Due to the bacteria listeria, listeriosis results in fever, which can cause unexplained, according to the progress of the pregnancy, miscarriage or premature delivery. Listeria is resistant to temperatures between 4 and 56 ° C, thus it may appear in all the foods you eat without cooking first and that we keep in the refrigerator. A few simple hygiene measures can nevertheless reduce the risk of contamination:

* Avoid soft cheeses or raw milk, grated cheese bags, products purchased from the delicatessen, smoked fish, cold meats raw or cooked raw shellfish.
* Remove precaution cheese rinds.
* Make a habit in your kitchen to wash the work plans, refrigerator and kitchen utensils, wash your hands before eating and to separate raw foods from ready to eat them.
* Skip to accommodate the remains.
* Cook meat well.
* Wash fruits and vegetables.

Some of these recommendations apply equally to guard against toxoplasmosis. In early pregnancy, a blood test had to tell you if you’ve already been infected by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii and you are therefore already immunized against toxoplasmosis. If this is not the case, taking regular blood check that you are not infected. Toxoplasmosis may indeed have serious consequences for the fetus depending on the stage of pregnancy at which it occurs: risk of cardiac malformations, neurological and eye and in some cases an intrauterine death (spontaneous abortion). As the parasite is transmitted later, the lesions are less severe. The risk of congenital toxoplasmosis is highest when maternal infection occurs between the 10th and 24th week of pregnancy.

Again a few precautions are better than one:

* If you have a cat, avoid contact with droppings.
* Wear gloves when gardening.
* Wash fruits and vegetables before eating them.
* Eat only thoroughly cooked meat and avoid meat marinated and grilled.

• Folic acid is a vitamin that needs to drink daily. Deficiency leads to anemia, premature detachment of the placenta, infants with low birth weight and some malformations, mostly of the nervous system.
  Although present in many foods, which are subjected to heat during the cooking process makes it possible to destroy, so it is necessary to consume fresh fruits and vegetables without cooking, and, as ordered, take a multivitamin with this vitamin.
• If a pregnant woman has some degree of malnutrition may occur low birth weight, intrauterine growth retardation and fetal or neonatal death. In addition, it increases the risk of heart disease, hypertension and diabetes in adolescence and adulthood.

• The pregnant woman does not “eat for two.” You should eat the right amount and balanced, according to medical recommendations, because the excess weight gain may cause newborns with higher than normal weight, diabetes, hypertension and other complications. It should include fruits, vegetables, legumes, cereals and derivatives, proteins (meats, fish, eggs, beans) and dairy products, properly distributed throughout the day. Do not skip breakfast and evening meal should not be excessive.
• The calculation of the weight of each mother according to their individual needs. Weight gain depends on the nutritional status in early pregnancy. Generally, a mother with normal nutritional assessment should be increased 25 pounds, if undernourished, between 30 and 35, whereas if one is obese should gain 10 to 15 pounds.
• Must eat foods in limited smoked hams, coffee, tea and soft drinks instant or gassed. They should also be avoided, except prescription medications of traditional medicine, because they generally are not known to produce effects on the fetus and pregnancy.
• Smoking, drugs and alcohol are especially harmful to the health of mother and child. You also should avoid the consumption of prescription medications.