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Pregnancy Diet
It is important that during this period, so you eat healthy and balanced. Need to nourish healthy way, as your body and body as well sue you, do not forget that you feed your baby too.
The diet for pregnant women, must be balanced, must be present, daily four basic food groups, such as milk, fruits and vegetables, and all kinds of meat. If you eat correctly and in your daily diet, these foods are present, will not need later, vitamin supplements, because you’ll get from the diet.
It is important that you present, which reached over, your pregnancy, avoid foods in your diet, such as flour and its derivatives, oil and sugar. It is not advisable to spend a long time without eating. In your daily routine, must be present five meals: Breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack, a snack and dinner. Read the rest of this entry »
Food Guide for Pregnant Women
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..
High Risk Factors of Pregnancy
A high-risk pregnancy is one in which the risk of illness or death before or after delivery is higher than usual, both mother and baby.
To identify high-risk pregnancy, the pregnant women assessed to determine if you have conditions or characteristics that expose her or the fetus at the possibility of becoming ill or dying during pregnancy (risk factors).
A risk factor is assigned a score that corresponds to the degree of risk. The fact identify a high risk pregnancy ensures that the woman who needs medical attention actually receive it.
A woman with a high-risk pregnancy can be treated in a center for perinatal care, perinatal is a term that refers to events that occur immediately before, during or after delivery.
Generally, these sites have an obstetric service and a neonatal intensive care unit to provide the highest degree of care for both pregnant women and the fetus and newborn. The doctor may send a pregnant woman to a perinatal care center before delivery because early care reduces the likelihood that the baby sick or die.
These centers also welcome to any woman pregnant this unexpected problems during delivery. The most common cause of admission to these centers is the risk of preterm delivery (before 37 weeks), which is often associated with premature rupture of membranes, ie they break before the fetus is ready to be born.