5 Things You Can Do to Maintain a Healthy Pregnancy

Whatever might be the lifestyle you have maintained before, you quickly need to change it accordingly once you conceive. A healthy mother always carries a healthy child. So as a pregnant woman, it’s very important you take good care about your health. Right from the diet factor, there are many parallel factors like exercise, medication and rest which play the key role in maintaining a healthy pregnancy.

Apart from the basic doctor advices, you can still follow some useful tips for a healthy pregnancy which help would-be mothers a lot. Especially if you are a first time pregnant, the following simple things can help you to give birth to a healthy baby.

Diet: Diet is the major issue to think and adjust accordingly for pregnant women. A good diet contributes most to the health of a baby. A well organized and scheduled nutritious diet helps your baby not just to grow physically healthy but also mentally. General questions arise in mind about pregnancy diet is how much food to eat and what type of food to take. No more than 300 excess calories in addition to your daily diet would do well for the baby inside. The diet should be balanced with all essential vitamins, proteins and carbohydrates.

Milk, cereals, pulses, meat and seasonal fruits should top the diet chart. Vegetarian women should make sure that they take adequate protein content through pulses and whole grains. Most pregnant ladies tend to develop aversion towards some good food items. Though it is difficult to overcome it, you still need to avoid it at least for the sake of your baby. It is always safe to avoid canned food, sea food and high calorie confectionery and foods with very high fat content during pregnancy.

Lifestyle: You have to completely alter your lifestyle and habits especially if you posses a carefree attitude towards health. Giving up alcohol consumption is the most important of all. It’s really difficult to conclude to which extent alcohol consumption can help the growth of baby, so it’s strongly advised by many experts not to consume alcohol during pregnancy. Same way, smoking, drugs and other toxic addictions should be avoided strictly. These toxic substances lead to improper growth of fetus and often results a baby with mental weakness.  

Exercise: As long as you don’t overdo, exercise is the best way to keep yourself and your baby healthy. An early morning walk, swimming and indoor cycling are simple exercises to workout during pregnancy. Some yoga and less impact aerobics too are good, but they should be done under supervision of well trained coaches.

Medication: Visiting doctor at regular intervals is very important during pregnancy. So following doctor’s advice, prescribed medication and suggested diet plan will always helps. You should avoid taking pain killers or other medicines without the advice of doctor.

Personal care: In addition to all above, you need to take care about your body and stomach to avoid unwanted injuries and impacts.  Being stress free and living in hygienic conditions is also an important issue to keep in mind during pregnancy.