The woman's diet in the maternity

The diet characteristic of the pregnancy and the nursing, you should be very equilibrated and to be characterized by a correct control of calories. The investigations, they have demonstrated that they can be necessary vitamins and supplementary minerals; especially folic acid, calcium and iron; due to the difficulty of ingesting the sufficient quantity of these nutrients by means of the foods.

Carefulness to these foods that should not be ingested:

- The alcohol: since nobody knows with surety if a sure level of alcohol consumption exists during the pregnancy, you are wise to recommend to the pregnant one the total abstinence of alcoholic drinks.

- The salt: as you are not demonstrated that the intake of sodium generates toxemia (metabolic alteration that produce the increase of the pressure), your total restriction is not recommended except that the present pregnant edemas in legs or hypertension.

- The caffeine: you are a stimulant drug that can cross the placenta. In women that consumed more than 8 cups of coffee a day, a bigger frequency of aborts was observed. The drinks that contain caffeine and they should be limited they are: coffee, tea, drunk queue, cocoa and chocolate.

During the nursing, they should never be capped in excess the calories to achieve the decrease of quick weight. The diet and the nutritional maternal state, you should even be better than during the pregnancy, since it influences in the quantity and quality of the breast milk.

They should be included then in the diet, 2 cups of milk more 100 g of a cheese meager semiduro, 3 citric fruits to cover the vitamin C requirement, and raw vegetables to cover the folic acid necessities.

What should be avoided is the caffeine and the alcohol, because I eat we already mention, an excess of caffeine can tornar to the irritable and sleepless baby. The alcohol appears in the milk in similar concentrations to those reached in maternal blood. The fritters, fat foods and packaged foods should also be excluded.

Here we propose you a plan account book type for this stage:

Breakfast: 1 cup of milk or yogurt descremado, 2 slices of wheat bread with meager cheese and 1 glass of juice of fruits.

Lunch: 1 flesh (200 g) portion, vegetable (1/2 plate). Rice or vegetables (1/2 plate), 1 bread, oleum (1 soup spoonful) and 1 fruit.

Snack: milk or yogurt descremado, 1 cup of cereals in flakes and 1 fruit.

You have dinner: pastas with tomato sauce, 1 small portion of flesh and 1 fruit.