Nutrition and Diet Tips

Nutrition during pregnancy is one of the main factors we must consider must pay special attention to:

• 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.