Loading ...Scary Myths While Pregnant
Having your first baby is exciting, you start planning names, and picking out clothes. You plan every detail of your birth meticulously and even talk about having the baby early or late. Then as things move forward and every stranger in the world, from the pregnant mother next to you in the grocery store, to the little blue haired lady at the hairdressers gives you mountains of unwanted advice. You scoff at some of them, someone says you’re not allowed to have orange juice or the baby will be breach, and you know that’s not possible, but then you start to hear ones that have a tiny bit of possibility and you wonder, could that be true? Here are the facts about the myths that you might seriously consider.
Someone will tell you that you need to drink lots of water or the baby will get dirty or an infection from its own fluid. This isn’t true. Amniotic fluid replaces itself completely, eight times a day, or every three hours. It continues even after the water has broken, which is why anyone who has a baby continues leaking after the initial burst. Now while drinking enough water won’t damage the fluid that the baby is in, it is still important for mom to be to stay hydrated. Being dehydrated can trigger contractions, hospitals find that the day of parades in summer, or first day of a festival they get a rush of mothers to be experiencing contractions. Most times they can stop the contractions simply by giving IV fluids.
One of the scariest myths is that if you lift your arms above your head, the baby will die. The possibility of this even being close to true has mothers laying awake at night wondering what if they tuck their arms under their pillow. It’s simply not true at all. The umbilical cord wraps around the neck, only when the baby does it itself. Babies do all kinds of flips, twists and turns inside the womb and sometimes the cord does wrap around the neck. The ultrasound can show if it is around the neck. If you don’t feel your baby kick or you feel there is something wrong it is best you phone your doctor, but be assured it’s not because you lifted something off a high shelf.
There are so many myths out there that it is impossible to go through them all. Each culture has their myths, and those mix with facts of modern time. You will also hear a mother who swears by something that makes no sense, but you wonder, if just maybe it could be true. Books are a great source of information, and so is your doctor.
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