After a pregnant woman becomes pregnant, her body is no longer solely hers. Pregnant women still have babies in their bodies. When pregnant women use or do something, they must pay special attention to the fetus in the lower abdomen, otherwise it may have adverse effects on the development of the fetus. Do pregnant women need to use specialized maternity care products?
1、 Do pregnant women need to use specialized maternity care products
As long as qualified cleaning and care products are available, they can be used normally without any harm. Some are specifically designed for pregnant women and have poor quality, so it's better to use ordinary ones.
2、 Pregnancy precautions
1. Don't take medication indiscriminately for a cold
Indomethacin is a contraindicated antipyretic medication for pregnant women, and aspirin should not be used after 32 weeks of pregnancy. Antibiotics are not necessary for pregnant women with colds if there is no clear evidence of bacterial infection, such as tonsillitis, high blood pressure, coughing up yellow phlegm, and runny nose. Expectorants and cough suppressants are generally safe, but cough suppressants containing iodine preparations should not be used by pregnant women.
2. Correct sleeping position during pregnancy
In the early stages of pregnancy (1-3 months), pregnant women can sleep in any position they want, mainly in comfortable positions such as supine or lateral positions. Bad sleeping postures such as sleeping on your stomach or hugging something should be changed.
During mid pregnancy (4-7 months), attention should be paid to protecting the abdomen and avoiding direct external forces. If a pregnant woman has excessive amniotic fluid or twin pregnancy, she should adopt a lateral sleeping position, which can make the pregnant woman feel more comfortable. If pregnant women feel heavy in their lower limbs, they can adopt a supine position and slightly raise their lower limbs with a soft pillow.
In the late stage of pregnancy (8-10 months), it is advisable to adopt a left lateral position. This position can correct the right-handed enlargement of the uterus, reduce the pressure of the uterus on the abdominal aorta and iliac artery, increase blood supply to the fetus, and promote fetal growth and development.
3. Pay attention when taking a shower
Bathing time should not be too long: During bathing, poor ventilation, cloudy air, and high humidity in the bathroom can reduce the oxygen content in the air. In addition, the stimulation of hot water can cause blood vessels in the body to dilate, leading to fainting during bathing. If a pregnant woman takes a bath for too long, in addition to the above situations, it can also cause fetal hypoxia. Therefore, it is generally not advisable for pregnant women to take a shower for more than 15 minutes at a time, or to ensure that the pregnant woman does not experience dizziness or chest tightness.
Pregnant women should avoid sitz baths during bathing: sitz baths are not beneficial for women. The dirty water after sitz baths may enter the vagina, and the vagina's disease prevention ability may weaken, which can easily cause cervicitis, adnexitis, and even intrauterine or external genital infections, leading to premature birth. Don't even go to public baths to take a shower.
The water temperature should not be too high: According to relevant expert research, excessive water temperature during a pregnant woman's bath can affect fetal brain development. Of course, when hot water raises the body temperature of pregnant women by 1.5 degrees compared to normal, the development of fetal brain cells may stagnate. When it reaches 3 degrees, there is a risk of fetal brain cells being killed. Therefore, the water temperature for pregnant women to bathe should not be too high.
4. Pregnant women should pay attention to watching TV
Avoid watching TV up close: Pregnant mothers should be at least 2 meters away from the TV.
Avoid watching TV for extended periods of time: Pregnant women should generally not watch TV for more than 2 hours at a time to avoid excessive eye use, especially those with gestational hypertension syndrome.
Avoid watching horror, tension, and tragic programs, as these programs can make pregnant mothers emotionally tense and cause a special substance to appear in their blood, which is transmitted to the fetus through the placenta and makes the fetus uneasy.
5. Nearly 100 foods that should not be eaten during pregnancy
Eating nutritious food is very important for women from the beginning of preparing for pregnancy. Once pregnant, the pregnant woman must consume all the nutrients she and the fetus need. Pregnant women generally avoid consuming animal based high-fat foods such as fatty meat, lard, and chicken fat during pregnancy; Avoid eating spicy and stimulating foods such as chili peppers, cloves, fennel, onions, ginger, mustard, tobacco, and alcohol; Avoid eating persimmons, persimmon cakes, snails, snails, crabs, clams, clams, and various cold drinks with a strong cooling effect; Avoid salty and high salt foods such as salted fish, pickles, Pickled vegetables and bacon; Avoid eating foods that consume qi and blood, such as betel nut, kumquat cake, raw radish, okra, strong tea, cocoa, sea dragon, seahorse, etc; You should also avoid sweet foods such as candy, wine, candied fruits, maltose, white sugar, rock sugar, honey, desserts, etc; Avoid eating sticky and greasy foods such as glutinous rice, rice cake, longan meat, lychee, jujube, etc; Avoid eating difficult to digest foods such as snails, snails, and clam meat.
This article provides a detailed introduction to some issues that pregnant women need to pay attention to after pregnancy, as well as whether it is necessary to use specialized maternity care products. Actually, maternity specific care products are better, but there is no need to use them. In fact, there were no specialized maternity care products before, and pregnant women were still able to give birth to healthy babies.
