My Top 5 Pregnancy Sanity Savers

September 29, 2015

1. Pregnancy Pillow

It’s rather large and takes up a lot of the bed and my husband doesn’t love it, but I couldn’t sleep on my side without my pregnancy pillow!

2. Special Water Container

I’m a horrible water drinker. I don’t drink enough water. So, I use this plastic thing that measures a quart. I fill it up with water and I force myself to drink four or five of them during the day.

3. Pregnancy Book (for Him)

We have The Birth Partner by Penny Simkin; it’s written by a doula, and it’s specifically for dads. Husbands learn how they can help during the birth, which is a really great thing.

4. Heating Pad

I use mine for all the random aches and pains that come with pregnancy. Totally essential.

5. Prenatal Yoga

It’s a great way to get active while you’re pregnant. I only wish I had time to do prenatal yoga more often!

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Reshma Shetty currently stars as Divya Katdare on USA Network’s "Royal Pains." Additionally, she has appeared on Showtime's "HAPPYish," Bravo's "Odd Mom Out", “30 Rock,” and CBS's "CSI Miami,” as well as the movies Steam, Delivering the Goods, Allegiance, and Hated.

The British-American actress, who is a graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, played Priya in A.R. Rahman’s / Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bombay Dreams; her Off-Broadway debut in Ayub Khan-Din’s Rafta Rafta at the New Group, was another theatrical success.

She currently resides in New York City, with her husband, Indian-American actor Deep Katdare. The couple is expecting their first baby, a girl, at the end of September.