Pregnant Care Tips - Do's and Don'ts

Getting pregnant can be a tricky business, a bit like putting a jigsaw puzzle together in fact. Tricky that is, until you know how all the "pieces" fit together. Once you do, the "pregnancy puzzle" all becomes much easier. Like a puzzle, there are things you must do and things you must not do in order to solve it. I've put some of these "do's and don'ts" together in this article and I really hope that it will help to get pregnant.

DO... examine your lifestyle to make sure that it is a healthy one. Eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, lean meat and fish and whole grains. Drink plenty of water too.

DON'T ...eat fast foods, highly refined sugary foods, drink alcohol or smoke. Stopping all social drugs will not only help to get pregnant but will also ensure that you can carry the baby full term.

DO...take exercise. Exercise forms part of a healthy lifestyle and a healthy life-style is essential to help to get pregnant. A brisk walk or gentle swim or low impact gymn work-out will make you fell positive inside. One exercise you can do siting in a chair is the Kegal exercise. The action required to perform this exercise is the same as if you were trying to stop yourself urinating and results in the tightening of muscles around the vagina, anus and bladder. Do 20 Kegal exercies everyday, anywhere!

Peforming Kegal exercises during and after intercourse will create the same "vacuum effect "as an orgasm and will hasten the sperm towards your egg!

DON'T...overdo your exercise programme or do gruelling work-outs in the gym. Exhaustion will not help to get pregnant.

DO...know your body cycle as this will help to get pregnant. If you are on the pill, you should plan to allow three months before getting pregnant for your body to get back to "normal" If you record the length of your cycle over this period, it will begin to show what length of cycle you have. The day your period begins is day 1. Ovulation takes place two weeks ie. 14 days before the beginning of your next period. You are fertile for three days before you ovulate and three days after you ovulate. Therefore if you had a cycle of 26 days, you would ovulate on the 12th day and you would be fertile from the 9th to the 15th day.

DON'T...have sex at every possible moment! When you really want a baby, this is very tempting. Concentrate on having intercourse no more than once a day during your fertile period as this will keep your partner's sperm count high and so help to get pregnant.

DO.... take the best vitamin/mineral/nutritional supplement you can find as this will boost your hormone balance and help to get pregnant. Ask your pharmacist for advice on which ones are the best to take. Take these nutritional supplements three months or so before you want to get pregnant and include folic acid as this is essential for healthy spine formation.

DON'T...overdo the vitamin C! Although essential for the production of cervical fluid which transports the sperm o the ovum, too much vitamin C will make the cervical fluid dry up. This would certainly not help to get pregnant.

I hope that these "do's and don'ts " of getting pregnant help to ensure that your path to pregnancy is an easy and enjoyable one.