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The research on diet and nutrition has shown considerable positive influence on a balanced diet during pregnancy.
Specifically, nutritional status and food habits of the mother are factors directly related to your health and your child. This is therefore a very appropriate time to review lifestyle.

A reasonable diet at this physiological stage of female life is the best help to prevent premature births and even linked to the development problems of the newborn such as the reduction in weight or height, lowered resistance to infections, etc..

Although you can not prevent certain hereditary problems (hemophilia, phenylketonuria, etc.), It is possible to change poor nutrition. It is known that states of malnutrition and / or deficiency can cause alterations in the course of pregnancy: preterm labor, fetal malformations, abortions, etc. All this has led to ensure that it is essential to proper nutrition to ensure normal during pregnancy.
The assessment of nutritional status must carry out the doctor who follows the course of pregnancy with the health professional nutritionist (dietitian – nutritionist).

Experts say as circumstances that may compromise maternal nutritional status: the economic situation of deprivation, third pregnancy in less than two years (maternal reserves are depleted and it is difficult for a woman’s body is not affected in some way: anemia, decalcifications , etc.) monitoring therapeutic diet prior to pregnancy, poor dietary habits, consumption of snuff, alcohol or other drugs, low weight in early pregnancy, associated diseases, twin pregnancies and teenage pregnancies.

The latter needs are higher than those of adult women to be even-age growth and established a kind of rivalry between mother and fetus to get essential nutrients for development.

In general, dietary recommendations during pregnancy are intended to achieve the following objectives:

* Cover the food needs of pregnant women themselves.
* To meet the nutritional requirements due to fetal growth.
* Prepare the mother’s body to better deal with childbirth.
* Ensure fat reserves for milk production during lactation future.

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