Eating in pregnancy is considered extremely
important because it directly affects the development of baby and your own
health.
Eating
apple every day is good for pregnant women.
Which foods should you eat or not eat?
Which is the best food for babies and do not make mother become obesity? That
is the information that you need to know as below.
Cereals for breakfast
A bowl of cereal for soft and perfect
breakfast contains enough essential nutrition required for your need. Many
cereals supplement vitamins and minerals such as folic acid, iron, vitamin B,
and so on; so they are wonderful foods to add more nutrition for your children.
To keep blood sugar stably and avoid loss
of energy, eat cereals which consist of a very low sugar and high fiber such as
bran flakes, oat cereal.
Red meat
Many pregnant women are easy to have an
anemia by iron deficiency which makes women always feel tired and sluggish.
Therefore, red cells in meat increase blood volume in pregnancy.
The
red cells in meat increase blood volume in pregnancy
Instead of taking iron supplements, the
best way is that you add directly iron from natural foods because iron medicine
easy to cause constipation in pregnant women. Red meat is the best source of natural
iron.
Pregnant women who have vegetarian diet and
complement iron from green vegetables, beans, dried fruit; although iron in
vegetables is not absorbed so easily as that in meat, it usually has more
vitamin C, which improves absorptivity.
Vegetables
Vegetables are foods that pregnant women
are not allowed to forget. Along with taking folic acid by tablets, you also
need more natural folate to prevent complications for baby such as spina
bifida.
Green leafy vegetables that pregnant women
should supplement include broccoli, cauliflower, kale, turnips and other
vegetables.
Adding folic acid is necessary but should
also ensure that you do not receive in excess of nutrients. Therefore, the
important thing is you need to balance your diet.
Fish oil
Fish oil (found in sardines, herring,
mackerel, salmon ...) is an important food that pregnant women need to
supplement during pregnancy. It is rich in essential fats that benefit for
formatting baby’s brain, developing eyes’ nervous system, and is very high in nutrients
for the mother.
If you are suffering from dry skin, poor
memory, impaired concentration, these essential fats in fish oils may help you
a lot. It also helps promote the growth of the fetus and relieve uterine
contractions when laboring.
You can eat 2 meal of fish a week and
remember to eat just enough, because marine fish often are integrated toxins
from environment, even including mercury; that can affect unborn baby if you
eat too much.
Water
Everyone knows how water is necessary for
human health. Drinking enough water during pregnancy will help you have the
necessary amount of amniotic fluid, reduce the risk of urinary tract
infections; avoid constipation and the body always keep water.
But more important, many studies show that
drinking plenty of water can prevent early uterine spasms when bearing.
Dehydration and hot weather will cause hormone stimulating contractions.
You should drink 2 to 2.5 liters of water
per day - drink with small sips, not drink a big glass of water at the same
time that putting pressure on your kidneys.
Drinking
enough water during pregnancy will help you have enough amniotic fluid required.
Apple
According to Asthma center in the UK,
eating an apple a day during pregnancy may reduce risk of suffering from asthma
for baby. Apples are rich in vitamins C and E which protect lungs naturally,
and help reduce asthma and allergies.
Many mothers say that eating apples make
their morning sickness be reduced.
Banana
All fruits are good for pregnant women,
they are rich in fiber, folate, vitamin C to boost immunity, and beta carotene
is essential for development of skin and eye.
Banana is even more special, it contains tryptophan promoting sleep,
potassium helping retain water and preventing women from getting cramps.
Nutrition in bananas also provides you
lasting energy, less illness and fatigue.
Banana
contains tryptophan promoting sleep, potassium helping retain water and
preventing women from getting cramps.
Milk
Calcium is essential for growth of baby’s
bone and milk is the best source of calcium, which is absorbed more easily than
calcium from plants.
Milk also contains vitamin B helping
release energy from food.
Nuts
If you believe that nuts should not be put
into pregnant women's diet, think again. In case that your family has history
of asthma, you should abstain from nuts and seeds. Nuts contain much protein,
essential fats which are necessary for the development of children.
Especially, nuts and almonds are rich in
calcium; so if hardly get in milk, you can try them.
