A Healthy Food Guide for Pregnant Women

Pregnant women should eat a balanced diet. Making a baby is difficult work for a woman’s body. Eating right is one of the best steps you can take to help your baby grow and develop normally. You won’t need to drastically alter your eating habits, however this article will explain some simple changes to create so that you and your baby get all the nutrients you need to remain healthy.

After all, the food you eat is your baby's main source of nutrition. Good choices about pregnancy nutrition can help you promote your baby's development and growth. Start with the basics in pregnancy nutrition. Being aware of what foods to eat during pregnancy can help you make the healthiest selections for you and your baby.

Lentils

Branch into beans for folate and protein, vitamin B6, and iron. Lentils would be the most intestine (and spouse) friendly legume and readily absorb a variety of flavors from other foods and seasonings.

Oatmeal

Here's good reason to feel your oats (and eat them often). They're filled with fiber, the B vitamins, and iron and a host of other minerals. Fill your breakfast bowl together, but don't stop there. You can add oats - and all sorts of their nutritional super powers - to pancakes, muffins, cakes, cookies, even meatloaf.

Orange Juice

You've probably heard a lot of buzz about folate and folic acid, and with good reason: It's a necessary nutrient to prevent certain birth defects early on in pregnancy as well as for ensuring a healthy pregnancy after that, so attempt to get about 600 micrograms a day. Like iron, pregnant women need to consume more potassium, due to their expanding blood volume. And as you already know, orange juice is an excellent source of vitamin C, which, along with fighting colds, helps your body better absorb iron and keeps both your and baby's teeth and bones healthy

Mangoes

Sweet revenge for just about any vegetable avoider, mangoes contain more vitamins A and C bite for delicious bite than a salad. This tropical favorite, also full of potassium, is especially versatile, a perfect complement to sweet and savory dishes. Blend it into smoothies or soups, chop it up in salsas or relishes, simply scoop and revel in.

Leafy Greens

These super foods are especially important for moms-to-be as well as their developing babies. That's because, in addition to all those antioxidants, leafy greens supply calcium, potassium, fiber and folate, plus another important nutrient we have not told you about yet: vitamin A. Due to its role in helping baby's eyesight develop and aiding in bone and skin growth, it's important for moms to nosh on vitamin A-filled foods too.

Spinach

Rich in folic acid, iron , vitamin A, and calcium, spinach now comes ready to eat in prewashed bags (free from sand). Eat it raw, in a salad (especially one with almonds and mandarin oranges), or as a wilted bed for fish or chicken, or layered in lasagna.