relax and enjoy (Preparing for Pregnancy)

Member Name: barbie84

Product:	Preparing for Pregnancy
Date:	08/02/09 (31 review reads)
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Advantages: enjoy

Disadvantages: none

A lot of people dont realy get the chance to prepare for pregnancy but due to the fact that my baby is the result of artificial incermination i had a lot more opertunity to preparefor this than other mums to be.

During your pregnancy you want to be as healthy as possible to give your baby the best chance of being healthy as it can have, i began this by eating a lot more healthy foods than i normaly would have done and adding a lot of iron and folic acid rich foods to my diet aswell as taking folic acid tablets for 3 months before we began trying to concieve as this helps to prevent spina bifida and other neural tube defects, you need to continue these for the first 3 months of the pregnancy too.

Along with this i gave up drinking alcohol completely as i know that some claim it has no effect if you only drink a couple of units a week wholst pregnant but i wasnt taking any chances with this if i could avoid it althogether.

I have tryed to give up smoking with all 3 of my pregnancys without any luck and came to the conclusion that for me i would just cut it down and keep it to around 6 cigarettes a day as this surely has to be better for me and the baby than me being constantly stressed which is something you realy want to avoid wholst pregnant as you dont want your blood pressure to get too high,

I managed to escape the last two pregnancys with very few stretch marks and with significantly less than other women i know, i am hopeing to escape them again this time by doing as i did then and using a greasy moisturiser each day on my stomach, chest and hips.

Other than this my only advice would be to relax as much as possible and enjoy being pregnant as it is a wonderful experience

Summary: enjoy it