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Chaunie Brusie

Mom | Writer | Nurse

August 13, 2018 By Chaunie

Here’s Proof You Should Relax and Take Care of You, Pregnant Mamas

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I was one of those pregnant women who felt determined to prove that pregnancy wouldn’t slow me down. Take the hike? You betcha! Paint the house? I’m all over it! Keep weightlifting? Of course!

While I definitely had my moments of complete pregnancy exhaustion, for some reason, during all of my pregnancies, I was hell-bent on preventing others from accommodating me for anything. In my mind, I felt like if I was going to have kids, I had to work extra hard to make sure no one could accuse me of slowing down.

But the truth is, science has an important lesson for those of us who have a hard time taking a break during pregnancy. While we may think that we need to maintain our normal workloads, keep our normal exercise schedules, juggle our other kids’ schedules and basically not change a darn thing while we add in the superhuman task of growing another human, science essentially begs us to do the opposite and put our freaking feet up once in a while.

“We are operating on a lot of outdated theories that to be a ‘good’ mom, we should sacrifice everything for our kids.”

Many studies done during pregnancy seem focused on what women are doing wrong while simultaneously telling them to relax (“Just relax, but here’s 18 million studies about everything you’re doing wrong!”). However, new research out of Sweden took a different approach. Instead of looking at a mom’s diet, how much exercise she got or if she took the wrong medication, it looked at her day-to-day stress levels. And the conclusion?

When pregnant women are able to relax more and stress less, the literal health of her entire family improves.

Read the rest at mom.me

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Hi, I'm Chaunie, a coffee mug addict, a labor and delivery nurse turned freelance writer, and a young(ish) mom of four. I'm the author of Tiny Blue Lines: Preparing For Your Baby, Moving Forward In Faith, & Reclaiming Your Life In An Unplanned Pregnancy and The Moments That Made You A Mother. Read More…

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