Why do pregnant women always have nightmares?

Pregnant women who always have nightmares may be because they are usually depressed or have encountered many terrifying things, which cause them to have nightmares frequently. In this case, pregnant women only need to relax and talk with friends more to relieve the symptoms. It is still necessary to pay attention to the situation where pregnant women often have nightmares. After all, the source of mental illness still needs to be found, and pregnant women should be completely away from the shadow in their hearts.

What to do if you often have nightmares during early pregnancy

1. If you have frequent dreams, nightmares, wake up easily, or sleep too much or too little, and feel tired, sleepy, dizzy, etc. when you wake up the next day, if these symptoms occur 2 to 4 times a week and last for more than a month, you should go to a regular hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time.

2. Dreaming is essential for every normal person and also has some benefits. However, dreams can also experience the pain brought by worries. If the content of dreams has some connection with the reasons why they cause unpleasant mood. Then, due to the influence of psychological factors, the time of dream sleep increases, but the time of dreamless sleep does not increase, and the depth of sleep becomes shallower.

3. The above phenomenon is mostly caused by emotional reasons. Emotions have a great impact on the baby during pregnancy. For example, fright, severe mental stimulation, and excessive mental stress can cause miscarriage. Don't worry too much. Emotions can affect the fetus's personality and temperament, which cannot be detected by B-ultrasound or other means. Long-term bad mood can affect the endocrine system in the long term, and have adverse effects on both the fetus and yourself.

4. Pregnant women should fundamentally eliminate the psychological factors that cause poor sleep, adopt the correct methods and attitudes to face psychological difficulties, and gradually resolve the difficulties and contradictions in reality. Painful dreams will decrease, sleep will return to normal, and many other coexisting symptoms will disappear.

In short, when the psychological factors of worry are gone, the series of reactions caused by them will also disappear.

What to pay attention to in early pregnancy diet

1. Protein intake. This period is when the body stores relatively more protein, with the fetus retaining about 170g and the mother retaining about 375g. This requires that pregnant women's dietary protein supply increase by 25g compared to non-pregnant women, and they should consume more animal and soy foods.

2. Essential fatty acids. This period is the peak period for fetal brain cell proliferation. Adequate essential fatty acids such as arachidonic acid are needed to meet the needs of brain development. Eating more marine fish can help supply DHA.

3. Intake of calcium and iron. More than half of the calcium in the fetus is stored in the late pregnancy. Pregnant women should consume 1500 mg of calcium daily and supplement with an appropriate amount of vitamin D. The fetal liver stores iron at a rate of 5 mg per day during this period, reaching 300-400 mg of iron by birth. Pregnant women should consume 28 mg of iron per day, and should consume more hemoglobin-type iron from animal foods.

4. Pregnant women should consume milk, fish and soy products regularly. It is best to fry small fish or crisp them with vinegar and eat them with bones, and drink pork rib soup. Shrimp skin is rich in calcium, so a small amount can be added to the soup; animal liver and blood are high in iron and have a high utilization rate, so they should be used frequently.

5. Vitamins. Adequate water-soluble vitamins are needed in the late stages of pregnancy, especially thiamine. Deficiency of thiamine can easily cause vomiting, fatigue, and weak uterine contractions during delivery, leading to delayed labor.

6. The supply of heat energy is the same as that in the second trimester, and there is no need to supplement too much, especially in the last month of the third trimester. The intake of saturated fat and carbohydrates should be appropriately limited to prevent the fetus from being too large and affecting smooth delivery.