Staying Healthy While You Are Pregnant

Abstract

If you are pregnant or thinking of becoming pregnant soon, you have a great opportunity to start making healthy lifestyle changes. Eating a well-balanced diet, setting a healthy weight gain goal, avoiding harmful substances, getting 7–8 hours of sleep, exercising regularly, taking a daily prenatal vitamin and having regular prenatal checkups all help keep you healthy in pregnancy. Staying healthy in pregnancy helps your baby have a healthy start. It also decreases your chance of complications in pregnancy and increases the chance you will have a healthy birth.