Tips For Safely Moving While Pregnant

Tips For Safely Moving While Pregnant

Moving is known to be one of the most stressful activities that we come across in our day to day routines. The stress is awful when you are fit and healthy, imagine how much more difficult it must be for an expectant mother, someone who is already under increased emotional and physical strain. Pregnancy plays with your hormones which affect your emotional state and obviously your physical state is heavily compromised.

If you are pregnant your first priority is the health and well-being of yourself and your child, here are some tips and advice to help make moving easier for you and to keep you safe.

Before anything else, it is imperative that you see your doctor or health care provider, to make sure you are able to undertake any moving tasks and to make sure you know what you can and can’t do. The stage of your pregnancy has a large effect on this, the first and third trimesters are the most delicate stages where you must avoid heavy lifting and too much activity. If you can decide when to move the beginning of your second trimester is the best time.

If you’re on a budget, hiring professional moving services is a great option. A moving company will do all the moving of your furniture, and can also do the packing and unpacking. (Benzinga) (expatfinancial.com) A great option is also to use a move-out cleaning company to help take care of the cleanliness before and after the move, which can greatly reduce the stress of the whole and usually not so short process.

Planning is a good strategy to make your moving as less stressful as possible. Delegating as much as possible is also ideal.

  •  As soon as you know you will be relocating, it’s a good idea to start getting rid of unwanted things and start sorting through your belongings, to see what you want to take.
  • You can begin organizing, packing and getting rid of things not needed, or wanted. The fewer things you need to move the easier it will be.
  • Take frequent breaks while you’re packing and of course during the actual day.   
  •  Keep organized and make lists. It’s easy to forget things during pregnancy.
  • Prepare a moving day bag, clothes, snacks, medication, water, toilet paper, phone chargers, and anything you will need on the day.
  • Hold off buying baby gear until you have moved. It’s only more things to have to relocate. (cobblerexpress.com)

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