Pregnancy is a time where you have to be careful with yourself.
Many factors affect the development of a fetus into a healthy
child. Whether you like it or not there some activities you
should avoid for the sake of your healthy baby. There are
pregnancy risks that you have to aware of.
To help you knowing what they are, here is some checklist you
might want to consider:
• Don’t drink alcohol! You going to jeopardise your baby’s
development. If you don’t want to have low birth weight baby,
and having medical problems, better stop drinking once you know
that you are pregnant.
• Don’t smoke! Chemical inhaled while smoking may cause
premature birth, miscarriage, bleeding, etc. Also it reduced the
amount of oxygen that baby receives. What ever you are, don’t
smoke and avoid second hand smoke.
• Don’t drink coffee. Caffeine in the coffee has been shown to
affect fetal heart rates. Caffeine can also increase risk of
stretch marks. If you can’t stop immediately, try to stop
gradually.
• Don’t do too much exercise! No doubt if moderate exercise is
helpful for mother’s mental state and can increase oxygen flow
to the fetus. However, too much exercise can be dangerous.
Better you do activities like walking, swimming, and yoga.
• Don’t get near to chemicals substance! Be careful with
unnatural chemicals, such as pesticides. If you consume
vegetables or fruits, don’t forget to wash them. Or remove the
outer surface of vegetables or fruit so pesticides which rest on
the outside of the vegetable or fruit will be thrown away.
• Don’t consume drugs or herbal remedies that are not prescribed
by doctors. What you consume might affect your unborn baby.
• Don’t forget to eat nutritious foods. Good nutrition is
crucial to a developing child. At least you consume 400-1000
micrograms of B vitamin (folic acid) which can be taken from
leafy vegetables, orange juice, and beans.
• Don’t have multiple sex partners which may lead to birth and
pregnancy complications cause by STD’s risk. Once you infected
by STD, you may have premature baby or low birth baby.
Preventing is better than curing. If you can prevent yourself by
not doing those kinds of activities, hopefully you going to have
a healthy and normal baby. Try to acknowledge this on your first
month of pregnant.