Tips And Tricks To Make Your Pregnancy Great
You are having a baby and you are starting to panic. Don’t fret! Pregnancy is not an easy experience, but rest assured that many generations of mothers made it through unscathed with the help of good advice. This article will outline some tips you can use on your journey through pregnancy.
To prepare yourself for the challenges of caring for a baby, try babysitting for a friend’s baby. You can learn some valuable tips, gain first hand experience with caring for a newborn and be better prepared to face the challenges of your own baby. It will also give you confidence in your ability to cope.
Brush and floss your teeth daily while pregnant. This is, of course, an important tip to follow even when not pregnant. It becomes even more important during pregnancy. Pregnancy can make a woman prone to greater problems related to gingivitis and gum disease. Not taking proper care of your teeth can escalate these problems. Brushing and flossing twice a day will help to alleviate them.
If you are past your due date and you want your baby to be born, try walking. Walking is a healthy technique that can help lower the baby to the position they need to be in to be born. Ask a partner to come along with you. Avoid dangerous techniques, such as contact exercising.
Grab some rubber bands if you want to keep wearing your favorite jeans through your pregnancy. A neat trick is to take a heavy rubber band and put it through the buttonhole in your jeans. Attach both ends of the rubber band to the button and voila, extra space. Wear longer shirts over the jeans to hide the rubber band.
To extend the life of your non-maternity pants, use a simple elastic hair tie looped through the button hole and over the button, zipping the pants only as far as you can. With a long shirt or an elastic maternity band to cover the top of your pants, no one can tell that they are technically unbuttoned. This trick can help you buy some time and avoid buying too many maternity clothes.
Do not worry too much about not gaining too much weight during the first trimester. With a lot of women going through morning sickness or having food aversions, it is usually hard to gain weight during this first phase. You will more then make up for it later on in your pregnancy.
If you already have children, try to include them in your pregnancy as much as possible. Roll playing with dolls about what will happen when the new baby comes home will help them to understand when it actually happens. You can also let them feel the unborn baby move and encourage them to talk to their new sibling.
As you can see, pregnancy is nothing to be terrified of. It is a sometimes uncomfortable experience, but with careful observation and lots of healthy encouragement, your baby should make it through just fine. These tips should help ease your mind a little. Remember, take it easy — your baby depends on it!