This passion fruit juice recipe mixed with chamomile tea is an excellent home remedy against insomnia in pregnancy because it has sedative properties that helps the woman to relax and have a good night's sleep.
But in addition to taking this juice, it is important to ensure good sleep hygiene, lying down and getting up at the same time, light feeding before going to sleep and turning off any electronic device such as TV or computer. However, if the TV is plugged into a movie or program that you do not like very much, this can favor sleep.
Here's how to prepare this delicious recipe.
Ingredients
- 4 passion fruit
- 1 glass of chamomile tea
- honey to taste
Method of preparation
Prepare the chamomile tea by placing 1 tea sachet in a glass of boiling water and let stand for 3 minutes. Then beat this tea in the blender with the passion fruit (and its seeds) and sweeten to taste with honey, because honey also has calming properties.
This can be taken every day before bed, after a relaxing warm bath and a hot meal because these strategies also favor sleep.
It is normal for a woman to have insomnia in the third trimester of pregnancy, and even some nightmares, and this tends to normalize after the baby's birth, so it should not be of much concern. This happens because the increase of estrogen in pregnancy, has exciting action, which can cause difficulty sleeping and awakenings noturo.
Spending the night awake does not hurt the baby, but the woman needs to rest properly, so it's good to take naps after lunch, for example, lying down so as not to disturb the digestion.
