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• Put less salt in your food. Exclude all types of smoked meet products, tinned products, hot, fatty and sour-fermented meals, as well as chocolates, peanuts, and tropical fruits.
• Do not refuse eating meat (but not at night), and especially don’t refuse fish. It provides your body with iodine and polyunsaturated fatty acids that stabilizes (normalizes) the cardiovascular system operation.
• Do not limit yourself; eat as much as you want, but no macaronis with mayonnaise, candies, cakes, caloric porridges, especially buckwheat and oat porridges, as well as chops and the ragout. Vegetable salads are very nourishing, appetizing and low-calorie but at the same time they are rich with cellulose with stimulates the intestines operation.
• As a preventive measure against constipation use the following products: curdled milk, fermented baked milk, the kefir, steamed out and dried fruits, and also a fig and raw carrots salad with a grated apple dressed with the spoon of sour cream.
• Drink no more than 1.5-2 liters of the liquids during the day (including soup, juice, milk), and in case of hypostases propensity– 1 to 1.2 liters. Check once a week how much you drink – how much you should reduce. The difference in average will be 200-300 ml considering the losses at sweating, breath and losses via digestion system.
• To prevent the heartburn, eat more often (5-6 times a day) in small portions. It is very helpful to use products with neutralizing properties – so-called food antacid (anti acid): cream, sour cream, cottage cheese, soft-boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, and also fish and chicken, a dried white bread (the fresh bread and soft bread activates the heartburn). Boil the vegetables, and grate them in case if you have the persistent heartburn, make them well grated. Apples and other fruits are better to bake.
The growing uterus (womb) props up the stomach, and the progesterone (pregnancy hormone) reduces the decreases the tonus of flat muscles including the gullet sphincter, that forcing you to suffer from heartburn. One more very unpleasant problem that common for the second half of pregnancy is gestosis.
Doctor used to explain this by endocrinal disorders, obesity and chronic diseases; for instance pyelonephritis and hypertonic. Nowadays doctors came up with a new version of gestosis origin (described with high blood pressure, kidney problems, existence of protein in urine, and edema) – it is wrong nutrition and lack of vitamins.
The baby grows quite fast with growing requirements, and he/she make up them at the expense of his (her) mother body – and here is the origin of the problems.
No matter how you feel, it is time to do some radical corrections.
• Put less salt in your food. Exclude all types of smoked meet products, tinned products, hot, fatty and sour-fermented meals, as well as chocolates, peanuts, and tropical fruits.
• Do not refuse eating meat (but not at night), and especially don’t refuse fish. It provides your body with iodine and polyunsaturated fatty acids that stabilizes (normalizes) the cardiovascular system operation.
• Do not limit yourself; eat as much as you want, but no macaronis with mayonnaise, candies, cakes, caloric porridges, especially buckwheat and oat porridges, as well as chops and the ragout. Vegetable salads are very nourishing, appetizing and low-calorie but at the same time they are rich with cellulose with stimulates the intestines operation.
• As a preventive measure against constipation use the following products: curdled milk, fermented baked milk, the kefir, steamed out and dried fruits, and also a fig and raw carrots salad with a grated apple dressed with the spoon of sour cream.
• Drink no more than 1.5-2 liters of the liquids during the day (including soup, juice, milk), and in case of hypostases propensity– 1 to 1.2 liters. Check once a week how much you drink – how much you should reduce. The difference in average will be 200-300 ml considering the losses at sweating, breath and losses via digestion system.
• To prevent the heartburn, eat more often (5-6 times a day) in small portions. It is very helpful to use products with neutralizing properties – so-called food antacid (anti acid): cream, sour cream, cottage cheese, soft-boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, and also fish and chicken, a dried white bread (the fresh bread and soft bread activates the heartburn). Boil the vegetables, and grate them in case if you have the persistent heartburn, make them well grated. Apples and other fruits are better to bake.
The early intoxication disappears during the 13th week of pregnancy. There is no vomiting in the mornings and disgusting feeling against of some food disappears as well. Your appetite recover, and such an one, and simultaneously you risk to gain extra weight. Do not eat up and follow the weight balance.
The baby also has important event over: embryogenesis has already finished. Here and on he/she needs to grow up and the interior organs need to develop. The baby needs more vitamins, but also placenta needs vitamins, and placenta at this moment replaces the lungs of baby, and plays key role for the baby development. Consequently vitamins lack is not a surprising event during the second three month of pregnancy.
It is time to check C vitamin content in your blood (normally it should be about 1.2 mg in 100mg of blood) and folic acid (it is 0.6 mg). According to the resent survey 40% of the pregnant in Moscow have insufficient quantity of the folic acid. Baby started blood creation and your body spend your ferrous reserves. So go and take a blood test to check the results and to know your hemoglobin level.
Radical limits aren’t necessary as you have everything still waiting
• Do not salt the food; turn down jerking, pickles, coffee. Do not over drink tea especially after meet; it absorbs ferrous components which is so much necessary for your baby day after day.
• Meat and fish (boiled or stewed) have to be your regular meal, and also eggs, cottage cheese and other dairy stuff.
• Snack should be fruits salad or vegetable salad dressed with greens. Drink apple juice with celery (celery is very popular in France and many pregnant woman uses it). The green parts of plants mostly consist of folic acid, the key vitamin for the pregnant woman (the origin of the name of folic acid comes from Latin, which means the leaf).
• For prophylactic purposes of your ferrous anemia try out beef liver, buckwheat cereal, some winter apples, and drink tomato juice.
• Limit sweet and flour stuff not to get overweight and to provoke development of a diabetes of pregnant women – its danger becomes especially real from the 21st week, when increases the emission of insulin by a pancreas.
You need to get ready for the new role as a mother initially to take some actions of proper nutrition procedures. Do not take any drop of alcohol or drugs without consulting the doctor and do not refuse any kind of food in case if you feel vomiting or toxics feeling; this is very common for the first two months of the pregnancy. It is important to eat for the first three months (during the early toxics feeling) the meal should not be too much hot and should be pleasurable. Eat often but gradually, be creative.
• You are addicted to sour and salted food? Great. It’s very necessary for you for the first three months. Pickles, sauerkraut, sour apple, piece of salted fish (red herring) increases your appetite.
• Try more fruits and vegetables but carefully. If the cabbage entices you do not make yourself get if. There is no necessity to take in gallons of carrot juice (vitamin A) which is not good for the baby.
• It is necessary to select the meet and fish; baby needs to get carbohydrates that exists in the animals proteins.
• Do not forget about fermented-milk products, crud and cheese, you and your baby need more calcium. This foodstuff will provide you with appropriate quantity of calcium if you do not tolerate whole milk (full cream milk).
• Do not use any smoked, rousted and preserved food; there are no any benefits.
• Drink fresh juice (better right after squeezing). There is no need to decrease the liquids intakes, use spring water, stewed fruit and fruit drink. Coffee harms the heart of your baby and arouses urination provoking dehydration, so don’t take coffee.
• If you drink enough water and juice you will not have problems with constipation. The foodstuff that very good for digestion system: it is the beet, prunes, a cup of milk before to sleep or a cup of water in the morning.
