• Eat 4-6 small meals per day and snack often. Don't let your stomach get empty.
• Sip on juices or peppermint tea.
• Eat crackers before getting out of bed, then get up slowly.
• Avoid caffeine, fried foods, and spicy foods.
• Do not go without eating for longer than two hours
• If you cannot keep anything down for 24 hours or more, call the birth center.
• Take 25mg Vitamin B-6 four times a day as needed and 25mg Unisom-Doxylamine succinate (OTC sleep aid) after dinner.
• Drink Ginger tea (capsules or ginger root sliced and steeped in boiling water).
• Drink Gatorade or Pedialyte to replace lost fluid and electrolytes.
• Wear Sea Bands.
• Eat smaller meals, Avoid fried foods. Try eating almonds.
• Avoid caffeine.
• Do not lie down for at least 1 hour after eating.
• Milk may help soothe heartburn.
• Mylanta, Maalox, Tums or any other low-sodium antacid, as directed is okay.
• Over the counter Pepcid or Zantac, taken as directed on box
• Add more fruits, fresh vegetables and salads daily.
• Drink 8-10 glasses of liquid each day (minimum!).
• Eat whole grain breads and/or bran cereal.
• Walk each day.
• Drink/eat prune juice, apricot juice, raisins and figs.
• Take cellulose-based stool softener such as Metamucil or Fibercon.
• Over the counter Colace taken as directed on box
• Avoid constipation.
• Add roughage to your diet daily, vegetables, salads, fruit or whole grains.
• Drink 8-10 glasses of liquids each day.
• Avoid long periods of sitting, get up and move around as you feel the need .
• Discuss this with your CNM at your visit.
• Witch Hazel on cotton balls applied to hemorrhoids may help relieve symptoms.
• Tucks relief pads can be used as directed.
• Preparation H can be used as directed.
• Practice relaxation, decrease stress.
• Avoid caffeine: coffee, tea, chocolate. Don’t eliminate suddenly from diet, wean gradually.
• Tylenol as directed. NO aspirin or ibuprofen.
• Consult with the CNM if headache is not relieved with rest and Tylenol, or if visual disturbances are present.
• Rest and increase fluids.
• Try massage therapy or a chiropractic care assessment.
• Avoid nasal sprays and nose drops.
• Apply pressure on either side of your nose and between your eyebrows.
• Tilt head slightly back. Apply pressure for 1-2 minutes.
• Use a humidifier if your house is dry, especially if you have forced air heat.
• Increase use of Vitamin C foods such as oranges, grapefruits, broccoli, cabbage and peppers.
• Increase fluids.
• Avoid rubbing the area.
• Favor the side that is tender.
• This is round ligament stretching and will go away with relaxation.
• Flex thighs towards the abdomen.
• Use a pillow to support lower abdomen for sleeping.
• Change positions slowly. Avoid sudden movements.
• Try a warm bath or heating pad on low.
• Hereditary, probably unavoidable.
• Keep your protein intake high.
• You may use creams, lotions or oils.
• Stretch marks may fade.
• Increase calcium and potassium by eating bananas, potatoes, milk products and salmon.
• Stick out your heel and flex your leg with toes pointed toward your nose.
• Walk out a cramp: do not massage the muscle.
• Runner’s stretch- heel flat on floor, stretch calf of affected leg by gently lunging forward.
• Increase fluids: water, juices, hot teas, ginger ale, Gatorade.
• Rest, Rest, Rest.
• Take Tylenol as directed.
• You may take plain Sudafed.
• For cough, you may take Robitussin D-M (or store brand equivalent).
• For fever over 101, call the CNM.
• Call you PCP for any illness that lasts longer than a week.
• For suspected flu or Covid-19, or exposure to flu or Covid-19 (household exposure) call the CNM.
• Listen to your body, rest.
• Inform CNM if fatigue interferes with daily life.