Any tips / advice / resources / books / recommendations on how to take care of yourself during third trimester and bounce back after delivery in 4th trimester?

I just started my third trimester and I am feeling so unprepared. Work really took a toll and I haven’t focused on myself for the first two trimesters. Help me please!

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Light exercise — even just walking 15 minutes a day if you can manage it — is really beneficial. I panicked in the final few weeks of my third trimester and looked up some light stretches and breathing exercises to help with delivery too, and I feel like it helped. Try to eat well and get the nutrients you need — both to take care of yourself in the third trimester and to make a plan for how you’ll nourish yourself postpartum. I found smoothies pretty helpful for doing that. And above all, try to give yourself grace: your body is making a whole new person! That’s amazing! Take care of yourself and your needs but try not to hold yourself to some impossible standard of “bouncing back”

These were some of the stretches I liked: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-8h2FPRvg_

The breathing exercises from Bridget Teyler on YouTube were super helpful for me for managing the pain of early contractions

The book Your Body Is Magic has some other exercises and nutritional information and recipes (a little woo woo but I liked it)

Solly baby posted these postpartum smoothies I loved https://sollybaby.com/blogs/news/five-delicious-postpartum-smoothie-recipes

I also had a freezer stash of meals (home cooked and Trader Joes) for postpartum, since we weren’t in a place to cook for ourselves for the first 2 or 3 weeks

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