Pregnancy and Baby Tips

So much have been said about the importance of antioxidants but what good can they specifically do for you and your unborn child? How can antioxidant-rich foods help during your pregnancy? And wouldn’t taking antioxidant supplements be harmful to your condition? To answer these questions, let us take a closer look at the role of [...]
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More than just giving your unborn baby the foundation she needs for proper bone development, getting the right amount of vitamin D during your pregnancy can actually help prevent her from being infected with respiratory synctial virus or RSV – a virus that can have life threatening complications in very young babies. So, what is [...]
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Do you know that you can actually save the baby in your womb from a lot of birth defects by adopting a healthier way of eating? According to a recent research, a healthy diet (such as the Mediterranean diet) can significantly reduce the risk of birth defects such as neural tube defects and orofacial clefts. [...]
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Eating a healthy diet during pregnancy and lactation is important for the wellbeing of you and your unborn child. But if you already have a good well balanced diet then you will only need to change a few things.
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Many vegetarian women are uncertain of their extra dietary requirements once they become pregnant. Pregnant vegetarians do need to carefully monitor their dietary intake to ensure they are consuming enough of the vital nutrients required for a healthy pregnancy.
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You’ve heard expressions like “you are what you eat” and “your body is a temple”. Well, during pregnancy, your body is a factory. Specifically, it’s making a new human being. It’s following the genetic data in the DNA – literally the blueprint plans from which to build a human – and using proteins and nutrients [...]
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