After discovering that you are pregnant, you might know what you can
expect to feel during the pregnancy stages. During the first trimester
pregnancy symptoms include a difference in your breasts, exhaustion,
and nausea. Within the second stage of pregnancy, your baby's body has
growth of hair all over to regulate body temperature after birth; baby
starts developing senses, feeling light and darkness and is able to
hear various sounds from the world outside. All the organs of your baby
at the third stage are developed, except the lungs, which continue to
develop until the end of this trimester.
To give your baby a healthy start to life, to care of your future
baby's growth, proper brain development, reduced risk of birth defects
and a strong immune system, to keep to a healthy pregnancy diet are the
major steps.
There is pregnancy nutrition guide designed to help you sift out the
facts from the old wives tales.
A vegetarian pregnancy diet is represented by whole grains packed with
nutrients, a citrus food or drink served with the meal cooked in
cast-iron, fortified soymilk, nuts, kale, kelp, dark leafy greens, a
rice and lentil loaf or a spinach and sesame salad as complete protein
combinations. Oranges, tomatoes, cantaloupe and strawberries are
favorite vitamin C rich foods. Fat can be got from good olive oil or
coconut oil.
There are some pregnancy foods which are best to avoid during pregnancy
because they may make you ill or could harm your baby. Among them there
are some cheeses; pate; eggs because of the risk of salmonella;
undercooked meat; some types of fish because the high levels of mercury
could damage the baby's nervous system.
The most spread so-called pregnancy vitamins are vitamin A which
deficiency causes blindness, birth defects, weakens bones; beta
carotene relies on the presence of fat to be effectively absorbed into
the body.
If you are overweight, you can just improve your state with a healthy
diet during pregnancy using more vitamins, proteins than fat and eating
small meals every few hours. There are many web sites providing
information as for healthy recipes, restaurants.
Healthy foods are the cornerstone of pregnancy nutrition including:
- three servings of protein a day (tofu, beans, chicken, fish
and meat) which provides materials for the placenta, the mother's and
baby's blood;
- four servings of milk, cheese, yogurt a day. Calcium meal
helps to preserve strength in the mother's and baby's bones.
There is the whole row of pregnancy diet recommendations including not
eating liver because of its high vitamin A content, having foods that
are good sources of vitamin C to help absorb the iron.
Pregnancy questions can be divided into thematic groups such as early
pregnancy questions, pregnancy calendar, labor and birth, pregnancy
complications, nutrition, fitness questions etc.
Weight gain pregnancy is crucial for your baby's health. 25-35 pounds
is safe weight gain during pregnancy for a woman of average weight;
however, any weight loss is not safe for the baby, either.
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