Pregnant Women on the Move
How can you ease bulging out and heartburn when you travel and you are pregnant? When you are on the road and you are pregnant, it is hard to keep a healthy diet and fixed eating habits. The chances of eating more and in a hurry are high, using fast food or food that is not familiar to you, and change of your time zone will also change your meal times.
If you are pregnant and take an airline travel to another country, you will eat for lunch, when in fact at home you used to have dinner. Thus, trips can intensify bulging out and heartburn, which are already common in the case of a pregnant woman.
If you are pregnant and you have tummy problems, they are likely to appear during the trip as well, but you can follow some tips to make sure that they are not so severe. When you are pregnant and you have to travel, pack only casual and comfortable clothes (anything that might press your waist or stomach). Instead of eating three big meals, a pregnant woman should try to have more small meals, throughout the day.
Eat slowly and chew your food well. A pregnant woman on the move should not have dinner before bedtime. Between dinner and bedtime there should be 2-3 hours when the food can be digested. Try to sleep with the body raised on several pillows, preferably special pillows for pregnant women.
Limit your amount of fluid ingested during meals and drink after them. Avoid food and drinks that can bring you gastrointestinal problems, such as carbonated drinks, alcohol (which anyway must be avoided by pregnant women), caffeine, chocolate, citrus, tomatoes, mustard, vinegar, minty and hot products, fries and foods rich in fat. Do not smoke! (Again, a pregnant woman should quit this habit).
What should I do if I have problems with constipation? If you have such problems before going on a trip, it will worsen the situation. Changing the food, the impossibility of having a toilet when you need it, the reduced the amount of fluids, all these can have a negative impact on the stomach in the case of a pregnant woman.
To avoid this problem or at least to mitigate it, your food should include cereals, fresh or dried fruit and vegetables. In addition, you should drink more fluids; at least 6-8 glasses of water a day, especially prune juice will help, and do exercises, benefiting from a fitness centre or pool once you have reached the destination.
Ask your doctor about the amount of iron you had before being pregnant. High doses (greater than 30 mg) can cause constipation or even worse. As long as you do not suffer from anaemia, ask your doctor for advice to supplement the amount of iron, if it is still low. How can pregnant women prevent fatigue?
It is normal to be tired when you are pregnant, as long as your body sustains two people. Travel will worsen the state of fatigue by changing meal times, changing the time zone, or interrupting the normal program. Although during early pregnancy you can still benefit from the trip, in time, you have to slow down, and quit the idea of seeing everything.
