to lift furniture, you should fold
your knees (not bend). You should ask your husband to message back, shoulder,
nape… after a working day.
Putting
a pillow behind back will help pregnant women reduce backache.
13. Don’t
wear high- heels
In pregnancy, hormones make legs’ ligaments
be loose. Hence, legs and ankles are easily swelled and painful. So, you
shouldn’t wear high-heels as well as sandal with many strings that tie closely.
14. Choose
cool costumes
In pregnancy, gaining weight will make
blood circulation increase and you will have hot feeling. In pregnancy,
especially in summer, you should choose costumes whose cloth is cool, light and
easy to absorb sweat like some natural materials: cotton that can help skin
breath easily.
In
summer, you should choose costumes whose cloth is cool, light and easy to
absorb sweat
15. Provide
fiber
Pregnant women tend to have constipation
because digestive system is made slow. Therefore, pregnant women should eat a
lot of vegetables and fruits as well as kinds of cake and grain that are
provided with fiber.
16. Say
no with spices
In the third quarter, when valve in the
beginning of stomach easily opens and causes reflux, you should avoid fried
foods with a lot of oil, foods with a lot of fat and spices.
17. Reinforce
vitamin D and calcium
Vitamin D and calcium are 2 important
substances for fetus’s teeth and bones. So, you should add fish containing oil,
milk and yoghurt in nutritious diet every day. In addition, you shouldn’t
forget to go out because sunlight is the best source that sums up vitamin D for
body.
18. Give
up carbonated beverages
You should avoid carbonated beverages
because they contain a lot of sugar and caffeine.
You
should avoid carbonated beverages
19. Be
active
Practicing will help maintain figure for
not only pregnancy but also after giving birth. However, pregnancy isn’t ideal
time for you to begin a new sport. You should keep on walking, practicing yoga
and movements that are advised to be safe to pregnant women.
20. Take
care of skin
Changes of hormones in pregnancy make
quantity of oil in skin lose balance. Hence, you should spend time taking care
of your skin. But, you should pay attention to choose cosmetics that are safe for
pregnant women.
21. Choose
undershirt
In pregnancy, your breast will become
bigger and uncomfortable. Consequently, you should choose undershirt that is
elastic and suitable. Normally, in the second quarter normal bras will not
suitable to change of breast any more.
22. Prevent
hemorrhoids
Constipation can lead to hemorrhoids. You
should drink enough water and eat enough fiber to prevent constipation every
day. If constipation lasts, you should go to see doctor.
23. Nosh
in pregnancy
To overcome attack of pregnancy, pregnant
women should eat less but regularly. You should avoid the case that you are too
full or too hungry.
24. Kegel
exercise
Practicing Kegel will help muscles in
bottom of hipbones become strong and healthful and urinating trouble after
giving birth. You are hollow as if you are enduring urination, count to 10 and
then let your body loose.
25. Meet
your friends
Experts advise you to often share with
friends, colleagues, group of pregnant women in forum to get experience as well
as reduce stress.
