Preparing for Pregnancy

Are you preparing for pregnancy? If you are planning to start a family in the near future, it’s a good idea to prepare yourself, mentally and physically, in order to give yourself the best start towards a healthy pregnancy, birth and baby! Below are a few tips and ideas on what you can do before starting to try to conceive.

Diet

Now is a good time to assess your diet. Stock your body up with all the nutrients it needs for a healthy pregnancy. A good rule of thumb to follow is two serves of fruit and five serves of vegetables every day, including green, leafy vegetables. Foods rich in calcium, iron and protein are essential. Protein-rich foods include beans, meat, poultry, seeds and nuts. Iron-rich foods include lean red meat, fish, whole meal breads, cereals, poultry, legumes and green, leafy vegetables. Limit your fish intake to no more than two servings a week. Stick to varieties low in mercury such as sardines, salmon, farm-raised rainbow trout and herring. Avoid large amounts of caffeine, as there has been some links to miscarriage. Replace coffees and sodas with water. It is recommended that folic acid intake should be increased in the three months leading up to conception. And also throughout the pregnancy. This lowers the chances of the baby developing neural tube defects, such as spina bifida by up to 50–70%. It can be found in green, leafy vegetables and whole grains, but prenatal supplements are also available to ensure daily requirements are met.

Exercise

For some women, it can prove difficult to fall pregnant if their weight or BMI (body mass index) is either too high or too low. If you are able to reach a healthy weight prior to conception, there is likely to be fewer complications down the track. It is not advised to start new rigorous exercise regimes once you are pregnant, but keeping active is important. By following a healthy exercise program before conceiving, it will be easier to continue it into the pregnancy. This involves at least thirty minutes of moderate exercise (i.e. increasing your heart rate), such as walking, running, swimming, cycling or weight training. Speak to your healthcare provider first about the best way to reach your healthy weight.

Lifestyle

If you smoke, now is the time to stop. It has severe impacts on your own health, and it can affect your fertility, and if you do fall pregnant it is likely to create health implications on your baby. If your partner smokes, his semen volume could be decreased and the number of healthy sperm produced is lowered, so it is also an ideal time for him to quit too. Recreational drugs can also lead to fertility issues and birth defects, and it can take a while for them to leave your system. Now is also an ideal time to look at your financial situation. Raising a child is expensive, and if you plan to leave work, short-term or long-term, start planning and saving now. Research the costs involved in pregnancy and delivery, and consider taking out health insurance if you don’t already have it. It may not happen as soon as you would like, the time it takes to fall pregnant in recent years has increased so you want to do everything you can to ensure you are on the right path. Conceive Plus fertility lubricant is FDA cleared and developed by Doctors to help the conception process. It contains calcium and magnesium ions, essential for the fertilization process. Find out how Conceive Plus can assist you when TTC trying to conceive.

Pregnancy tips to help you conceive

The time to start working toward a healthy pregnancy is before you conceive. If you are trying to get pregnant quick, our pregnancy tips are good start to get your body ready for conception process.

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