Planning a pregnancy is a serious step for spouses, so it is necessary to take all the necessary measures before conception to avoid complications during pregnancy and other unpleasant consequences.
Instructions
Step 1
It's time to start a healthy lifestyle. First of all, give up bad habits. Smoking and drinking alcohol can affect conception and pregnancy, as well as cause various pathologies in children.
Step 2
Walk in the fresh air more often, do useful gymnastics, without undue stress. Sports activities will prepare the body for pregnancy and childbirth, properly strengthened muscles of the back and abs, good stretching, open hips, will facilitate the bearing and birth of a child.
Step 3
A healthy lifestyle means a healthy diet. You should not invent complex diets; it is enough to exclude unhealthy foods and drinks containing dyes and preservatives from the diet. Minimize fatty, fried, and salty foods. Avoid drinking caffeinated drinks. Enrich your daily diet with fresh fruits and vegetables, fermented milk products, eat lean meat. Drink plenty of fresh water.
Step 4
You can choose a special complex of vitamins and minerals, and it is also recommended, three months before the planned conception, to take drugs containing folic acid.
Step 5
You must stop taking birth control pills two to three months before the planned conception. You can not use steroids, they affect the change in hormonal levels in the body. If a course of antibiotics is prescribed, conception can be planned no earlier than in two to three months.
Step 6
Already before conception, try to avoid stress, unnecessary excitement. The best option is to go on vacation with your spouse and get some rest.
Step 7
Spouses, without fail, need to be examined by a doctor. There are many diseases that do not make themselves felt for many years and they can only be detected by passing tests. Any deviations in the health of the spouses can affect the course of pregnancy and the normal development of the child.
Step 8
To increase the chances of conceiving a child, it is necessary to have sex during ovulation, which occurs 2 weeks before menstruation. You should not have sex every day, since it takes about a day to restore a sufficient number of sperm.
