All Entries in the "PRENATAL CARE" Category
Your Diet In Early Pregnancy Could Influence Health, Sex Of Child
A recent study examined the effect that certain diets had on pregnant mice and saw that the sex of the offspring could be influenced through the diet of the pregnant mice.
This study is likely to explain to us, how diet of the mother around the time of conception can and does affect human babies.
It was [...]
Pregnancy Foods – What Do You Crave And What Is Safe For You?
Pregnancy food cravings are a commonly experienced symptom of pregnancy.
While some women crave salt, others long for sweets; yet others salivate at the sight or smell of pickles!
If Halle Berry famously craved pickles and foot massages during her pregnancy and supermodel Heidi Klum wanted ice-cream, then Angelina [...]
A New Study Will Find Out What Is Safe To Take During Pregnancy
A new study by the Boston University’s School of Medicine could give more precise and factual information to pregnant women about what is safe for them to take and what is not.
Many women generally think that over the counter is OK to take during pregnancy and that prescription medication is not.
However, even something as commonly [...]
Want Your Baby Not To Have Allergies? Eat More Veggies
We are getting ever increasing information about how a mother’s behavior during pregnancy affects the health, immunity and even intelligence quotient of a child.
And now apparently even allergic reactions of the baby can be determined by a mother’s diet during pregnancy.
According to a Japanese study, eating more fruits and vegetables when pregnant lowered the baby’s [...]
Drink Milk During Pregnancy To Decrease Baby’s Multiple Sclerosis Risk
According to a preliminary study, women who drink milk when pregnant are doing their unborn babies a favor.
This is because drinking milk when in the womb reduces a baby’s risk of developing Multiple sclerosis as an adult.
A study that was conducted over a period of 16 years found that this risk of multiple sclerosis declined [...]
Folic Acid Deficiency – What Can Happen?
One of the first things that a pregnant woman is advised to do is start on a folic acid supplement.
In fact it is recommend that if a woman is planning on getting pregnant, she should start taking a supplement even before conception, so that when the conception occurs there is no folic acid deficiency in [...]
MSG During Pregnancy
MSG, Monosodium Glutamate or Ajinomoto is supposed to be that taste, apart from the basic ones that is known as Umami or the savory taste.
It adds an indefinable element to the food that elevates that taste and helps you taste the flavors better. While it has no taste of its own, it [...]
Fun Ways To Include More Fresh Fruit In Your Diet
It is well documented that including more fresh fruit in your diet[Healthy Balanced Diet] is important during pregnancy, for several reasons.
For one fresh fruit contains a lot of the essential nutrients that a pregnant woman and her unborn baby need, and also because many fruits can help one stay regular to [...]
Get Your Calcium Even If You Have Lactose Intolerance
Pregnancy is a time when your calcium intake is of particular importance and because of their protein and calcium rich nature, milk and other dairy products become particularly important at this time.
In some women it can happen that lactose intolerance may actually happen during pregnancy but this is rare.
However women who [...]
Why You Need Prenatal Vitamin D?
Before your baby was born, he began growing his primary, or baby, teeth. This happened during the second trimester of your pregnancy.
That means when your baby is born, if your prenatal diet did not include adequate amounts of Vitamin D, your newborn is at higher risk of having tooth decay by [...]
