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Page 1: Great Tips For A Happy, Healthy Baby!

Great Tips For A Happy, Healthy Baby!

Being pregnant or in the process of trying to conceive, means you have a million and one things tolearn and take care of. Pregnancy will involve almost every part of your life. It can begin to feel veryoverwhelming when you consider how much there is to understand. Here are some tips that canensure you have a happier and healthier pregnancy.

Relax before bedtime and use pillows to make your pregnant body more comfortable while sleeping.It will be easier for you to drift off to sleep, if you instill some bedtime rituals such as reading a fewpages of a book and/or having a cup of warm milk or chamomile tea. Soothing pre-bedtime ritualsmay include taking warm showers, reading in bed, or having your shoulders massaged.

Eat a healthy diet. When you were eating lots of junk food, that habit has to stop. Eat produce, leanprotein and high-fiber carbohydrates instead.

Try to avoid vitamin A as much as you can when pregnant. Vitamin A can harm an embryo. Be awareof foods containing high amount of vitamin A, such as mangos, egg yolks, and mozzarella. Thesefoods in moderation are okay, just don't eat them on a daily basis.

Caffeinated drinks are not advisable during the important stages of pregnancy and should beavoided as much as possible. You can interrupt and prevent the necessary sleep you and your babyneed if you consume caffeine. A great food choice for curbing nausea is crackers. Your sleeppatterns will improve if you eat a better diet.

It's okay if you learn things piece by piece. Pregnancy is a process that is going to span severalmonths. Take time to do adequate research, and gather information a little at a time. Use the adviceof this article as a general base of knowledge, and build on it from there. Most importantly, makethis a relaxed and enjoyable time of anticipation.