PREGNANCY DO'S & DON'TS

It’s okay to…

• Take WARM baths in your bathtub

• Maintain your current level of exercise, this is acceptable and healthy

• Working in your garden, wear gloves

• Eat canned tuna once a week or less

• Eat a balanced diet

• Take a prenatal vitamin daily, any over the counter prenatal vitamin is fine.

• Try to drink at least 64 ounces (6 to 8 glasses) of water per day.

Avoid While Pregnant

• Alcohol

• Street drugs such as:

▪ Marijuana

▪ Cocaine

▪ Ecstasy

▪ Meth

• Medication or Prescription Drugs

Do not take any medications, over the counter, or prescribed medications that has not been prescribed by your Provider
Do not take any supplements that are not approved by your Provider

• Tobacco, all types

• Excessive caffeine (50 mg per day or less)

• Raw meat

• Swordfish, shark, marlin, and fresh tuna

• Refrain from non-pasteurized milks and cheeses

• Deli meats that are not heated to steaming

• Overheating your body, such as very hot showers, baths, hot tubs, saunas, too much time spent outside during the summer months.

• Lifting anything weighing more than 15 pounds

• High impact exercise or excessive or Valsalva maneuvers

• Changing cat litter boxes and scooping feces

• Gardening without wearing gloves