Part 1. Leisure during pregnancy: what can and can not be?

In the life of the future mother changes a lot. These changes also affect leisure. If before long walks around the city, visiting restaurants, discos and nightclubs were an integral part of your daily schedule, now you will have to slow down the pace of life. But this does not mean that during pregnancy you will have to become a hermit - you just need to know the measure ...
Dance before I fall?
Dances at a disco, at a party - an affordable and very useful entertainment for pregnant women. Physical exercise during dancing helps the body to prepare for the birth in addition by strengthening the main muscles of the body (legs, legs, thighs, press, lumbar and intimate muscles). In addition, dancing improves mood, contributes to the development of hormones of pleasure - endorphins, thanks to which the physical discomfort is slightly drowned and the emotional background of a woman rises. To ensure that during exercises, loads do not have a negative impact on your health and your baby, you should pay attention to your state of health, avoid overloading, do nothing through strength. You should not experience discomfort and unpleasant sensations. Welcome slow pair dances, smooth movements. Sharp, bouncing, traumatic movements in dances should be avoided. Shoes should be on a low stable heel to avoid loss of balance, joint injuries, falls. When you feel tired (noise, crowded company can quickly tire) sit down to rest. In the third trimester of pregnancy, it is necessary to use an antenatal bandage, a brassiere for pregnant women, with varicose veins - a special compression knitwear (tights, stockings). With increasing pregnancy, the load, including in dances, should be at least 2 times less intense than the usual load before pregnancy.

The main landmark in setting dance loads is your well-being. Tell your husband that you may have to leave early, especially if you feel fatigue and malaise. The main motto of a loving married couple waiting for a child is: "The health of the future baby is above all."

Avoid tobacco smoke!
Do not forget that during pregnancy, not only smoking is dangerous for you, but also when people around you smoke. Components of cigarette smoke lead to deterioration of utero-placental blood circulation, the fact that a child can be born before the term or with insufficient body weight, inhaling the smoke can even provoke an abortion. To preserve the health of the future baby, a pregnant woman should refuse not only from smoking, but also from staying in smoky rooms. Therefore, during pregnancy it is safer to refrain from visiting smoking companies, clubs and restaurants, where there are no special rooms for non-smokers.

Turn down the volume
It was found that loud music is unfavorable for health, especially when it is undesirable during pregnancy, scientists in animal experiments have proved that at a loudness of 96 decibels (a level characteristic of night clubs), the activity of brain cells is disrupted. These disorders persist for 5 days, and with chronic exposure, loud music causes irreversible damage to neurons (cells) of the brain. The child begins to hear at the 15-20th week of intrauterine development. Sound has a powerful effect on the nervous, endocrine and vascular systems of the unborn baby. However, quiet classical music or melodies for relaxation have a beneficial effect on the pregnant and the fetus.

Under cover of night
Sleepless nights in nightclubs and at parties with friends - not the most useful pastime for a pregnant woman. Of course, exceptions are occasionally permissible, but they should not be included in the system.

During the gestation of a child, the body of a woman undergoes significant changes, both hormonal and physiological, which do not bypass and such a state as a dream. In the first months of pregnancy, during which hormone progesterone is actively produced, a woman needs a full and healthy sleep, which ideally should be at least 10 hours a day. If you can not simultaneously spend the night rest on such a quantity of time, you should cut out at least 1-2 hours in the afternoon in order to give the body the necessary respite. A sleepless night in a noisy club or at a party can cause symptoms of severe fatigue: weakness, lethargy, nausea, headache. In addition, violations of the regime of the day can provoke sleep disturbances, which are not uncommon during pregnancy.