Constipation During Pregnancy Video

CONSTIPATION DURING PREGNANCY:

Our discussion and topic is constipation during pregnancy. Why does constipation tend to happen in pregnancy? There are a couple of reasons. Number one is the huge surge in hormones that is required to help grow and keep your baby inside you. These muscles have a relaxation effect on many of the muscles throughout the body including the digestive system.

This is natures internal mechanism to help the food to stay in your body longer so you have a higher probability of being able to absorb much more of the nutrients from your food before you pass it out.

Another reason why you can get constipation during pregnancy is the prenatal vitamins that we give you. Because, they contain iron and normally the iron is a little bit constipating in itself.

So, what do you do to prevent constipation in the first place. Well, the hormone levels, nothing you can do about it and you suddenly cannot stop taking your prenatal vitamins. You could do other things that is going to help you not to get constipation and these things are as follows.

I would advise you to take at least 10 glasses of water everyday, that is not tea and coffee, that means water, water, water. Try and not be so stressed. Eat fruits and vegetables or whatever food would normally help you to go to the bathroom, make sure that you are doubling up on these foods.

Some women, if they have a lot of pain or the gas associated with the heartburn, peppermint drink or peppermint tea might also help or just sniff in a peppermint.

Get a little bit of exercise in to your daily routine. Now, if you are not used to working out, then I am not recommending that, but I am saying, do a little bit of walking to try to get the body movement. Because what happens is, as this baby grows and takes over your entire abdomen, your bowel becomes squashed and displaced.

So, here you have this growing baby squashes on the bowel and the bowel normally is a pumping machine and it pumps along the contents that is in it and absorb the nutrients. When you have the baby pressing next to your bowel, sometime this pumping mechanism of the bowel does not happen in a natural manner and this itself can create pain, gas, constipation. I would recommend to you that be informed about all the different symptoms in pregnancy, what to look out for, and how to prevent them in the first place.