Pregnancy Eating Plan : Healthy Foods for Healthy Baby

Pregnancy is one happiest moment in our life. At that time, we have our baby grow in our womb. Not only physical closeness, pregnancy is also giving us emotional closeness with our baby. It is our task to take care the baby since he or she is in our womb. One major way to take care of our baby is by eating healthy and nutritious food. Most pregnant women love to eat any food they are desired including the spicy and unhealthy food. To get a healthy baby and good condition when we are delivering our baby, we must have pregnancy eating plan. On the eating plan, we can organize what food we should consume and what food we have to leave during our pregnancy. During the pregnancy, we will gain our weight, and we should not think that with more weight we would get healthier baby. One key we should have in our mind is “eating food we need not food we want”.

On our pregnancy eating plan, we must make a list of what food we must consume. To get healthy baby and good condition, we should add more vitamins and minerals to our body. We can get the vitamins and minerals from fruit and vegetable. However, if we want to consume supplement, we can choose one that safe for our pregnancy. Foods like fish, meat, vegetables, egg yolk are beneficial for the body because it will grow that blood cell number in mother and baby’s body. Food with high calcium is completely needed because mother will transfer half of the calcium to the baby. The calcium is needed by the baby to build their strong teeth and bone. The optimization of the calcium consumption can be done in the early three months. We can get the calcium from milk, cheese, and many other foods.

Strong foods like coffee, spicy food, alcohol are completely forbidden for us. We must remember that we are not eating for ourselves, but also for our baby. We cannot imagine if our baby must feel the toxic in the alcohol or the bad negative of caffeine. Since each mother has different health condition and taste on food, then it will be better to make pregnancy eating plan with the doctor. With the different health condition, we need different eating plan. Even though the healthy food seems to be very safe, but women with specific disease will need a dosage on consuming specific foods.