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Minerals, micro and micro elements
Alongside with the vitamins minerals and multivitamins are critically important for the mother and her baby.
Magnesium takes part in the acting process of neural system, regulates carbohydrate and energy exchange, lowers irritability, helps the pregnancy to run normally and prevents the miscarriage.
Iodine prevents baby’s pathology of glands thyroid.
Selenium helps the iodine to act properly and normalizes the immunity system.
Ferrum takes part in the synthesis of hemoglobin, prevents anaemia development that every 4th pregnant one suffers.
Zinc and copper supports the formation of the skeleton.
Molybdenum helps the adequate process of glandular exchange during the pregnancy.
Manganese takes part in skeleton development, blood formation and helps to resist infections.
The first quarter
One of the important vitamins is folic acid. Most of the cases the pregnant woman are recommended to take extra portion of the folic acid as it has very important role in substance metabolic processes and it can prevent the diseases in the neural system of the fetus. It also supports hematopoiesis formation and embryogenesis, skin formation and development. The main sources of folic acid are grain stuff, roughly grinded flour and vegetable (parsley, spinach, lettuce, onion, cabbage, green beans). Fresh mushrooms, food yeast, curds, cheese, fish and meet.
The second quarter
Over here nausea stops and appetite becomes better. Most of the future mothers feel all the favor of their pregnancy. They try out what ever they can have. The reason is that the baby wants to eat. This is the time when the mothers gain extra weight and fights against it later on. So it is highly recommended to eat with small portions 6-7 times a day, and keep on taking vitamins and abundant water.
The third quarter
The dietitians suggest eating polyunsaturated fatty sour type Omega-3. At that time the baby’s brain develops and 60 % of its cells consist of liquid and fat and most of the time consists of fat polyunsaturated acid. This is the reason of having adequate quantity of this type of food for the mother and her baby in this particular period. Numerous researches prove the link between the baby’s intellect and the quantity of the fat acid. Sharp vision and healthy neural system of the mother also have common links with this type of food.
Sea fish and sea food contains fat acid (salmon, mackerel, herring, halibut, plaice and so on). It is recommended to eat 2-3 portions of fish either baked or boiled for a day.
As before calcium is strongly required. The reason is the formation of skeleton, neural, cardiovascular system of the fetus, development of normal homogeny coagulability, and teeth development. The examinations show that 250-300 mg of calcium flow trough the placenta to the fetus per day. The reserved calcium and ferrous during the third quarter of the pregnancy have very significant role for the first couple months after the birth, and later baby will have all necessary vitamins with breast feeding.
That is well known fact that the required quantity of vitamins and minerals doubles during the pregnancy and breast feeding. And that requirement is very hard to maintain even in the autumn and summer time when the fresh fruits and vegetables are widely available. For instance, the pregnant has to eat five lemons in order to provide the daily required quantity of vitamin C (70 mg) or drink fifteen glasses of apple juice, and for vitamin B1 (1.5mg) she has to eat 0.5 kg meat.
The research result shows that the 70-80 % of the pregnant women has dissatisfaction of required quantity of vitamins. That means most of them are at the high risk of having health problems not only themselves, but also for the baby. As the lack of the vitamins negatively affects on the fetus development and very often cause serious problems during the pregnancy and after giving birth. The research proves that the lack of the vitamins during the pregnancy arouses series of diseases after the birth and later in the future.
There are quite a few vitamin-mineral complexes that can help to avoid these kinds of problems. These vitamins have very vital role for appropriate development of the fetus and for the propitious course of the conception.
Vitamin A
Vitamin A (or retinol) is necessary for placenta and tissues. Meanwhile it takes part in the formation of ocular pigments, bones and teeth.
How much to take? It is recommended to take 2667 IU (international unit) per day.
Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) supports normal flow of calcium-phosphoresce circulation. That is very important particularly for the last quarter of the pregnancy time. The adequate quantity of vitamin D prevents rachitic. Besides that it helps to avoid of calcium sedimentation on the organism, it helps on the formation of the cartilage, and supports intensive work of muscles.
400 IU of vitamin D3 is required for a day in order to satisfy the need.
Vitamin E
What vitamin E need for? Vitamin E (or tocopherol) is a very strong antioxidant; it stimulates endocrinal system, and encourages energy effectiveness. It also helps of the normal development of the fetus. The lack of vitamin E may cause miscarriage in the early phase of conception.
10 mg of vitamin E is enough for a day.
Vitamin B1
This vitamin (thiamine) supports if the neural and cardiovascular system. It helps to stay off toxics, hypotension and loss of appetite.
1.5 mg of vitamin B1 is good to have for the whole day.
Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) has very broad part in formation of the skeleton, muscles, neural system. It takes part in substance exchange and is one of the important vitamins for the growth.
Normally it is 1.6 mg of vitamin B2 for the day.
Vitamin B6
What is the function of B6? Vitamin В6 (pyridoxine) regulates braking processes in nervous system, reducing irritability, displays of a toxicosis of first half of pregnancy. Besides that, pyridoxine provides correct development of nervous system of baby.
How much to take? For pregnant woman we recommend to take 2.2 mg of B6 vitamin daily.
Vitamin B9
Vitamin B9 (folic acid) takes part of hemetogenesis formation and plays vital role for the fetus growth. If there is not enough quantity if vitamin B9 the fetus may not develop properly, premature birth or miscarriage might happen. There are some health risks for the mother in the future. Her gastrointestinal process may have abnormality like as diarrhea and constipation.
For vitamin B9 the required quantity is 400 IU for a day.
Vitamin C
What is the purpose of vitamin C? Vitamin С (ascorbic acid) possess anti-oxidant action, it increases body resistance against infections and strengthen the blood vessels. The lack of ascorbic acid that observed now days for many pregnant women, stipulates low capability of patients against infections, and also low of ferrum % in the body, that could lead to anaemia. Vitamin C participates in ferrum metabolic processes in the body. Bleeding sickness is high when there is not enough quantity of vitamin C. Also premature birth or miscarriage is possible.
The required portion of vitamin C is 70 IU per day.
The richest foodstuffs that contain calcium are milk, cheese and yogurt. The digestion of this stuff is easy for humans. Also it is very good to use spinach, broccoli cabbage, apricots (fresh or dried), kidney beans, almonds, walnuts, sesame and halvah. There are certain fish that contains calcium: it is Easter navaga, freshwater fish, purplehead, all types of herring and oceanic pilchard.
Ferrum
From 22nd week it is very important to supply the body with enough quantity of ferrum, to keep blood formation in appropriate level. You don’t need to take additional medication if your foodstuff provides enough ferrum portion.
Ferrum sources for pregnant woman
Liver of animals contain plenty amount of ferrum, but you can’t take liver as much as you want, it will harm your baby. Include in your menu the following foodstuff: red meat, chicken or turkey and eggs. From vegetables use kidney beans, dark green vegetables, grain bread, oat flour, apples, dried fruits.
Cellulose for pregnant women
Last months the growing baby can involuntarily press a mum’s stomach, it explains some digestion problems. To reduce the heartburn, eat in the small portions, avoiding eating spicy and fat food or carbonated drinks and kissels (a sweet drink resembling thin jelly).
Cellulose will help to avoid constipations. It will help to support stable level of sugar in blood and fast to release of exchange products from the body.
Sources of cellulose for pregnant women
Grain bread and others grain products are the basic sources of cellulose. It is very useful to take bran, wheaten, rice, rye stuff.
Vegetables in a raw or boiled way are also rich with cellulose.
Very active stimulation provides the beet (it can be juice of beet, dishes from beet leafs and beet tuber). At any time of the year you can use dried fig, plums and apricots. Strawberry has a good laxative (cathartic) action.
Importance of an optimum nourishment of future mum is obvious. But, besides that the food should be tasty and to give pleasure, because there are so called «substances of pleasure» made in the body which passes to the baby through a placenta and baby also starts to feel the pleasure. Take into your consideration that what you eat, the baby receives too.
В9 Vitamin (folate or folic acid) for pregnant women
You just have a little idea that a new life has arisen in your body? It is time to change and to diversify your meal, use more products that contains the B9 vitamin (also vitamin B9 know as vitamin M). It lower the probability of backbone defects occurrence at the child, B9 takes cares of correct formation of its mentality and intelligence capabilities.
В9 vitamin is irreplaceable not only for pregnant women, but also for mum because it can make the pain-sensitivity less painful, and after giving birth B9 improves milk generation process and the quality of milk.
The sources of vitamin В9 for pregnant women
For sure dark-green vegetables with leaves contains B9 vitamin (an asparagus, spinach, various salads). Also avocados, carrots, the melon, apricots, pumpkin and the beet are rich with vitamin В9. The egg yolk and the beans serve as sources of folic acid too.
The following group includes: grain bread, bread from flour of the dark rye, and also special macaroni and noodles from a flour of very coarse grinding.
It is very important to enrich your daily food with these products up to 12th week of pregnancy. If you are disturbed by nausea and you can’t eat – take multivitamins and mineral additives for pregnant women or special В9 vitamin, it is approximately 400 mg daily.
B type vitamins for pregnant women
It is when the 8th week of pregnancy is over. During this period we are bothered quite often with nausea in the mornings, night spasms and cramps of sural muscles, and especially nervousness. In this case В6 vitamin (pyridoxine) can help. B6 is valuable for the baby because it promotes the development of the central nervous system.
The sources of В vitamin complex for pregnant women
It is strongly recommended to include grain bread and cabbage in the diet ratio. These products consist of not only folic acid, but also B6 vitamin (pyridoxine). Wheaten bran, ovary wheat, not fined rice, oats, string bean, buckwheat groats, and of course walnuts will fill up your diet with B class vitamins. Fish and especially a Siberian salmon and a haddock are very rich with B6.
If you do not have any chance to include such stuff in your daily menu consult with your doctor about how to take dry beer yeast (usually it is a teaspoon twice a day). Beer yeasts are very rich with B class vitamins and of course including В6 vitamin.
Magnesium and A vitamin
At 11th week of pregnancy, when bones of the kid grow more and more intensively, the special attention is got the magnesium (it serves as the important building material for a bone tissue). The height, weight and the size of the head of the newborn depends on how much magnesium mum took during this period of pregnancy.
Also magnesium is very important material for muscles development. It is well known that the uterus is a muscular body and there is a need to prepare the uterus before giving birth. At the late periods of pregnancy some experts are not recommending to pay so much attention to magnesium, believing that only small amount of it will help to easier the childbirth.
The Magnesium sources
The real pantry of magnesium is the water-melon. It is a pity that abundance of this gourd plantation is limited by the season. Fortunately, we have other food stuff that contains magnesium, and they are less depending on season. These are integral groats and whole-grain bread, a fig, almonds, seeds, dark green vegetables and bananas.
Foodstuff that contains vitamin A
The list of goods is not rich: cod-liver oil, liver of cow or bull, eggs (yolk), fresh whole milk, butter. Carrots, green and yellow vegetables, yellow fruits are rich with provitamin-A (carotene), and they are not dangerous to take much.
Vitamin D and Omega-3 complex
Pregnant woman feels better since second quarter of pregnancy and mostly nausea does not bother.
Baby almost took shapes of small human, since this you need to pay attention on vitamin D (calciferol). It is well know that vitamin D is very effective measure against rachitis. Sunbeams action generates vitamin D under the skin, and during winter time we recommend to take vitamin D medicine (10 mg daily)
Sources of vitamin D and Omega-3
The leader in this filed is fish, first of all it is pilchard (sardine), herring, salmon and tuna fish. Of course cod-liver oil also rich with vitamin D, but it belongs to food additive class, not foodstuff. We can find calciferol in eggs yolk, milk and dairy stuff.
Other valuable goods that exist in the fish are iodine and special fat complex Omega-3. So Omega-3 is invaluable, because it provides longevity. For future moms it prevents thrombus formation in the body, and Omega-3 is very required stuff for baby, because it is responsible for brain development and eyesight.
Calcium for bones
Approximately since 17th week the baby starts to move, and the activities become frequent day after day making bones to grow faster and be stronger. This means that pregnant woman need in addition to vitamin D some amount of calcium.
This important element is very helpful for teeth and bones protection. The foodstuff that rich with calcium lower the chances of high blood pressure; and now days hypertension is very common during pregnancy. So watch over your blood pressure, take measurements time after time to figure out changes.
