Pregnancy

How to face pregnancy in Islamic way?

By Fera Andriani

Pregnancy is a beautiful phenomenon in human life, especially for females. It should be welcomed thankfully to God. But unfortunately sometimes we find in reality life women who are still confused or even frustrated when they had pregnancy.

Many factors cause this thing and one of it is the less-preparation to face the pregnancy. The less-preparation can happen from any side, mentally, monetary, physically, or spiritually.

Islam offers some solution to prepare and face the pregnancy so Moslems can through it well. The first thing is praying to God consistently, day and night. The pairs should pray to God humbly, whishing that the newborn baby will be born perfectly, safe and healthy at the right moment. Because we live in weirdly time. Nowadays the weather is so unpredictable. Storm, gale, tornado, tsunami, flood, are always be menace any time, any where. The couples should pray to God too, wishing the child to be a good behaved kid and be a kind man in the future. Without forgetting to pray, may God give the prosperity in order to raise the children well.

The second solution, Islam teaches the pairs, especially the mother to be, to keep doing good activity. Pregnancy is not a closure of doing many activities such as teaching, going to work, or social projects. Those things are good to habituate the baby to do the virtue earlier, even since it was in mother’s uterus.

The third solution, Islam teaches the believers especially the parents to be, to recite Koran more during the pregnancy. Reciting the verses can make the feeling calm and avoid stress.
By doing those solutions, and with the God willing, the women will face the pregnancy happily, and be ready to give birth and prepare themselves for breastfeeding.