Avoid these foods to prevent harming your developing baby:
Food consisting of raw fish, half-boiled eggs and undercooked meat or poultry
Salad vegetables and ulam that may not have been properly washed prior to serving
Food prepared outside the home, especially uncooked hawker food, like rojak buah
Foods that contain a lot of additives, such as colourings, [...]
If you are very sure you eat enough meat, dairy products, fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes during your pregnancy you’re probably getting the nutrition you need for your baby. But, there are two crucial nutrients that most pregnant women don’t get enough of from food alone. These are folic acid and iron. So, taking the [...]
Lots of things are said about soy milk. What we kow for sure is that it’s safe to drink for adults. Soy milk contains vitamin D, which you need during your pregnancy. But it is advisable to get your calcium needs from other sources.
This is the milk the mother gives in the first days after giving birth. The thick substance is very high in antibodies and proteins. It helps to get the meconium out of the baby’s system.
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The best way is to get the iron from your diet. Go for broccoli, spinach, kale, bok choy, tofu, kidney beans, eggs, whole grain bread and brown rice. Lean red meat is also rich in iron. Cooking with cast iron pots can, in fact, increase the iron by up to 50%. Increasing your vitamin C [...]
Amniotic fluid is an amazing product! It completely replaces itself every three hours, even after your water has broken. What mom drinks can help or hinder its production, but it is definitely not all about her hydration. The baby does urinate into the water, and skin cells from the baby are also shed into the [...]
Many women lose their taste for coffee in the first trimester, but you can safely indulge in your daily coffee. While studies have found that having more than three cups a day throughout pregnancy is associated with small reductions in birth weight, most experts believe that consuming a moderate amount of caffeine is no problem. [...]
