🤰Supporting Pregnancy:
During pregnancy, you need to consume the right nutrients and appropriately supplement folic acid, iron, calcium, iodine, vitamins, and dietary fiber to support fetal development. Foods should mainly be fresh and natural, while raw or cold foods, greasy foods, spicy foods, irritating foods, and alcohol should be avoided. If morning sickness affects your appetite, you may eat smaller meals more frequently. In addition, keeping your environment clean, creating a stress-relieving atmosphere, and developing regular exercise habits can all help reduce the discomforts of pregnancy, support a more安心 pregnancy, and strengthen the parent-child bond.
The American Pregnancy Association recommends that if you had an exercise routine before pregnancy, you should continue the same type of exercise after becoming pregnant, but exercise for weight loss is not appropriate. Pregnant women should avoid high-impact exercise and activities that may easily cause physical injury. In short, if any exercise leaves you drenched in sweat and gasping for breath, then it is probably a bit too much.
🙆🏻♀️Caring for Body and Mind:
During pregnancy and while preparing for pregnancy, in addition to physical care such as maintaining a regular daily routine and staying healthy, many people actually overlook women’s mental health. The long journey of trying to conceive can feel like a race against time. You need to face each stage positively and reduce, as much as possible, the factors that make you feel exhausted or lead to negative thinking. This may become a physically and emotionally draining journey, so it is recommended to cultivate an interest or hobby to help relieve the stress of trying to conceive and reduce feelings of self-doubt and disappointment. At the same time, it is also important to find a professional reproductive medicine and obstetrics team with whom you can communicate well, seek advice, and share your journey. In addition, if work is too busy or stressful, it is recommended to discuss with your partner whether some changes should be made in order to maintain a balance among work, family, and life. A partner’s empathy and support play an extremely important role here. Otherwise, whether during preconception, pregnancy, or postpartum, it can become a burden and challenge for the mother, the baby, and even the family.