Two Weeks Pregnant, 8 Dos and Don’ts for a Healthy Baby



Two Weeks Pregnant, 8 Dos and Don’ts for a Healthy Baby
Being two weeks pregnant means most of the early pregnancy symptoms are now more visible than they were in your first week. As expecting mother, it is about time you take full responsibility and think more about your unborn baby's health and you.

Since you are now aware you are two weeks pregnant, I expect you would have seen your doctor and the prenatal programme commenced. What is next is to know what to do and what not to do to keep your baby absolutely healthy as you walk through the next 38 or more weeks of the gestation period.

What to do
1.      Keep all appointments with your obstetrician
This is the time to get use to it; see your doctor regularly and follow necessary prescriptions and advice. Every pregnancy is peculiar and your doctor will follow up on your own peculiarity.

2.      It’s time to eat well
Being pregnant means you need to eat well; by this am talking about eating healthy hygienically prepared foods and balanced diet. Depending on your situation, your doctor should be able to prescribe certain foods to take and in recommended and balanced quantity.

It is important to note, that you need to get enough and quality vitamins, mineral, and all enriching nutrients from your food rather than depending on supplements. So the kind of food you eat matters at this stage of your pregnancy.

3.      Regular supplements intake
You will take pregnancy vitamin supplements as backups only to support your good food habit during pregnancy.

These supplements will help you take care of any inadequacy in your diets; especially at such times when pregnancy symptoms won't allow you eat well.

4.      Do regular non stressful exercises
Exercising keeps you in shape, gives you strength and stamina to cope with pregnancy, especially as the weeks count. Exercises also help keep your psyche up and alert so you are mentally prepared.

Meet your obstetrician for recommended exercises that are safe for you.

5.      Get lots of rest
Some of the pregnancy symptoms make you tired easily, especially when you are two weeks pregnant. This is so because of the rapid development taking place and increase in your hormones level.

What you need at this time is lots of rest. Resting helps restore and conserve your energy for your body to cope with your baby's development. Make sure you are relaxed and sleep any time it comes.

What not to do
6.      Abstain from alcohol
You are two weeks pregnant and your symptoms will increase as the pregnancy hormones increase; because alcohol intake rapidly gets to your baby via your blood stream and placenta this might make your baby unsafe and also your symptoms aggravated.

7.      Stop or reduce consumption of caffeine
For the sake of your baby, you need to follow medical advice regarding intake of any kind of stimulants - coffee, tea, cola, energy drinks etc.

Evidences have shown that too much caffeine may cause miscarriage and can cause low-birth-weight. It is good to get safe consumption advice of any stimulant during pregnancy from your doctor.

8.      Do not smoke at all
You risk miscarriage, premature birth, and low birth weight among other serious consequences of smoking. It’s better to be safe than having short social habit met and endanger your baby's life and yours.

Symptoms of your pregnancy can be more complicated with smoking, for instance your morning sickness may get worse than normal.

Following these tips for a healthy pregnancy would help you all the way to safe delivery of a healthy bouncing baby, especially now that you are two weeks pregnant.

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