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.
