The moment you see those two stripes confirming your pregnancy, you feel excited. It is a blessing indeed, but it does come with a lot of changes in life – emotional, physical, mental. You must be thinking that the first trimester will pass with morning sickness, the second trimester with baby kicks, and the third trimester with the anxiety to meet the little one. However, the ride is not always so smooth. However, there are many ways to enjoy your pregnancy.
Add to that unsolicited advice from people you know and people who are complete strangers. Pangs of discomfort with food cravings and unprecedented weight gain could leave you aghast and appalled at the same time. While you undergo these changes, it is important to be happy and enjoy life during this phase particularly. Below are a few tips that can help you with the “fun” part of pregnancy.
23 Tips To Make Your Pregnancy Fun And Enjoyable
Following are 23 wonderful ways to make your pregnancy fun and enjoyable:
1. Choose Your Favorite Mozart
There are beautiful Mozart collections exclusively available for pregnant women, these also enrich and encourage your growing baby inside your womb. Right from ‘bhajans’ to peppy music, you have all varieties of music for this category. Choose the favorite Mozart of yours and stick to it throughout.
Your baby also gets used to listening to the music inside the womb and many times, the babies react to the music once born. This so happens that when babies listen to the same music that they heard in the womb, they connect with it and feel calm and relaxed.
2. Enjoy a Car Ride
Bumpy roads are always troublesome, but choose the right roads, and have lovely songs in your pen drive or CD. Pack up some healthy and nutritious snacks and enjoy a long drive on a great day. Do this as often as you get bored or wish to get some quality time with your spouse.
3. Solace in The Parlor
Who does not like to indulge in the variety of services that parlors offer? Take a spa, get a massage, and above all, get a pedicure done, While your belly is growing, you lose the luck to see your own feet. Enjoy this stage with a refreshing pedicure every few weeks.
4. Try Out Different Outfits That Will Highlight Your Belly
The actual “you” are losing your shape and figure. The big belly and those chubby cheeks give you a different look. Trust me, enjoy this as you would surely revert to your pre-pregnancy body within a few years. So, have your “fatso fashion” mode ON. Try different costumes as per your mood for the day.
5. Enjoy a Maternity Photo Shoot
Photos are memories. The best part of womanhood is having your baby. So, this phase of pregnancy has to be captured and framed! Hire a professional photographer and get these memories as keepsakes. You can even plan to take pictures of how your pregnancy is progressing every month or every trimester.
6. Enjoy Making Craft Items For Your Baby
Have you heard of grandmas making sweaters for their little ones during pregnancy? There are so many DIY things that can be made from the comfort of your home. Right from sweaters, frocks, mittens, caps, to ponchos and blankets. Grab those needles and get some wool and thread and start now!
7. Write a Diary Note For the Little One
Write down your emotions in a note or in your laptop. How do you feel once you heard the news? What was the first emotional time during pregnancy? When was the first kick? How did the father talk to the baby inside the womb? Reading it after a few years will be nostalgic and this can be the best gift while your child is a grown-up.
8. Play the Gender Guessing Game
Have a few pink and blue cards and place them inside a box. Every morning you and your husband can randomly pick a card from the box and see if it’s a boy or girl choice that day. It is just a funny routine that will add a crown to your excitement.
9. Cook / Have Your Favorite Food
The second trimester is when you get your pregnancy cravings to reach new highs. Use it to the fullest and enjoy eating to the core. However, in order to stay and eat healthily and nourish the baby properly, ensure that you cook your own food at home and indulge in takeaways or dining-outs on rare occasions.
10. Plan a Tea Party
You are not going to get that gossip time for the next year. So, blast with your friends, laugh out loud, go crazy.
11. Sleep Like a Kumbhakaran
New parents pray to get their “sleep time”, sleep after a baby actually qualifies as a luxury! Why don’t you plan in advance and enjoy nap times so that you are ready for the show? Sleep, rest, sleep, rest. Trust us, you are going to have a hectic routine ahead.
12. Go Shopping
Shopping is the best therapy for most women all over the world. You are changing sizes. From the first trimester till the third trimester, you are mandated to buy new dresses with those tight-fitting. Similarly, plan for your post-delivery outfits and feeding costumes, and do a gala shopping time.
13. Freak Out With Your Laptop
This is the same as meeting your friends. A no-time for the next few months. So, watch your favorite movies, and serials and freak out, especially during those sleepless nights.
14. Take a Belly Massage
Those giggles and wiggles are not for a preggy mommy, Have your husband do the massage on your belly with creams. Seek professionals and get yourself pampered to the core.
15. Arrange Your Wardrobe For Little One
Sounds silly? Post-delivery you have a big list of priorities and arranging the wardrobe is last in the queue. Plan and buy enough hangers and wardrobe boxes, arrange the newborn dresses, and towels neatly, get a place to store the diapers and plan in advance.
16. Decorate The Baby’s Room
There are an ‘n’ number of stuff available in the market to decorate your little one’s crib/room, but how about making your own crafts? Little babies don’t expect branded items, small charts cut into different shapes, painted in different colors, and hung around can be a lovely sight for your baby. Give a try and experience the “Awesomeness” when you make it yourself.
17. Plan a Romantic Date with Your Partner
All you are going to expect from your husband post-delivery is asking him to change those diapers. So, why not enjoy the “twosome limited time” before you become “three”.
18. Watch a Cartoon Movie in the Theater
Get a little kiddy experience and check how it feels to watch a cartoon movie on the big screen. Not only would the parents, but the baby inside the womb also love it!
19. Swim Alone
The best way to relax your body and mind during pregnancy is to take a swim. If you are not a swimmer, just sit in a baby pool with your legs folded and enjoy the rhythm of the water around.
20. Phone a Friend
All of us have our best buddy who is away from the city where we live. This is the time you can just chit-chat and chats with that friend for long hours. If your friend is yet to have a baby, prepare your friend also for the “time limit” you are going to get for these one-on-one chats.
21. Read, re-read
If you are an avid reader, then reading great books should be on the top of your list. Grab a book that you have been wanting to read for a long time, but haven’t been finding the time for the same. Spend those sleepless nights indulging in your passion for reading.
22. Bond With Your Mom or Mom-in-Law
Once you embark on a journey to motherhood, you will also find a newfound respect for all mothers riding high in your blood. You can use this precious time to bond with your mother or mother-in-law, learn all about your and your spouse’s babyhood antics, let them pamper you, and thank them well before the baby is born.
Coming up with a name for the baby is the next uphill task that new parents face.
The tips given above will not only prepare you for the baby but also let you enjoy those 9 months. Do not panic, it doesn’t mean that all your freedom and fun are going to be no more. You are going to open a new book of happiness. The definitions of love, joy, fun, hobby, passion – all these are going to get a new meaning in your life and sure you would enjoy their lot. Happy pregnancy!
