What to do if your belly is bloated during pregnancy

In fact, for pregnant women, it is common to experience discomfort such as bloating in the stomach after pregnancy. When dealing with this very common bloating during pregnancy, it is obviously necessary for pregnant women to deal with it through diet therapy and diet matching. So, what should you do if you have bloating in your stomach during pregnancy? Let's take a look.

1. Eat small meals frequently to help the stomach digest food faster.

To effectively relieve bloating, you must start with diet. If a pregnant woman eats a lot of food when she feels bloated, it will increase the burden on gastrointestinal digestion and make the bloating worse. Therefore, pregnant women may wish to change their habit of eating three meals a day to eating six to eight meals a day, with smaller portions at each meal. Be careful not to eat too many kinds of food at each meal, and don’t eat too liquid food, because liquid food is not necessarily easy to digest. On the contrary, pregnant women can choose to eat semi-solid foods such as oatmeal.

2. Develop a daily bowel movement habit

Eat more vegetables, fruits and high-fiber foods to promote gastrointestinal motility.

3. Appropriate exercise - Intestinal peristalsis can be promoted through whole body or waist muscle activities.

Doing proper exercise such as walking during pregnancy can also promote intestinal motility and relieve bloating. Therefore, it is recommended that pregnant women go for a walk outside for about 20 minutes 30 minutes to 1 hour after a meal to help with bowel movements and gas discharge. Please note that some activities that involve impact or require running too intensely are absolutely not suitable.

4. Take Perilla Drink

Take an appropriate amount of perilla leaves and add water to boil. The amount and proportion are not limited. It can promote qi circulation and strengthen the spleen and stomach. You can also use tangerine peel (fresh tangerine peel) instead of perilla.

5. Eat spicy food in moderation

Spicy foods such as ginger, scallions, and garlic can promote gastrointestinal motility and warm the body, so they can be taken in moderation.

6. Drink plenty of water

Drink boiled water before breakfast and take in at least 2,000cc of water every day. You can also add a little honey to the water to prevent the stool from drying out, but use a small amount as a rule.

7. Abdominal massage

Starting from the lower right abdomen, massage in a clockwise direction with gentle force, 10 to 20 circles each time, 2 to 3 times a day, to help relieve abdominal bloating.

8. Take Wei San

When the bloating is severe, you can take some commercially available stomach powder (please consult a doctor before taking it). As long as it is not taken for a long time or in large quantities, it will not affect the fetus.

As mentioned above, taking stomach powder, abdominal massage, regular bowel movements, eating small meals frequently, drinking perilla drinks regularly, and drinking plenty of water can all help relieve the symptoms of bloating in pregnant women to a certain extent. Therefore, when pregnant women often experience bloating in their lives, they may wish to try the methods described in the article.