Top Tips for a Healthy & Happy Pregnancy + Giveaway
Top Tips for a Healthy & Happy Pregnancy with Sea-Band’s Pregnancy Toolkit + Giveaway
Pregnancy is a really exciting time, however it can also be one of confusion, with lots of conflicting advice! To help, Sea-Band has invited experienced practicing midwife, Gill Perks to give her top tips, to help all mothers-to-be along their pregnancy journey.
Top Tips for a Healthy & Happy Pregnancy from Gill Perks
- It is safe for women to exercise when pregnant and recommended that all try and have about 2.5 hours of moderate intensity activity spread throughout the week. Women who are used to exercise before pregnancy can maintain their level of activity in pregnancy as long as they are comfortable – however, be sure not to try anything new or more strenuous than usual.
- Some foods should be avoided in pregnancy. Always wash fruit and vegetables carefully before consumption. Guidance has recently changed and runny eggs are safe to eat if they have the Lion Mark. Avoid unpasteurised and unripe cheeses, pâté and do not eat more than two tins of tuna fish per week as well as avoiding shark, marlin and swordfish. Caffeine should only be drunk in moderation, beware of caffeine in coca cola too, and alcohol should be avoided altogether.
- Wear gloves when gardening or changing cat litter to protect your baby from toxoplasmosis. Wash your hands before you put anything in your mouth!
- It’s really important that friends and family offer lots of support in pregnancy, especially during the first 12 weeks, when expectant mothers can feel extremely tired and especially if suffer from morning sickness. If possible, having other people do the shopping and cooking can make enjoying foods easier and allows you to rest.
- Avoid tight, restrictive clothing, particularly around the waistline. Pregnancy is a time to make yourself as comfortable as possible! Varicose veins can also appear during pregnancy, so avoid standing around for long periods and consider support stockings. See your GP if the problem persists.
- Write a birth plan, even better call this ‘birth preferences’ and share with everyone who will be involved with the birth. This should ideally be ready by about 36 weeks when a pregnant woman can expect to have an opportunity to discuss her birth preferences with a midwife and perhaps visit their chosen birth setting. The birth preferences should include who you will want with you during labour and birth and the types of comfort measures you would like, for example, massage, labouring in water or gas and air. Of course, it is normal that some of these preferences may change during labour and you are free to change your mind! Some thought and consideration of preferences can be really helpful prior to the labour itself.
- When people offer you help with your new baby say: “yes please, bring me a meal!”
Find more tips from Gill, including videos, and find out your pregnancy superpower here!
About Sea-Bands
- Sea-Bands are acupressure knitted wrist bands that are clinically proven to relieve motion sickness and morning sickness in addition to helping with post-operative and chemotherapy-induced nausea
- Available from all major retailers and online: Adult Sea-Band available from Boots: £8.59 | Child Sea-Band available from Boots : £8.59
- Sea-Bands are the natural choice for drug free relief of all types of nausea. They provide natural relief without any side effects and are effective, reusable and washable.
- For more information about types of nausea and forms of prevention, visit the Sea-Band website: www.sea-band.com.
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Post in collaboration with Sea-Band.
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Both myself and my daughter suffer from travel sickness so these would be very useful
while travelling
Yes, but I found that adding a thin slice of ginger to hot water or tea, sipping on flat ginger ale, or snacking on gingersnaps or gingerbread helped.
no i dont luckily x
I suffer from travel sickness and I’m terrible with car journeys let alone boats.I also get a lot of motion sickness due to problems that I have.
Yes, I get super seasick! It’s ruined lovely romantic whale & dolphin watching trip with my husband, and mutiple ferry rides to France as a kid!
I suffer from travel sickness sometimes!
I often get travel sick
yes I did during the first few months xx
I get travel sickness.
I was horrendous with morning sickness in early pregnancy. I do occasionally get sea sickness. But would love to try these bands when I get a migraine. The nausea that goes with migraine is debilitating.
No. I’ve never suffered.
i get sea sick
I suffer from motion sickness quite a lot
Yes both , really dad on coaches in particular
Yes for 10 horrible weeks
Not me but my husband gets terrible motion sickness
I get motion sickness when travelling, either by bus, boat or train
I suffer sea sickness
I suffer from bad motion sickness
I often get travel sick
I only suffered nausea – usually at 4.00 pm. I managed to get rid of this by eating something at 3.00 pm. I always ate a snack of toast or cereal before going to bed which I think helped with the mornings. I also kept to a fairly bland diet.
I get quite a lot of nausea linked linked to my disability – when I get really exhausted. Dad suffers from nausea a lot too, so I’m interested to see if these work on either of us!
I suffered really badly from morning sickness when I was pregnant.
Yes , in first trimester I had not so much morning sickness as the afternoon sickness
I suffered morning sickness from 11 weeks pregnant until my son was born and i have to be the driver on every trip as suffer terrible car sickness
I get travel sick if I try to read in a car or bus
I am defo looking into this more, I suffer from Emetophobia which is the fear of sick, and one of the side affects of the phobia is your body making you feel sick :( This would change my life if its proven to work
I did for the first few months, it’s horrible . Not much helped really , luckily didn’t last too long.
Car and sea motion always makes me suffer
I had really bad morning sickness for most of my pregnancy and I also suffer with car sickness.
I often get travel sick, especially in the back seat of a car.
I suffer travel sickness
Always suffered from motion sickness of any kind.
I suffered with both of my daughters.
I have had 5 kids it changed so much with each one, but did suffer a lot with morning sickness
No luckily i didn’t but I would give these to my sister who suffered terribly on her first pregnancy, in preparation for the second :)
I get motion sickness on coaches and buses
I am nauseous morning noon and night and no I’m not preggers :P
I suffer from sea sickness and car sickness.