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Feb 29, 2012

The Right Diet For Pregnant Woman

I believe that all the people know that only when the pregnant women get the enough nutrition, the beby may be healthy in the future. If you are currently pregnant or if you are planning on becoming pregnant soon, it is crucial that you begin updating your diet as soon as possible. You will need to start a diet regimen that provides more of the essential nutrients for a healthy pregnancy with every meal eaten. A person's daily diet is quite often very unhealthy and lacking in nutritious foods. So, for a healthier pregnancy for you and your baby, it is important to give you, your body and your baby the essential vitamins and nutrients needed to stay healthy.
Pregnant women typically require 10% to 60% more nutrients on a daily basis than non-childbearing individuals. The caloric requirement of pregnant women is even higher after the third month of pregnancy.

It is estimated that pregnant women need more than eighty thousand extra calories during the entire pregnancy. So if you are on 2,000 calorie-a-day diet, you need to add an average of 300 calories to your daily caloric intake so your body is able to easily respond to the increased physiological demands of pregnancy.

Pregnancy isn't exactly an ordeal, but it can be incredibly taxing to women who do not have the right kind of nutrition during their pregnancy.

You don't have to go on a 'diet' in the strictest sense of the word. Unless you are morbidly obese, caloric restriction is almost always not recommended for people who are of normal weight.
If you are underweight, you have to increase your weight by as much as 18 kilograms. Ask your doctor what target weight would be healthy for you and your baby. Pregnant women can eat as much as they want - of the good stuff, that is. And by 'good stuff,' we mean items such as:

- Fresh fruits
- Steamed or stewed vegetables (properly cooked, please)
- Lean cuts of meat (chicken, beef, and pork)
- Fresh seafood (check with your doctor regarding the types of fish that are safe for pregnant women)
- Food with lots of fiber
- Low-fat, fortified dairy products

As you can see from this list, it really isn't that hard to eat healthily during pregnancy. And if you have learned to tame the fast food and junk food habit during your pregnancy, why not continue your new healthy eating habits even after you've given birth?

There are numerous health benefits to eating well every day. The biggest advantage is that you're likely to live longer than those who eat junk food all the time. This is medically proven, so why look elsewhere for your daily meals? If you don't cook frequently at home, now is a great time to start learning how to cook for yourself and your family.

There are countless books out there on healthy cooking and healthy eating. You might be surprised how easy cooking has become with the help of modern inventions such as the microwave and the electric grill. Simply put: if you want to be healthy during your pregnancy, you have to eat healthily, too. Give your body the right food and it will take care of you. 

Feb 26, 2012

The Smile Of Pregnant Women Is The Best Antenatal Training

Pregnant women cheerful mood can make cerebral cortex excited, blood pressure and pulse respiratory, digestive secretion of pregnant women all are in mutual smooth and coordination state, which is beneficial to the physical and mental health, improve the placenta pregnant for blood, promote stomach fetal health and development. Therefore, smile you give to your baby is also a kind of antenatal training


The former three months of pregnant, it is the key period for forming of the fetus' each organ, such as pregnant women long-term mood swings, it may cause fetal abnormalities. So, during pregnancy period, pregnant women should be every day happy, do not save your smile. Although fetus can't see expectant mother smiling expression, they can feel the mother's moods. Pregnant women mood is low, eat some nuts can rise to adjust mood, prevent depression, such as walnut, peanut. Nuts in the food not only contain protein and amino acids, but also contain vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B5, vitamin E, calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, etc. Therefore both for pregnant women, or the fetus, nuts are beneficial to the brain

Expectant fathers also can undertake antenatal training through smile

During women pregnant period, not only expectant mother always smile, expectant fathers will often smile, because expectant fathers' emotions often affects expectant mothers' mood. If Mom is happy, this kind of good state of mind will be passed to the fetus, let the fetus happy. Fetal receives the good effect, can in physiological and psychological aspects develop healthily.

Warm reminder: pregnant women should avoid by all means great anger, more do not make a mantra fight. During the first over one month's Pregnant, if she is severe stimulated by frightening, fear, grief and indignation, or other causes of mental strain, can cause miscarriage etc adverse reactions. In couples' harmony, family atmosphere's harmony, the circumstances of good mindset, the fertilized egg will "safely and comfortable" in the womb, baby will be grow up more healthily and intelligently.