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Eating right during pregnancy
Pregnant women should eat a balanced diet.
Making a baby is hard work for a woman's body.
1 to 3 month pregnancy diet chart
Eating right is one of the best things you can do to help your baby grow and develop normally.
Eating a balanced, healthy diet can help prevent:
- Too much weight gain
- Gestational diabetes
- The chance of needing a C-section
- Anemia and infections in the mother
- Poor healing
- An early birth of the baby
- A low birth-weight baby
The amount of healthy weight gain in pregnancy varies.
These are general guidelines:
- Normal total weight gain for a healthy woman is 25 to 35 pounds (11 to 16 kilograms).
- Overweight women should gain only 10 to 20 pounds (4 to 9 kilograms) during pregnancy.
- Underweight women should gain more (28 to 40 pounds or 13 to 18 kilograms) during pregnancy.
- Women with multiples (twins or more) should gain 37 to 54 pounds (16.5 to 24.5 kilograms) during pregnancy.
Ask your health care provider how much weight you should gain.
Eating for two does not mean eating twice as much food.
Pregnant women need about 300 extra calories a day.
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