Fainting is common during pregnancy. The blood may pool in the lower body and the brain may become temporarily deprived of oxygen, causing fainting or dizziness.
Suggestions:
- Avoid standing for long periods of time
- While standing practice contracting and relaxing your leg and buttocks muscles to help blood
return to your head
- When resting lay on your side as opposed to your back
- When sitting return to standing slowly
- Don't get out of a hot bath too quickly
- Keep cool in hot weather
- If you feel faint, sit to avoid injury and place your head lower than your body, kneeling on all fours
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- Make sure you blood sugar isn't low, eat small protein rich snacks throughout the day
- Shiatsu points Lung 9 (LU9) and Heart 7 (HT7) together, if done by someone else, or separately if alone, for 5-7 seconds, repeat three times, then do the same to the opposite arm
