Having a healthy baby all depends on pregnancy preparation. Are you really ready?

In order to give birth to a healthy baby, in addition to having high-quality sperm and eggs combining into a good embryo, an excellent environment is also needed for development. Therefore, friends who want to get pregnant must do a good job of preparing for pregnancy. Let’s take a look at several methods of preparing for pregnancy in traditional Chinese medicine.

Preparing for pregnancy: 1. Keep fit

Health care refers to whole body conditioning. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that a person is a whole, and the five internal organs of the human body are physiologically interrelated, and there are influences of mutual promotion and mutual restraint. That is, if there is a problem with one organ, it will also cause problems with other organs. Therefore, the pre-pregnancy preparation advocated by traditional Chinese medicine focuses on conditioning the whole body rather than conditioning a single organ. However, because the liver, spleen, and kidney functions have the greatest impact on women's qi and blood, more attention should be paid to their conditioning during pre-pregnancy conditioning.

The kidneys are the foundation of our constitution and are responsible for reproduction, growth and development. If the kidney function is not sound, it will affect conception and even lead to infertility or miscarriage. “Food supplements are worse than medicine supplements”, and kidney care is no exception. Foods that are generally beneficial to kidney function include pork kidney, oysters, walnuts, sea cucumbers, shrimps, bone marrow, black sesame, cherries, mulberries, yam, etc. In addition, you should also pay attention to moderate exercise, which can improve your physical fitness, strengthen your muscles and bones, and consolidate your kidney energy; the couple's life should be moderate, not forced or indulgent; rest on time.

Pregnancy preparation and conditioning trick 2: nourishing blood

Blood is innate and is the foundation of life. It circulates throughout the body, nourishing the internal organs, tendons, bones, skin and hair, keeping the functions of the internal organs, meridians, five senses, nine orifices, limbs and bones normal, while maintaining the vital activities of the human body and its various tissues. However, when problems such as blood deficiency and blood stasis occur, they will affect health.

During this time, you should maintain a regular daily routine, ensure rest and adequate exercise, and avoid overwork, because Chinese medicine believes that excessive work will secretly deplete yin blood. At the same time, we should also pay attention to self-regulation of emotions. People with blood deficiency are prone to emotional reactions such as depression and anxiety, and excessive emotional reactions will in turn secretly consume yin blood. This cycle will inevitably lead to a vicious circle.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that general red or black foods can have a blood-replenishing effect, such as mulberries, beef liver, lamb liver, carrots, black chicken, red dates, brown sugar, red beans, etc. The spleen and stomach are the source of the production of Qi and blood. Too many sweet foods will hinder the production of Qi and blood, so eat less sweets. In addition, you should eat less irritating, overly cold, or overly hot food, which is also good for maintaining the spleen and stomach.

Preparing for pregnancy 3: Resting your mind

Traditional Chinese medicine has a saying that "nourishing with medicine is not as good as nourishing with food, nourishing with food is not as good as nourishing with essence, nourishing with essence is not as good as nourishing with spirit". The so-called nourishing of spirit mainly refers to mental conditioning. The moon waxes and wanes, people experience joys and sorrows, separations and reunions. Everyone has emotions, and the quality of emotions determines the state of physical health. Generally speaking, a state of quietness and harmony, clear mind and calmness is more appropriate.

A happy mood and cheerful personality are not only beneficial to a healthy mind, but also can enhance the body's immunity and is beneficial to metabolism. If you are under the influence of negative psychological factors such as loneliness, depression, loss, and inferiority, you will have physical health problems over time, which is of no benefit to expectant mothers. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the psychological state of the parents also affects conception, and after conception it will also affect the psychological development of the fetus due to "external appearances and internal feelings."

Preparing for pregnancy 4: nourishing qi

Qi in traditional Chinese medicine is a kind of energy. It is the vital energy of the human body and the material basis for the composition and maintenance of the human body. It is a subtle substance that is constantly moving and has strong vitality. Insufficient vital energy will lead to poor function of internal organs, and the body will be in a weak state, which will manifest as: shortness of breath, laziness to speak, general fatigue, low voice, shortness of breath and sweating when moving, dizziness, palpitations, poor appetite, etc. If the body is always in this "sickly" state, how can we talk about eugenics?

People with qi deficiency are often in a low mental state, so they need to cheer up and face life with optimism, open-mindedness and happiness. Due to insufficient vital energy and poor organ function, the ability to adapt to changes in cold and heat is poor. It is easy to catch a cold when the cold weather comes, so special attention should be paid to keeping warm. Pay attention to a balanced, nutritious and diversified diet. You can eat more beef, chicken, pork, glutinous rice, soybeans, white lentils, dates, crucian carp, carp, quail, eel, shrimp, mushrooms, yam, longan, etc. Avoid eating raw, cold, greasy, spicy and other foods.