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Your body from head to toe is changing rapidly, sometimes causing inconveniences. One of those common discomforts that many woman experience is swollen feet.
Swelling is a common part of pregnancy, it may cause any areas of your body. When fluid starts to form in your legs, ankles, feet, hands, and face, it's called edema.
You may notice these changes from your second trimester, mostly when you are in the third trimester. Swelling usually happens in your leg part when the weight of the uterus and baby inside the womb puts more pressure on it. This pressure may decrease blood circulation, thereby increasing fluid level which causes swelling in your leg.
Even as your body produces hormonal differences, this may also build the fluid in your body.
Swelling is caused in the feet and ankles as the uterus expands with the fetus’s growth, putting pressure on the veins in the lower body.
Women who experience swollen feet during pregnancy may experience the following-
Follow these home remedies to reduce swelling in the feet during pregnancy-
During pregnancy, doing exercise for the foot helps to improve circulation.
Pregnant women can do foot exercises like knee lifts, raising one foot off the floor and stretching it up and down 30 times, and continue the repetitions alternatively.
Another exercise says, to raise one foot from the floor and rotate it clockwise and then anticlockwise 10 times. Continue the repetitions alternatively.
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