6 ways to feel your best during pregnancy.

6 Ways To Feel Your Best During Pregnancy!!

1. Drink lots of water - Your body needs a lot more water to stay hydrated during pregnancy and to avoid feeling sluggish and getting headaches.
2. Exercise - You must try to get some form of exercise a day and the easiest thing to do is go for a short walk every day, keeping the pelvis loose and keep rich healthy blood going to your baby.
3. Deep Breathing - This will help keep you calm and stop you passing on your stresses to the baby and is good practice for the labour!
4. Eat a balanced diet - The diet should include lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, carbohydrates and good quality protein.
5. Stretch and lengthen your muscles - This will alleviate a lot of aches and pains associated withv pregnancy, so when your doctor tells you that "this is a normal part of pregnancy" you can stretch and release the pain!
6. Treat yourself! - Take time out to have a massage, reflexology or any holistic treatment that is safe during pregnacy, your baby and body will thank you for it.

For more information please check out my website http://www.lodgeroadtherapy.ie/Antenatal%20Care.htm 

Exercise/Birthing Ball

I was talking to a new mom one day a couple of years ago and our conversation went like this;

Expectant Mom: "I was in labour and the midwife came into me with a big ball and do you know where I told her to go with her bloody ball!!!"

Me: "Really"

And we both had a good laugh!

This always stayed with me and I go to great lengths to tell expectant mothers the benefits of the birthing ball and how you can get the most  from it.

The birthing ball is beneficial in the later stages of pregnancy as something else to sit on instead of the sofa which can be difficult to get out of  and quite uncomfortable after a while and (we've all been there!)

In labour it is good for a resting position, you can rotate your hips and eases the pain of contraction, moving gently from side to side.

In labour you can stay on the birthing ball until you are ready to give birth and it really can be a saving grace before your new bundle of joy arrives :0))

So with a little guidance that lady might have had a different opinion of the "bloody"  ball!!

Pregancy Yoga - Breathing

Breathing
When you are expecting one of the first things you should focus on is breathing, in through the nose and right into the belly opening up the diaphragm and then out through the mouth in a long exhalation.

I the labour this will take the focus away from the pain with out trying to escape the labour! Being in control

Closing eyes and shutting off the rest of the world each time you have a contraction.

This can be achieved through practice and practising pregnancy yoga where you will learn how to relax from head to toe and use visialization techniques

Breathing techniques like exhaling "aahh" can make you aware of your body relaxing and letting go!

the beauty of Lodge Road Therapy Room

I own and run Lodge Road Therapy Room situated in Co. Wexford in the most idyllic of settings not a house can be seen yet just 2 miles from the main N25 New Ross to Wexford road, there a range of treatments available here as well as pregnancy yoga, ante natal classes and baby massage classes. The treatments are suited to both young and old, male or female and a competitively priced. The list of treatments include, Reflexlogy, Therapeutic Massage, Hot Stone Massage, Indian Head Massage, Facials, Hand and Foot Treatment.