Diet
In the 2nd trimester of pregnancy, the bones of your baby are growing, and thus is his brain. Your body requires a lot of vitamin D and calcium for growing healthy bones. Along with that, omega 3 is vital for your baby’s brain development.
Poses (Second Trimester)
If you want, you can still practice all of the yoga poses we discussed for the first trimester and introduce more poses to your practice.
Practice this pose to strengthen the thigh muscles, boost digestive functions, relieve stomach ailments, trouble often encountered during pregnancy, strengthen pelvic muscles and deal with labour.
Steps to do this pose:
- Start with kneeling on the ground.
- Bring big toes together and isolate the heels.
- Lower buttocks onto the inside surface of your feet while ensuring heels touching the side of hips.
- Place hands on knees and palms down.
- Ensure that your head and back is erect but not stressed.
Practice this pose to enjoy the same benefits that Vajrasana has to offer.
Steps to do this pose:
- Sit down in Vajrasana.
- Isolate your Knees as fast as you can while ensuring your totes in touch with the ground.
- Isolate the feet just ample to let the buttocks rest on the ground.
- Try to isolate your keens but do not stress.
Practice this pose to boost digestion, accomplish mental clarity, enhance respiration, and strengthen legs.
Steps to do this pose:
- Come onto all of your fours.
- Exhale, lift hips up.
- Straighten elbows and knees, creating an inverted V-shape with the body.
- Ensure that hands are shoulder-width apart and feet hip-width apart and parallel to each other.
- Keep knees slightly bent and hold.
- Take kind breaths and exhale.
- Bend your knees and back to table pose.
- Chill into child pose.
Practice this pose for the chest and shoulder opener.
Steps to do this pose:
- Sit in Vajrasana again and ensure that thighs and knees are separate.
- Kindly bend forward, placing forehead on the ground or the cushion placed in front.
- Extend your arms forward, and palms pressed into the ground.
- Rest with kind breaths
Practice this pose to get rid of stiffness from the upper back and shoulders, enhance breathing capacity, boost blood circulation, and more.
Steps to do this pose:
- Stand with arms by your sides and feet together.
- Inhale, extend both of your arms overhead and kindly stretch up.
- Exhale, release the stretch.
- Now, extend both of your arms overhead.
- Inhale, kindly stretch the right arm longer than the left and then exhale, release the stretch.
- Inhale, kindly stretch the left longer.
- Exhale, release the stretch.
- Keep alternating between left and right arms for five rounds at a moderate speed.
- Brings arms down and chill.
Practice this pose to relax the hamstring, abdominal muscles, inner thigh, and more.
Steps to do this pose:
- Lie down on the right side with the left leg on the right leg.
- Bend right arm, placing your elbow on the ground.
- Support head on your right palm.
- Place left arm on your left thigh.
- Kindly raise your left leg as high as you can, slide your left hand towards your left foot, grasp leg wherever hand reaches.
- Repeat the same on the other side.