Some Tips to Eating Healthy During Pregnancy

Womenscorner Desk
October 15, 2020

Don't forget breakfast : Try fortified ready-to-eat or cooked breakfast cereals with fruit. Fortified cereals have added nutrients, like calcium. If you're feeling sick, start with whole wheat toast. Eat more food later within the morning.

Eat foods with fiber : Choose a spread of vegetables and fruits, like carrots, cooked greens, bananas, and melon. Eat many beans and whole grains. Try rice or oatmeal.

Choose healthy snacks : Low-fat or fat-free yogurt with fruit. Whole grain crackers with fat-free or low-fat cheese

Take a prenatal vitamin with iron and vitamin Bc a day : Iron keeps your blood healthy. vitamin Bc helps prevent birth defects.

Eat up to 12 ounces every week (2 average meals) of fish or shellfish : A 3-ounce serving is about the dimensions of a deck of cards. Avoid fish and shellfish with high levels of mercury. Don't eat shark, swordfish, cavalla , or tilefish. If you eat tuna, choose canned light tuna. Albacore (white) tuna has more mercury. Common fish that are low in mercury include shrimp, salmon, and catfish.

Stay away from soft cheeses and luncheon meat : Some foods may have bacteria which will hurt your baby.

Don't eat: Soft cheeses like feta, Brie, and chevre. Uncooked or undercooked meats or fish (like sushi). Lunch meats and hot dogs unless they're heated until steaming hot

Limit caffeine and avoid alcohol : Drink decaf or tea. Drink water or seltzer rather than soda. Don't drink alcohol.