What to eat when you are expecting

Awareness is very important in helping you create a nurturing environment for your baby. You should try your pregnancy to become mindful of your environment and the effects it has on you and your baby. So become aware of what you eat. Sometimes expecting mothers become so much concerned about their weight that they stop taking nutritious diet.

The best way to watch the extra weight is to listen to your appetite. If you listen to your appetite, you will add weight at the right rate, which is a few pounds during the first trimester and a pound per week for your remainder of the pregnancy. It was thought in nineteenth century that woman should limit their food intake so that they can limit their weight gain. People used to think that small babies are easier to deliver than the larger ones. But this lead to the low birth weight of the babies along with susceptibility to infection and delayed neurological development.

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