5 Top Tips For Making Your Pregnancy An Anxiety-Free Zone
No two women have identical preganacies. Some people sail through the nine months without even the smallest worry or discomfort. Others are not so lucky – but this article has some useful tips to make this experience go as smoothly as possible.
The first piece of advice is to go easy on yourself. You might well find yourself wandering round in a catatonic shock, seeing babies everywhere. All of a sudden you wonder how on earth you are going to cope – for the rest of your life. What can you do? Get a large piece of paper and write ‘It’s normal’ all over it. Now repeat 10 times a day!
Secondly, if you are suffering from morning sickness, keep telling yourself that it will pass. Unfortunately there are limits to how much you can reduce the symptoms of this less pleasant side of pregnancy.
Most women who suffer in this way find that it eases off at the end of the first trimester. Many expectant mothers find that as the pregnancy progresses, time seems to speed up. In addition to this, you will have got more used to the idea of a baby by your second and third trimesters.
Next, ration the labor stories that you expose yourself to. Every woman can recall in vivid detail her birthing experience, and most love talking at length about it. Some want you to share in their memories of how X did not go to plan, Y just wasn’t available and Z was just much longer than they’d imagined. The fact is that your labor may be much easier than you think – many women report how powerful gas and air (entonox) is and how it made all the difference for them.
Another culprit of the labor horror story is the pregnancy magazine. Nobody can deny that they have their uses, but recreating someone’s labor war story is not one of them. If they affect you, keep a wide berth.
The last easy pregnancy tip is to make the nursery a reason to get creative, not anxious. Your second trimester is the time to have fun planning the decoration scheme and choose a cot or cot bed. Creativity is in itself a powerful cure for stress, so use this to your advantage.
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