It is very common, healthy and natural that during pregnancy the body of the mom earns some inevitable kilogram of more due to changes in the agency and the fact that diets are modified during fetal development.
This is not for nothing new, and it is not surprising that the weight of a future mom raise more than determined strictly by the pregnancy. Otherwise occurs with parents, who are surprising that the weight increase during the pregnancy of his companion, something that is not necessarily should happen that way.
This is a conclusion carried out by the company Onepoll in the United Kingdom, where it was found that parents increase an average of 6.35 kilograms during pregnancy from their partners.
The reasons for this are several. A 20 percent said that this was due to their meals were more blunt; a 25 percent said that growth to make you feel good for their partners by the weight cattle; the 41 per cent said they had more snacks in the house; and the remaining 42 per cent said they spent more time eating outside the home to spend more time together before birth.
Unfortunately, the truth is that only a third of the 5,000 respondents joined their partners in a diet post-pregnancy. Read the rest of this entry »

A pregnant woman with poor nutrition can suffer several problems during pregnancy, all reversible in your body. However, in the body in training that has in its interior, the same may have no turning back, and the consequences of this condition to the child in his entire life.

One of the nutrients that may not miss during pregnancy is the vitamin C, which with the absence of which can seriously damage to the development of the brain of the fetus as concludes in an investigation by Kens Lykkesfeldt at the University of Copenhagen, which is published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Experimenting with animals, Lykkesfeldt and his team noted the impact that deficiencies in vitamin C during pregnancy had on the fetuses, concluding that it can have a very serious about his mental development, which, translated to humans, implies serious difficulties in learning. Read the rest of this entry »

The importance of good nutrition during pregnancy is nothing new. Currently the pregnancies tend to be more planned, and the possibility of calculate when you get pregnant, also makes it possible that you can go preparing your food.

A good nutritional plan is extremely important, specialists recommend starting with a good food even before conceive. For this reason is also a good idea to visit to a specialist to help us to prepare our body to live a stage as special as is the pregnancy.

A healthy diet for pregnant women includes proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals. The Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) recommends that pregnant women increase the calorie consumption only between 100 and 300 a day. A small snack as a sandwich can be everything you need.

A well-balanced diet in pregnant women helps increase the folic acid and iron, as well as other nutrients. Read the rest of this entry »