| As a responsible parent you know you are | | | | Calcium is one of the most important nutrients |
| responsible for the well-being of two lives - you | | | | during pregnancy. Why? This is because calcium |
| and your baby. The baby growing in your womb | | | | and vitamin D are required for the formation of |
| is dependent on you for nutrition and its ultimate | | | | the baby's teeth and the entire skeleton. If your |
| survival. Eating the right kind of pregnancy foods | | | | intake of calcium is not up to the mark, your |
| will ensure that your baby develops normally and | | | | baby will try to fulfil his calcium requirements |
| healthily. That does not really mean you splurge | | | | through you. This can lead to a calcium deficiency |
| and gorge on pastries, cakes and all the other | | | | in your body and cause problems like osteoporosis |
| junk food. You really just need to eat the right | | | | and dental problems later in life. Therefore, make |
| kind of foods, which can help your baby to have | | | | sure you take pregnancy foods like milk, yogurt, |
| a good start in life. | | | | and cheese. The doctors recommend at least five |
| There is a well-known saying that goes something | | | | servings of these types of foods every day. You |
| like "breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and | | | | can also take a calcium supplement after checking |
| dinner like a pauper". Nothing could be truer for | | | | it up with your doctor. |
| pregnant women. Most women would say that | | | | During the later months of the pregnancy, most |
| they could hardly eat anything in the morning due | | | | women avoid or reduce their water intake since it |
| to the morning sickness. Fair enough! Have a light | | | | makes them go to the bathroom often (primarily |
| breakfast if you want or have it in shifts. For | | | | because the growing uterus exerts a pressure on |
| example, you can have a fruit when you wake up | | | | the bladder most of the time). However, water is |
| and then after about an hour have something | | | | essential if you want to avoid problems like |
| substantial. Tea and coffee on an empty stomach | | | | haemorrhoids and constipation. The repeated trips |
| are not the right kind of pregnancy foods since | | | | to the bathroom will only help in expelling the |
| both of these are stimulants and they will be | | | | toxins from you and your baby's body. |
| absorbed by your baby as well. If you really need | | | | Therefore, water is an integral part of the |
| something like tea or coffee, you can have it | | | | pregnancy foods. |
| after breakfast. | | | | The right kind of pregnancy nutrition will not just |
| Missing breakfast or any other meal for that | | | | help your baby but also help you to avoid weight |
| matter is also not advisable, since that will mean | | | | gain and other problems later in life. Do not |
| that your baby will also miss a meal. This in turn | | | | choose foods by taste only, also choose them by |
| would make him deficient on nutrients and even | | | | the amount of nutrients they have. The more |
| make you feel sick. You do not need to fill | | | | nutritious these pregnancy foods are, the better it |
| yourself up on pregnancy foods but you definitely | | | | is for you and the baby! |
| need to eat! | | | | |