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Whether you're sitting down for a meal or grabbing a snack from a vending machine, you have to think about how your choices will affect your baby.
Calcium is important for both you and your growing baby. Your baby needs it to grow strong, healthy bones, teeth, nerves, heart, and muscles and to develop normal heart rhythm and blood clotting.
Are these weird cravings for pickles and ice cream trying to tell you something important, or are they a force to be resisted?
The healthiest fats are unsaturated fats, which come mostly from vegetables, nuts, and other plant sources.
Now that you're pregnant and eating for two, you probably wonder a bit about your diet and whether you're getting the nutrients you need.
There are no formal rules for what makes an ordinary multivitamin different from a prenatal supplement. In general, most prenatal supplements contain more folic acid, iron, and calcium than you'll find in a standard adult multivitamin.
Carrying twins gives you permission to double the amount of extra calories you take in each day over what you usually eat. Instead of adding 300 calories to your diet, as doctors recommend with one baby, you can add 600 extra calories a day.
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Moms-to-be and nursing mothers should go easy on caffeine. You may be more sensitive to its effects, and you can pass the drug on to your baby through the placenta or through breast milk.
How do you satisfy your snack cravings without triggering a blood sugar rush and crash? Try embarking on an overall eating strategy aimed at keeping your blood sugar relatively steady throughout the day.
The reason you hear so much about folic acid and pregnancy is because this B vitamin protects against a group of serious birth defects.
When you're pregnant, your body makes extra blood for both you and your baby. Your body needs extra iron to make this blood and also to support your baby's rapid growth.
Seafood is the only significant source of mercury in our food, and some fish have levels of mercury so high that it may be harmful to a developing baby.
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