Diet during pregnancy

Many mothers during pregnancy want to continue staying thin and not gain weight when they give birth to have the same body they had before conceiving, so many are engaged in dieting. However, this can have consequences and not be very healthy for either mother or baby.

Experts say it is not safe to diet during pregnancy, because it passed to the baby do the same hunger that you have. The usual recommendation is to earn between eleven and twelve kilos during pregnancy, and even women who are overweight should not try to lose weight in that state.

If you look to other species such as seals and whales grow much weight to feed their children. The eleven or twelve kilos you need to win not just for the baby, placenta, uterus and breasts enlarged, but is the amount of the baby needs to achieve optimal weight and that you earn enough fat to feed the child at birth.

The pregnant women should consume about 2,500 calories a day because they need just like babies. Furthermore the physiological changes also because the blood sugar between meals drops to very low levels, so many pregnant women are hungry and need to eat between meals. So if you get pregnant thinking that you lose weight, you'll be hungry all the time.