How to carry a healthy pregnancy
What can I eat and what not? Why so many vitamins? Do I have to feed for two? During these nine months, you will have to properly nourish yourself to have the necessary reserves so that your body facilitates the optimal development of the small creature that begins to grow inside of you.
Now more than ever, you become the only source of nutrition for your baby. Therefore, your diet has to be rich invitamins and minerals, especially iron and calcium,proteins and carbohydrates.The contribution of nutrients and their metabolism is of vital importance during pregnancy and also in breastfeeding, as it can affect the health and development of your baby.
The richest foods in proteins complete are meat, fish, poultry, eggs and dairy products. Carbohydrates such as oats, brown rice, starch, are necessary during this stage since they carry fiber, vitamins and minerals.
Iron and calcium
One of the periods of life in which a diet rich in calcium is necessary is precisely during pregnancy and lactation. Therefore, it is important that you ingest a double amount of this mineral because the cartilage of your babythey begin to form until they later become bones. Although many of us associate calcium with milk, it is also found in other foods such as green leafy vegetables, fish, nuts, etc.
You also have to take into account that your child is sucking your iron reserves and the deficiency of iron can cause anemia, so it is interesting to take a supplement.
The vitamin BA, known asfolic acid, from the beginning of pregnancy, promotes a proper development of the baby's central nervous system. For this reason, it is very important that you have good levels of folic acid especially at the time of getting pregnant.
Gestational diabetes
Some women have gestational diabetes when they have never been diagnosed with this disease and this is becausethe glucose level rises. The symptoms disappear after the birth. But to control diabetes, you will have to distribute carbohydrates throughout the day, reduce the intake of fats and control your cholesterol level.
The complications of this disease are usually controllable and avoidable and the key to prevent them is careful control of blood sugar levels as soon as the diagnosis is made.
To think...
-Try to drinkbetween one and two liters of water every day in the form of infusion or juice because in this period you need more liquids.
-You do not have to eat for two, you must nourish yourself well for your health and that of the baby. Thus,do not stuff yourself.The ideal would be that you fatten from 11 to 13 kilos.
-Better to eat little and often: make five meals a day, instead of two very abundant ones. Chew food well and as always sitting, without hurry.
-Allstimulating substancess like coffee, chocolate and cola drinks should be taken with moderation.
-Relay to lead a life too sedentary. It is important that you combine good eating habits with a series ofexercises indicated for pregnancy, without unnecessary efforts.
