Why Pregnant Women Should Try Meditation

Pregnancy can be a wonderful and exciting experience, but it also brings its own set of stresses and worries, ranging from maintaining good health to worries about your child’s impending arrival and future. There has been a great emphasis on maintaining good physical health during pregnancy – which is indeed extremely important. But an expectant mother’s mental and holistic health is just an important, which is why mediation is a must-do for pregnant women. Read on to find out why – 

• Reduce Stress – Regular meditation can help in removing stress and negative thoughts while promoting relaxation and calmness. Stress often has a lasting physical impact on the body, and can also take away from proper decision making. In challenging and rushed times like pregnancy, meditation can thus help calm the storms of time, ensuring that you are able to rest and relax properly. Reduced stress can also aid in better lifestyle adoption, as it removes cravings for junk food, caffeine, or impulsive and rash decisions.
• Reduce Symptoms – Pregnancy is surely something wonderful and exciting, but there is no sugarcoating the challenges it brings, which includes bodily discomfort, poor sleep, fatigue, and mood changes. Meditation can help alleviate these symptoms, which in turn means a more emotionally balanced and physically healthy you. These reduced symptoms can also help in promoting a more positive and happy attitude towards your pregnancy.
• Make Connections – Pregnancy brings perhaps the most dramatic change in the human body and expecting mothers may sometimes feel uncomfortable or even disconnected with their own self, physically and mentally. Practicing meditation can help you appreciate the strength and vitality of your body, and also help you foster a physical and emotional connection with the life growing inside you. The mindfulness helps you realize that your body changes are natural and temporary and that they will end with something very new and amazing.
• Post Pregnancy – The positive impact of meditation continues even after pregnancy. The first few months post-birth can be very challenging for new mothers, but studies have shown that those who practiced mediation regularly were less likely to face postpartum depression, and have a more positive and energetic attitude towards motherhood.
• For Your Baby – A growing body of interesting though tentative research is suggesting that the health benefits of mindfulness and meditation may be passed down to your ward as well. Meditation may help in preventing premature birth, and can also help in promoting the healthy development of babies post their birth. This also seemed to be linked to the fact that mothers who meditated were at a better emotional position to take care of their children.

Hence, meditation can pack a lot of benefits, and give mothers a natural tool with no side effects to help them cope with the physical and emotional challenges that come with pregnancy and new motherhood. So give mediation a try – you can simply sit in contemplation for a while, or take the help of the many guiding tools available across the internet to get you started. You will begin to see the benefits for yourself.