Pregnancy

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Feeding in the pregnancy

During the pregnancy it is the most important to have a healthy and balanced feeding, since our son will feed on our organism, and also of each and everyone of the food that we take.

1 - Cereals and pastas; 2 - fruits; 3 - vegetables and vegetables; 4 -  milk and derivatives;
5 - dry vegetables and you swallow; 6 - meats, fish and eggs.

A moderate salt consumption to avoid retention of liquids and other complications as for example the high blood pressure. It is necessary to consume little fats. During the pregnancy the metabolic expense increases that's why the body needs a different feeding: there will be needed more proteins, iron and calcium; and vitamins like the acid fólico.

Diet and pregnancy:

It is important that during the pregnancy the feeding is by installments. This way they will resemble and digest correctly the nutrients. And the gastric, very frequent acidity will be avoided also during the pregnancy.

It is preferable to do several eaten a day in smaller quantities. For example:

Breakfast:
A fruit of station, an infusion with half a cup of skim milk, a spoonful of skimmed cheese, a spoonful of jam, 2 toasts of wholemeal bread
Collation:
A yogurt with cereals
Lunch:
A portion of roast beef, degreased, a portion of raw vegetables, an oil spoonful (preferably of olive), a station fruit or I postrecite
Collation:
A roll of cooked degreased ham and a feta of cheese of machine
Snack:
An infusion with half a cup of skim milk, 4 or 6 integral cookies smeared with skimmed cheese and jam
Dinner:
A fried chicken portion without skin or of roast fish, a portion of vegetables and vegetables cooked with a spoonful of oil, a fruit of station or a portion of gelatine

Not to the diets to slim during the pregnancy:

It is not necessary to take the infusions with sweetener, if it is not got accustomed. Since it is not advisable during the pregnancy to consume too much sweetener. The gelatine, desserts and jams it is not necessary either that they are dietetic. The key is not to eat everything dietetic one, if not to eat of everything in moderate form.

It is not necessary to diet during the pregnancy. A calories restriction can provoke under weight in the baby. Also the bodies cetónicos in the blood for the slimming during the pregnancy are dangerous for the baby. If the famous persons “whims“ present before themselves, not always it is necessary to control itself. It is possible to eat occasionally a chocolate, or an ice cream. If there is restricted completely the food ingestion that the mom likes, the most probable thing is that of a stuffing of this food that mentally was not allowed.

Constipation:

It is important also to include food with fibre during the pregnancy, since the constipation is very common. The constipation during the pregnancy takes place for the influence of the hormones. The principal causer is the progesterone, which prevents the contractions before time and accelerates the metabolism to assure nutrients and oxygen to the fetus. But that has a relaxing effect on the musculature, included that of the intestine. For it the movements peristálticos (those that the digestive tract realizes) are less energetic, the digestion slows down and the evacuation is more difficult.

During the last two trimesters, the womb occupies very much space, compressing the digestive tract, making difficult also the evacuation. In this epoch haemorrhoids usually appears. There are small extensive veins placed inside the rectum or along with the year, very painful. They are provoked by the compression of the womb and by the difficult evacuations. There exist medicines that only relieve the pain. That's why the best thing is the prevention.
It is a very important not automedicarse for the constipation, or for the haemorrhoids. It is always necessary to consult with the obstetra.

It is important that during the pregnancy 2,5 daily liters of water are drunk.
This will help to improve the problem of constipation.

Food during the pregnancy: the fibres

The nutritive fibre is a nutrient without energy, but irreplaceable value like regulator of the organism.
Two types of fibres exist:

The soluble fibres:

They absorb the water with big facility and slow down the intestinal transit. Affecting little to the volume and consistency of the dregs. In spite of it, they possess a very important metabolic effect. They are in the bare fruits, the vegetables, the oats and the barley.

The insoluble fibres:

They do not have so much aptitude to retain water, therefore there will increase the volume and consistency of the dregs, and also it favors the movement of the intestine. It meets in the vegetables and fruits skin, in the bran, in the wholemeal flour, and in the cereals like the wheat, the rice or the hundredth one. The fibre does not help to the constipation if the quantity of daily water does not increase.

Although it is true that the fibres are important to improve the constipation during the pregnancy, it is not necessary to abuse the same ones. The fibre makes the absorption of fundamental minerals difficult during the pregnancy, like the iron, the zinc, the calcium, or the phosphorus. So if the fibre ingestion increases, it is fundamental to increase also the ingestion of these minerals.

It is important that the mom consults with a nutricionista specializing in pregnancy. He will organize a diet balanced for this stage.

Meats:

The proteins that contain the meats are necessary for the development of the baby, the increase of the blood volume and the growth of the womb. Also the meats contribute iron and vitamins of the group B, and the defenses increase.

Advices at the time of eating meats: