Mineral substances
Iron – plays great role in blood development process.
Sources of iron: salads, spinach, prunes, apples, grapefruit, lemon, buckwheat or oat cereals, rye bread, meat, animals liver, egg yolk.
Iodine – is necessary for thyroid gland formation.
When it is not enough iodine, fetus thyroid gland development takes defective way.
The sources of iodine: sea fish, sea food and algae, meat, eggs, milk, beet, carrots, salads, potatoes, cabbage, cucumbers, apples, grapes, plums.
Potassium – essential for normal cardiovascular system action, and metabolic processes.
Sources: apples, plums, apricots, peaches, gooseberries (eat berry), blueberry, dried apricots, raisins and oat cereals.
Potassium is a component of bone tissue, it takes care of blood coagulation, and normalizes the nerve-muscle system activity.
Sources of potassium: milk and dairy foodstuff, eggs yolk and rye bread.
Magnesium – activates the ferments. Not enough quantity of magnesium disturbs the nerve system and muscle action.
Sources: bread made of rough grinding flour, buckwheat and oat cereals, kidney beans, peas.
Sodium – regulates body water exchange. Sodium lowers the nerve system irritability and pain sensation.
Source: common salt.
Phosphor – takes part in bones development. Phosphor is a ferment component, so called cells energy storage.
Source: fish and seafood, cheese, cottage cheese, milk, nuts, bread, kidney beans, peas, oat and buckwheat cereals.
Liquids: pregnant woman have to take 2.0 – 2.5 liter of liquid per day. The half of this amount is in daily foodstuff, and consequently 1.0 – 1.2 liters of liquids from additional stuff. If facing edema during last weeks of pregnancy, you can reduce liquid usage up to 3-4 cups per day (0.7 – 0.8 liter).
We advise you to use more juice, stewed fruit drinks, kissel (a sweet drink resembling thin jelly) and spring water. You can use also tea or coffee in reasonable amounts and of course not very strong. It is forbidden to use any alcohol during pregnancy, even light beer or wine.
First quarter
At the first quarter of pregnancy there are active body rearrangement going on, in other words the body tunes to new condition. This period for all attention have to be on the baby, your caprice and desire will go at the second plan. Eat low calorie food; use much fruits, juice, stewed drinks from dried fruits and rosehip decoction. You can also fast, it is not forbidden; just try to hear what your body wants. Ask your healthcare professional about appropriate diet and multivitamins. We consider the folic acid as the main vitamin for the first quarter of pregnancy.
Second quarter
The food calorie is a little bit higher than in the first quarter. Pregnant woman should be in shape at the birth time. In parallel with food changing there are special exercises to increase physical activity. You need energy and power; visit pool, try to be more times at open air and so on. We advise to eat meat and fish at the first part of the day (breakfast, lunch, mid day snack). For the dinner prepare some cottage cheese pancake, curd-vegetables dishes (baked pudding) or stewed vegetables. Better to avoid fried meat (possible heartburn). Use minimum amount of canned food, smoked food, marinades, spicy, fatty food and sausages.
Third quarter
Beginning from third quarter we recommend to reduce the calories of food, basically at the expense of floury and pastry foodstuff, less use fat meat, fat cheese and sour cream. It is more important when you over carry (overdue) the baby.
It is desirable to loose a little bit weight before childbirth. This will increase muscles elasticity (flexibility).
Instead of a fatty tissue, muscles make the birth.
It is possible to judge a correct set of foodstuff based on the general condition (good feeling, well being), basic analysis (blood test, urine test, arterial pressure), and by the weight gain of pregnant woman.
But the weight is not main indicator of the normal pregnancy duration; more important is your self wellbeing. It is important to be conscious that total weight of mother consists of few components, which are applied to each person. Nevertheless try to not overload your body by overeating!
