Diet during pregnancy directly affects
mother’s health and baby’s development.
Rights
and wrongs about diet during pregnancy
However how to set a balanced diet and full
of nutrients but not too much is not well known. During pregnancy, you
definitely hear lots of advices about what and how to eat. So what are the
correct advices? Refer to these follow suggestions.
In pregnancy, if mothers eat more eggs, will their babies
be allergic to eggs?
No.
Doctors said the cause that most of the
baby is allergic to egg is protein in egg-containing foods converting into
amino acid after entering the body. These amino acids will raise histamine
levels. Then it creates allergic phenomena. This is almost unrelated to the mothers
eating eggs during pregnancy. In addition, research also indicates the cause of
children’s allergies with food is more concerned with genetic factors. Genetic
factors are available in mother’s body and not related to what mother eats
unfamiliar foods.
Can pregnant women drink carbonated beverages such as cola
or coffee?
Yes.
In general, people usually worry about
coffee and carbonated drinks because of caffeine in them. For this problem,
researchers have shown that caffeine through the placenta can cause negative
effects on fetus; the new-born baby is easily anxious and crying. But this only
happens when the mother uses too many of these beverages.
Furthermore, too high level of caffeine can
also promote the mother's kidneys to excrete catecholamine which increases
vasoconstriction leading to detriment for blood circulation in uterus and
placenta, and lack of oxygen to baby. So, mothers should specially pay
attention to this issue. Note that beside much high levels of caffeine that may
increase the risk of miscarriage, the majority of carbonated drinks contain
large sugar content which can cause to gain weight too much in pregnant women
and lead to many diseases such as diabetes or preeclampsia.
Can women eat hot pot while pregnancy?
Yes.
For baby, the mother’s body is in function
of carefully selecting and choosing strange foods. Only when mothers eat too many
spicy foods, if not, it is difficult to affect the fetus. But spicy foods in
hot pot may irritate the gastric peristalsis resulting to abdominal pain and
uterine contractions which cause premature. Therefore, pregnant women should
eat moderately spicy foods to ensure safety for your babies.
Pregnant
women should eat moderately spicy foods to ensure safety for babies.
Does mothers’ eating much papaya make babies have yellow
skin?
No.
Because beta carotene in papaya is pretty
plentiful, whether pregnant women or children eating it too much get jaundice.
But this is not related to physiological jaundice in newborns. The reason of
physiological jaundice in babies is accumulation of bilirubin in body. When
erythrocyte in blood is aged, bilirubin produces some waste. When the amount of
waste is too much or there is no way to throw them out, waste will accumulate
in the body causing jaundice.
Eat raw or cold foods in pregnancy, and baby’s trachea is
not going well, is it?
No.
Baby's trachea is good or not that is
completely unrelated to mother's diet during pregnancy. Moreover, cold and raw
foods do not directly reduce the womb’s temperature affecting the fetus.
However, eating more raw and cold foods
without processing in high temperature makes mothers be easily infected and
suffer to abdominal pain. In serious cases, that may indirectly affect the
uterus, which leads to premature birth.
Diet
during pregnancy should be selected.
Does eating vinegar lead to miscarriage or birth defects?
No.
It is believed that mothers eat vinegar
during pregnancy will change the physical, increase the risk of miscarriage or
birth defects. Because the ability of body’s adjustment for exotic foods is
pretty high, it’s not simple to make body be completely acidified or alkalized.
So absolutely there is no basis to suggest that eating vinegar can cause
miscarriage or birth defects.
Do smoking and drinking alcohol during pregnancy make
babies be deformed?
Yes.
The fact has proven that smoking can impact
negatively to the development of the fetus. Especially, cigarette smoke
contains many substances that cause birth defects such as nicotine, lead. If
you smoke during pregnancy, the rate of cleft palate will be higher. Therefore,
women need to quit smoking completely during pregnancy. In addition, when
pregnant women drink, lots of neurotransmitters are also affected by alcohol,
particularly the development of the baby’s brain. So say no to alcohol and
tobacco when you decide to have pregnancy.
