Duchess of Cambridge: plenty of fluids and eating small amounts frequently the key to recovery In terms of the type of food to eat, we recommend that women maintain a healthy, balanced diet, eating the same sort of food they would do normally. They should eat anything they find palatable, whatever they can keep down. It's a matter of working out the things that make the nausea worse. And of course fluid intake is really key, water being the best liquid. Some women find that eating ginger helps to settle their stomach, and for other women wristbands that are used to help with travel sickness can help, as they press on a pressure point that is connected to the part of the body that governs nausea. Once women return home from hospital we advise them to take it easy but we don't really like women who are pregnant to be too sedentary because we don't want to risk blood clots forming, so they need to keep mobile and maintain a normal level of activity. A working woman would need to take a week or two off work at least, though some women bounce back quickly and some take rather longer.