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FAQ: How to Reduce Swollen Feet during Pregnancy?
Due to water retention, which is a common and actually purposeful symptom of fetal development, swollen feet during pregnancy can happen quite often. A long day of walking, sitting in the same position or standing can worsen this symptom and many expecting moms wonder how to reduce swollen feet during pregnancy. While most of the time swollen feet during pregnancy is absolutely normal, swelling that is persistent, severe, or involves the face and hands may be an early sign of pre-eclampsia—a potentially dangerous condition. See your physician immediately if this happens.
How to reduce swollen feet in pregnancy? Aside from taking breaks and elevating your feet whenever possible, you can help relieve uncomfortable swelling in your feet via a proper skincare routine and regular massage. At home skincare treatments can be a great way to both bond with your partner and reduce the discomfort caused by pregnancy-related swelling.
When you’re evaluating at-home pregnancy skincare options for how to reduce swollen feet during pregnancy, especially topical solutions massaged into the skin, you should be sure that the line that you use is teratology screened. This means that you are ensured that the product only contains the safest known ingredients during pregnancy, from any source. It eliminates ingredients with links to birth defects in published medical studies, and replaces them with safer choices instead.
Belli Pregnancy has set a higher standard for prenatal safety, as the only skin care line in the world that is teratology screened. The brand searches through over 16 million medical research articles in over 5000 international journals, excluding ingredients linked to birth defects or other problems with pregnancy.
Belli’s indulgent treatment for swollen feet during pregnancy includes an invigorating body scrub, followed by a heavenly massage treatment using Belli Foot Relief peppermint and menthol cream. Belli skincare’s Treatment for How to Reduce Swollen Feet in Pregnancy:
- Prep feet by using Skin Smoothing Body Exfoliator all over your feet and calves, then rinse.
- Follow with light foot massage. Ask your partner to massage your legs and feet for you, so that you can bond while feeling pampered.
- Finish by elevating feet above the heart for 10 minutes.
Foot Relief Cream is an aroma-therapeutic, anti-bacterial, moisturizing massage treatment that comforts swollen, tired feet and relieves calf cramps. Featuring peppermint, tea tree oil and shea butter, Foot Relief Cream leaves skin feeling cool and refreshed. Like every product in the Belli Pregnancy line, the Foot Relief Cream is teratology-screened.
Please consult with your doctor if you are pregnant before doing at-home massage treatments.
About Belli Founded by Jason Rubin MD and Annette Rubin in 2002, Belli is the #1 OB/GYN recommended skin care brand. At Belli, we support expectant and new mothers through this changing time by providing soothing, balanced skin products that pamper and protect. Our collections - Belli Pregnancy, Belli Motherhood and Belli Baby – address the specific needs of each stage, with thoughtful attention to the safest formulations.
Belli Pregnancy has set a higher standard for prenatal safety, as the only skin care line in the world that is teratology screened. We search through over 16 million medical research articles in over 5000 international journals, excluding ingredients linked to birth defects or other problems with pregnancy. Belli Motherhood is LactMed screened to avoid ingredients linked to harmful effects during breastfeeding. Belli Baby is screened for xenoestrogens—chemicals that can act like hormones that interfere with normal development of the reproductive system. So no matter which Belli products you use, you can have peace of mind erring on the side of caution.
Belli products are sold at national retailers including CVS Healthy Skin Care Centers, baby/maternity boutiques, fine spas, and a growing number of physician offices. The entire line can be found on belliskincare.com, along with helpful educational articles that teach women about the skin care concerns of pregnancy, motherhood, and infancy.
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