Tackle the Stress during COVID-19

The universe offers more than everything to us, your baby inside your womb is a powerful and a very special gift from the universe. If you are going to deliver a baby in the coming month, the chance of you experiencing more anxiety is completely natural. You are in transitional energy to become a mother.

Spiritually and psychologically, an expected mother should always turn the negative into positive. Avoiding negative will never help for your baby, in fact facing the negative situation and tackling it will make your baby even stronger. As a well-informed mother, you must check facts of the current situation and your surrounding.

Healthcare providers are suggesting especially for pregnant women to take extra precautions and not to take any chances for exposing to any kind of disease. There is very limited data on the effects of COVID-19 on pregnant women.

The data available so far is limited, but pregnant women do not seem to be more likely to have severe coronaviral symptoms than anyone else. According to a study released by the World Health Organisation, only 8 per cent of women had serious diseases and 1 per cent had vital conditions.

Dr. WeiZhang, the Northwestern University epidemiologist, and one of the authors of the Lancet reports said, "Fortunately there is no proof that mother-child transmission is vertical. An analysis of the 33 newborns that had been born at Wuhan Children's Hospital where only three were exhibiting symptoms of the virus.”

Pregnant females exposing to infection during the influenza pandemics of 1918 and 1957 was very less in number. For example in the past, only 12 pregnant women who developed SARS during the 2003 epidemic, 9 out of 12 have survived the coronavirus. SARS has been the nearest relative of the new coronavirus to pregnant women.

The children who were born a century ago during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 is also an example. Historically, global responses to outbreaks and epidemics have not properly represented pregnant women's cases. Therefore, we must not assume things but focus on what is in our hands.

DO’s

• Pay attention to hand washing and use sanitizer
• Talk to family and friends. It can help you to speak to people whom you trust. Happy video chats!
• Cooking what you love to eat but make sure it is healthy.
• Sleep happily and be at your comfort.
• Watch funny videos and good movies.
• You also simply can look at a beautiful painting or be at your garden listening to nature.
• Listen to relaxing music or any of your favourite music.
• Talk about old happy memories with your loved ones.
• Rediscover your hobbies which you can practise during your pregnancy like a painting, reading books (the positive one).
• You can also start learning new innovative stuff from the internet.
• Do exercise which you can (depend on pregnancy week).
• Do meditation to keep yourself calm and decrease the level of anxiety and stress.

DONT’s

• Don’t sit idle and thinking of the possible negative outcome.
• Avoid going to hospital if not necessary
• Avoid “what if” thoughts.
• Don’t talk or discuss the virus more and more with your friends and family.
• Don’t consume too much of news it will only create havoc and stress.
• Don’t let fear dominate your mind and body.
• Your child should not know how this COVID-19 is affecting others in a negative way.
• Avoid visiting places even your relatives.
• Avoid using too much of social media.
• Avoid your hands from frequent touch to your mouth and nose especially.
• Don’t order food from any e-commerce website for now.
• Avoid doing any activity which includes the involvement of people.