Sonam Kapoor welcomed her first youngster with Anand Ahuja on August 20, this 12 months. “On 20.8.2022, we welcomed our lovely child boy with bowed heads and open hearts. Thanks to all the docs, nurses, family and friends who’ve supported us on this journey. It’s solely the start, however we all know our lives are endlessly modified,” the couple wrote, saying the start of their son ‘Vayu‘ on Instagram.
Now, the actor has opened up about her prenatal, being pregnant, and postnatal journey in a collection of tales on the photo-sharing app. “I’ve been getting lots of questions on my prenatal, being pregnant, and postnatal. I’ll do my greatest to reply and do tales on all the things,” the actor wrote. She began out by revealing that she took the assistance of the ‘Light Start Methodology’ to ship her son.
Sonam took the assistance of Light Start Methodology. (Supply: Sonam Kapoor/Instagram)
Sharing that her “prenatal journey was fairly totally different”, Sonam stated, “I used to be very certain I needed to have as pure a journey as I might that might result in a pure supply with as little medical intervention as attainable. For that, I made a decision to take the assistance of @gentlebirthmethod with Dr Gowri Motha. She has written a stunning guide referred to as Light Start Methodology that explains learn how to cope with the prenatal journey.”
Speaking in regards to the knowledgeable, she added that Dr Motha was a practising ob-gyn in London’s NHS and was disillusioned by the crude and indifferent manner moms have been handled. “So, she tried to discover a gentler and kinder methodology. She makes use of lots of Ayurvedic practices, artistic therapeutic and homoeopathy. I’ve adopted her blindly. I’ve had a pure fast start due to all her teachings, and I’m breastfeeding fairly simply,” Sonam stated.
Sonam shares her being pregnant journey (Supply: Sonam Kapoor/Instagram)
What’s the ‘Light Start Methodology’?
It’s a method designed by Dr Motha so that every one the moms have a extra comfy, calm and assured birthing course of.
“It includes being optimistic within the thoughts and the physique. So, it consists of 18 weeks of sugar-free meals and likewise doing yoga throughout being pregnant. In consequence, through the time of start, the mom is extra assured, comfy and calm. It has been practised within the UK for fairly a while and has been just lately launched to mothers-to-be in India as effectively. It’s mainly a wellness program,” Dr Mannan Gupta, Gynaecologist and Managing Director, Elantis Healthcare, New Delhi, stated.
What does it entail?
Right here’s what the ‘Light Start Methodology’ consists of, in response to Dr Gupta.
*It consists of yoga and meditation for a calmer physique.
*Consuming the fitting meals, which is sugar-free and wheat-free, within the final 4 months.
*Having a optimistic mindset whereas visualising a optimistic start expertise.
*Doing hypnotherapy in order that the mom can visualise having a snug and calm supply course of.
“If girls do that, they’ve a way more comfy supply. So, it entails practising positivity within the thoughts and positivity within the physique,” he stated.
How are you going to go for it?
In the event you, too, wish to go for the Light Start Methodology, seek the advice of your obstetrician. “The obstetrician offers you a eating regimen chart which shall be sugar-free, wheat-free and gluten-free. He/she may also advocate energy yoga for higher leisure and can advise hypnotherapy and meditation together with visualising a relaxed and comfy birthing course of. There are lots of docs who’ve been skilled within the Light Start Methodology course of in Delhi whom a affected person can method,” Dr Gupta stated.
He added that there others methods additionally out there on-line as effectively — with eating regimen, yoga and meditation processes — for a pregnant lady to have a relaxed and comfy birthing course of.
Concluding, Dr Gupta defined that this system releases lots of anxiousness which girls have when they’re about to provide start and results in the supply of a wholesome child.
Sonam additionally revealed that she did lots of prenatal massages throughout her being pregnant with Dr Gowri’s therapists. “Most accommodations and spas provide prenatal therapeutic massage and your native masseuse may also suffice so long as it’s mild and also you don’t lie in your abdomen. Mendacity in your again and aspect is the perfect factor to do,” she stated.
She added that one should not do acupressure foot therapeutic massage and not using a correct therapist. “In any other case, therapeutic massage is a good way to chill out and ease the ache your physique feels by all of the insane adjustments it’s going by,” Sonam stated, sharing some helpful massages for ladies throughout being pregnant.
Sonam stated that she took lots of massages (Supply: Sonam Kapoor/Instagram)
*Potli therapeutic massage is nice for irritation and water retention.
*Swedish therapeutic massage
*Muscle-relaxing therapeutic massage
*Shirodhara therapeutic massage
*Artistic therapeutic
*Reflexology
*Lymphatic therapeutic massage
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