The lively Spring Festival has passed. After a hard few days during the Spring Festival, expectant mothers can finally rest, but the problem arises again. After the Spring Festival, many expectant mothers will feel dizzy, absent-minded, and restless. How to deal with the long vacation syndrome that expectant mothers also suffer from?
Solution 1: Get more sleep
After the Spring Festival, expectant mothers are physically exhausted and prone to fatigue; overwork puts expectant mothers at risk of fetal movement, miscarriage, and premature delivery. Adequate sleep can not only give the body adequate rest, enhance physical strength, and eliminate fatigue, but more importantly, it can restore nerve function as soon as possible and avoid the occurrence of bad emotions.
Here are some tips for expectant mothers to improve their sleep quality:
1. Choose a quiet, clean sleeping environment for pregnant women, and the room should be ventilated. When sleeping, fans and air conditioners should avoid blowing directly on the expectant mother. When using air conditioning, the room temperature should be controlled at around 26-28 degrees Celsius, and the air should be changed every 8 hours.
2. Exercise properly before going to bed, take a warm bath to keep your skin clean and fresh, or drink a glass of warm milk and listen to relaxing music, which are all beneficial to sleep. As for sleep time, it is best for expectant mothers to sleep 7-8 hours a day. People who have the conditions should sleep for about an hour every day to fully rest their mind and body.
3. Expectant mothers should keep their sleeping position lying flat. Within 12 weeks of pregnancy, since the uterus has not grown significantly, the position has little impact on the fetus, so there are no special requirements for sleeping positions. After 5 months of pregnancy, the uterus is getting bigger and bigger. When lying supine, the uterus compresses blood vessels anterior to the spine, thereby reducing cardiac output and uteroplacental perfusion. If the abdominal aorta is compressed, blood flow to the uteroplacenta is directly reduced. Long-term placental hypoperfusion and fetal hypoxia and nutrition can lead to intrauterine growth retardation. Acute and severe placental hypoperfusion can cause fetal intrauterine distress and even endanger fetal life.
Method 2: Clean the intestines and stomach in time
During the Spring Festival, diet is often difficult to control. After a long vacation, you should pay attention to adjusting your diet structure and avoid eating too greasy to avoid causing greater burden on the gastrointestinal tract. Especially expectant mothers may eat and drink more than usual during the Spring Festival, so they should clean their stomachs in time.
First of all, expectant mothers can eat more fruits and vegetables to help clean up their stomach. There are many kinds of fruits on the market, especially in winter, there are also sugar cane, kiwi, grapes, etc. Expectant mothers can choose two or three kinds of fruits every day according to their own taste. There are many ways to eat it. Generally, wash the fruit with boiling water. Don’t take too much at a time, just once, twice, three or four times a day. In short, there are advantages and disadvantages for expectant mothers to eat more fruits.
In addition, the post-holiday diet should keep the food diverse and balanced. Generally speaking, a healthy daily diet should have six \”ones\”, that is, a certain amount of staple food, a bag of milk (250 ml), an egg, and a pound of milk. Vegetables (mainly green leafy vegetables), one to two soy products, one fruit (between meals)edible). In terms of dietary arrangements, we should also pay attention to eating at regular times, at fixed points, and in quantitative amounts, and return to the pre-holiday eating pattern as soon as possible. In addition, try to match two or three portions of lean meat and three tablespoons of fat in your daily diet, but avoid fried foods, fatty meats and animal offal.
Finally, exercise is also a great way to cleanse your bowels. After the holidays, many people focus on diet rather than exercise, which causes intestinal peristalsis to slow down and toxins in the body and pores cannot be discharged in time. Therefore, expectant mothers should insist on doing some pregnancy exercises every day after the festival to help intestinal peristalsis and clean the stomach.
Method 3: Soak your feet before going to bed
Soaking your feet in hot water appropriately in winter can promote blood circulation and warm the whole body. It is also good for eliminating fatigue and helping you fall asleep. Especially after the Spring Festival, overexertion may prevent some expectant mothers from sleeping well, so you can treat insomnia and headaches by soaking your feet. But the principle is that the water temperature should not be too high, 35-39 is appropriate, and should not exceed 40. Each soaking time should be controlled within 20 minutes.
If the foot temperature is too high for too long, the expectant mother\’s blood circulation will be too fast, the heart and brain will be overloaded, symptoms such as sweating, palpitation, and even dizziness may occur, and collapse may occur, which is detrimental to the health of the expectant mother.
Expectant mothers should not press the soles of their feet casually when soaking their feet, especially do not go to the foot bath room for massage. Stimulating certain acupuncture points on the feet may cause miscarriage. Do not add Chinese medicine that promotes blood circulation and removes blood stasis in the foot bath water, otherwise it may easily cause accidents. In addition, when expectant mothers suffer from severe athlete\’s foot (tinea pedis), it is best not to soak their feet in hot water to prevent the blisters from bursting and infecting the wound, which is not good for both the mother and the mother. child.
Soaking your feet in hot water is good for your health, especially in winter. There is a saying in Chinese medicine that \”wind-cold arises from the feet.\” When the weather is cold in winter, the human body is more likely to suffer from various discomforts such as muscle soreness, cold hands and feet, and stomach pain. Insisting on soaking your feet in hot water can promote blood circulation, dredge meridians, relieve coldness in your hands and feet, expand capillaries, and promote blood supply to the brain. Experts suggest that adding ginger slices, pepper and other accessories to hot water will have a better effect in dispelling wind and cold.
Method 4: Moderately low fire
Dry mouth, bitter tongue, loss of appetite, red eyes, toothache, oral ulcers, and herpes at the corners of the mouth are the most common symptoms of many families returning from travel. You can prepare tea and fruits. Adjusting your emotions, keeping you comfortable and calm, can also slowly reduce the \”internal fire\”.
And expectant mothers should not blindly use drugs to \”remove the heat\” when they get angry. Fire is often divided into two types: virtual fire and actual heat. Women generally have deficient fire, but when women are pregnant, due to the qi and blood of the expectant mother, the fire in the expectant mother is usually caused by excess heat. And because of the pregnancy, it is best for expectant mothers to eat warm foods to reduce internal heat and perform dietary therapy.
As far as food is concerned, \”bitter\” food is the natural enemy of \”fire\”. Bitter foods are bitter because theyContains alkaloids, urea and other bitter substances. Traditional Chinese medicine research has found that these bitter substances can clear away heat and relieve fatigue. The best bitter food is bitter melon. Whether it is cold salad, stir-fried or soup, as long as the bitter melon can be cooked without losing its \”green\” color, the purpose of \”removing heat\” can be achieved. In addition to bitter melon, there are other bitter foods that also have a good \”removing fire\” effect, such as almonds, bitter herbs, Kudingcha, celery, kale, etc., which can also clear away heat and reduce fire.
In addition, it is recommended that expectant mothers drink more boiled water every day and put thirty or forty honeysuckle tea flowers in the water, which will not affect the baby and can reduce internal heat. Pay attention to your usual diet, do not eat spicy food, do not eat oranges, eat less or no spicy condiments, these things can easily make you get angry. Eat 1 to 2 a day
A root of cucumber can also help reduce internal heat, and making tea from green olives is also helpful for reducing internal heat.