Hydration and Drinking Water

Pregnancy Podcast

Vanessa Merten

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.5 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Staying hydrated is crucial to help your overall health. Water makes up around 60% of your total body weight, and every cell needs water to function. Staying hydrated enables you to regulate body temperature, aids in digestion, transporting nutrients and oxygen to cells, absorbing nutrients, and eliminating waste. These processes are also crucial during pregnancy for your baby, and you have increased water requirements when pregnant. Plus, if you are not drinking enough water, you can exacerbate many common pregnancy symptoms.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the pregnancy podcast with Vanessa Merton.
0:07.0	Hello, thank you for tuning into the pregnancy podcast.
0:14.6	In this episode, we're talking about drinking water and staying hydrated.
0:19.0	We're going to talk about the evidence on what types of water or what sources of water are the best for your health and how to ensure
0:26.2	that you're staying hydrated. Plus we're going to touch on hydration during labor and
0:31.5	introducing water to your baby.
0:34.1	You can find the full article and all of the links and resources that accompany this episode
0:39.3	at pregnancy podcast.com slash hydrate. Pregnancy
0:50.0	There are a lot of episodes that are exclusively available to pregnancy podcast premium members. The good news is that right now you can try pregnancy podcast premium for free for seven days.
0:57.0	Premium members have access to over 200 episodes in the private podcast feed.
1:02.0	You can listen to those in your
1:04.3	favorite podcast app or on the website and all of the content, the past episodes and the
1:09.9	new episodes that come out each week are all ad free.
1:14.0	Plus when you sign up as a premium member, you get instant access to a digital copy of the
1:19.2	Your Birth Plan book, and that walks you step by step through creating and writing your
1:24.0	birth plan. Try pregnancy podcast premium for free for seven days and get a copy of
1:30.7	the Your Birth Plan book at pregnancy podcast.com.
1:35.6	trial. Staying hydrated is crucial for your
1:45.0	body weight.
1:46.0	and every single cell in your body needs water to function.
1:50.0	Staying hydrated helps you regulate body temperature, aids in digestion, transports nutrients
1:56.0	and oxygen to cells, helps with absorbing nutrients and eliminating waste.
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