pregnancy diet for first time pregnancy?
Question by Jenny: pregnancy diet for first time pregnancy?
Please advise what to avoid and what to eat more during pregnancy.
Best answer:
Answer by Thwarted
a well balanced diet with lots of fruits and veggies and lean proteins are still good for you and your growing baby, foods to avoid is fish high in mercury http://www.americanpregnancy.org/pregnancyhealth/fishmercury.htm
too much caffeine, alcohol, you should heat up lunch meats, undercooked/ raw meats, and unpasteurized foods.
During the first trimester you do not need any extra calories, during your second and third you need to eat an extra 300 calories a day.
When I was pregnant with my second child I was determined to avoid getting preeclampsia again and followed the brewers diet for pregnant women. My first was 9lbs 7ozs 6 days early and my second was 6lbs 8ozs two days past the due date.
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During pregnancy you want to overall increase the amount of food you are eating since you are eating for two. Try to eat about every 2 hours as this helps keep your blood sugar consistent, helps prevents dips in blood sugar that can trigger nausea, and helps you to avoid over consuming food. When you eat every 2 hours you keep your digestive system in a regular pattern that will help you avoid constipation. This is especially important as you get further along in your pregnancy and your intestines are pushed off to the side resulting in larger meals often having more difficultly passing through so try to avoid large spaced out meals and eat small frequents ones instead. Increasing your intake of fruits and vegetables is always good. You particularly want to get more dark leafy greens that have higher levels of iron. Prenatal vitamins are an excellent way to supplement your diet. You want to watch out for foods that are high in sugar such as desserts and processed foods since they often are the culprit causing the baby to put on extra lbs towards the end. And as tempting as that ice cream may look try to avoid it and if you just can’t say no to it then eat it in moderation. Proteins are also important such as those in eggs and meats. Yogurts are useful in pregnancy. They provide an excellent source of protein and the probiotics in them help your body to retain good bacteria which helps you avoid yeast infections which can become an issue for some women during pregnancy. Oh, and drink lots and lots of water. Keep a bottle of water with you wherever you go and be conscious to drink as much as possible. As an extra note, work on your Kegels, which are pelvic floor exercises that work to strengthen the pelvic floor muscles. You can look for tips for variations of this exercise online but the basic idea is holding in like your trying to not pee. These exercises help prepare your body for labor and are super important in the postpartum period to try to restrengthen your pelvic floor so hopefully you can avoid the weakness of the muscles that causes women to sometimes pee when they laugh. Good luck with your baby and I hope that some of this information is useful to you.