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Bloating and Gassiness
Feeling gassy and bloated? According to Ginny Graves, author of "Pregnancy Fitness: Mind, Body, Spirit," those pregnancy hormones are to blame once again.
Progestrone is the biggest culprit here: It's the hormone responsible for relaxing uterine muscles (to avoid premature contractions), but it also affects the smooth muscle in your digestive tract, making you bloated, gassy, and uncomfortable, and to say the least, constipated.
What's to be done?
Pay attention to your diet and avoid foods that make you gassy. It may be the typical ones (fatty foods like French fries and ice cream; beans, Brussel sprouts, and broccoli) or you may find that new foods are making you gassy (bread, potato chips, you name it).
Eat smaller amounts and try to eat more slowly. The gentler you are to your sluggishly functioning digestive system, the less gas you'll have.
Walk it off. Exercise (sound familiar?) can help your digestion, your circulation, and yes, your flatulence.
Rock it off. Graves explains that doctors have found that vigorous rocking in a rocking chair has helped patients recovering from abdominal surgery pass gas more quickly through their systems.
A heads up: Unlike most other symptoms, you may find that your gassiness increases once the baby's born, especially if you deliver by C-section. Pushing during labor can also harm tissue in your anus and sphincter, leading to postpartum hemorrhoids and incontinence.
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