Healthy Tips During Pregnancy: Dr Rama Sofat Hospital

Healthy Tips During Pregnancy: Dr Rama Sofat Hospital

1. Eat Whole Foods

Food is energy for the body. Whole foods are nourishing foods. Each and everything you eat is going to go to your baby. Think about that. What you eat truly matters during pregnancy more than at any other time because what you consume is directly affecting another human being your baby. 

Eat foods that are as close to their natural state as possible. A wide variety of fresh vegetables and fruits, whole grains, free-range, grass-fed and organic meats, eggs and dairy products, filtered water, clean fish; you get the idea.

2. Take a Prenatal Multivitamin

To make sure you are getting all the vital nutrients necessary to sustain you and your baby, a whole food prenatal multivitamin is recommended. In today’s world, foods are greatly lacking in all the vital nutrients the body needs to sustain life, let alone two lives as described by Dr Rama Sofat.

3. Move Your Body Daily

Now more than any other time in your life your body is going to be rapidly changing shape, weight and size. Daily movement and exercise is going to help you stay grounded, strong and flexible. These are important aspects needed for carrying a baby, the demands of labor, breastfeeding and motherhood. Exercise also helps keep stress at bay.

4. Transform and Resolve Stress

Stress, my oh my, in the world we live in today, it can be very challenging to keep stress at bay; that is why I urge pregnant mothers to learn to transform and resolve stress as it arises. Yes, it would be ideal to make time each day to cultivate a practice to lower stress levels, what we call stress management, but I find that during pregnancy more than at any other time in life, stress can just come on.

5. Drink a Lot of Water

Carry a water bottle with you full of filtered water every where you go. Drinking at least 10 full glasses of water daily will help to keep you hydrated, help prevent nausea, and help to keep amniotic fluid amounts at a healthy level  as described by Dr Rama Sofat.

6. Let Your Body be Your Compass

Tune in to what your body is telling you. When pregnant, this is more important than ever. There will be more strain, more hunger, more intense emotion than at other times in life. If you are feeling tired, rest. If you are hungry, eat. If you experience more braxton hicks contractions, drink more water.

7. Cultivate Deep Gratitude for Relationships

The relationships you have now may change once you become a mother. Perhaps you have children already, but this pregnancy is new to you. All those relationships you have now may change once a new baby has arrived. This is a completely normal and natural part of life. Everything changes and it is extremely helpful to go with the flow of life when you have deep gratitude, respect and honor for your current relationships