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Food During Pregnancy

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

During pregnancy it is common to feel a burning sensation, vomiting, anxiety … Many times these pains are inevitable, but others can be avoided by taking care of food. Eating a balanced diet for nine months will help to have better digestion and to avoid the discomfort of pregnancy. The most important thing in summer is plenty hydrated, drink plenty of water and take fruits like watermelon, cantaloupe, and cherries.

One of the essential precondition for maintaining a balanced diet during pregnancy is not eating too much of each food group, but eat a little of each one of them, because you need a balance of proteins, minerals and vitamins. It is important in the daily diet to include foods from the five groups (more…)

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Pre-eclampsia in Pregnant Women

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

The woman, during pregnancy, have changes in your entire body, from hair, teeth and nails, and most important, such as hormonal changes, endocrine and circulatory systems, to name a few.

Most pregnancies are normal development and without complications, but at the same place during adolescence, there may be problems that may endanger the life of the baby and young mother.

Among these complications is pre-eclampsia, which usually occurs after number twenty last week of pregnancy, caused by the immaturity of the reproductive organs (more…)

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Choosing a Gynecologist

Monday, July 5th, 2010

When looking for a gynecologist, you acknowledge that you are electing the person that will deal with your pregnancy closely and continue you step by step the progress of your baby. Pro it is essential to find someone you confidence, with whom you are quiet and all your can clarify doubts.

As always, there are tastes for everything. In this case, it is important not to haul the first encounter, you listen to recommendations, take your time … For some women the main thing is the speed dating, others want to answer all your questions and have all sorts of details … It is therefore important to clarify what your preferences and take your time. (more…)

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Surgery to Lose Weight Before Pregnancy

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

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New research found that weight loss surgeries like gastric bypass, if performed before pregnancy helps to prevent future complications such as high blood pressure.

Obese women are at greater risk of facing various complications during pregnancy, unlike those that have a good body weight during this period.

This research published in the British Medical Journal, found that those who underwent surgery to lose weight before pregnancy were at 75% less risk for complications during pregnancy.

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Care Your Weight Loss During Pregnancy

Monday, April 19th, 2010

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It is true that during pregnancy usually neglect to give us more taste and a little of our food and for obvious reasons, yes or yes we will gain weight. However, women who during pregnancy double their weight, they endanger their health over the next 21 years.

According to a new study by the University of Queensland in Australia, women during pregnancy gained too much weight, then earn an average of 22kilos in the next 21 years. While those watching their weight during pregnancy, earned about 10kilos during the coming 21 years.

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Weight Control in Pregnancy

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

weight control in pregnancyWeight control in pregnancy. Leading a healthy and balanced diet during pregnancy is critical to health care for the mother and ensure the correct gestation the fetus.

During pregnancy a woman should be fed adequately to meet the nutritional needs of the baby, but this does not mean eating for two.

Weight control in pregnancy
has to be rigorous, not a matter of eating too much of each food group to eat a balanced but a little of everything.

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Dairy Pregnancy

Monday, March 29th, 2010

dairy pregnancyDairy pregnancy. Dairy products are foods that pregnant women can not stop using their high content of protein and calcium, essential for fetal development.

The diet during pregnancy should contain nonfat milk and dairy products and vitamins daily.

The cheese milk is richer in protein and calcium, vitamins A and D, but as far as they have to avoid the more acids, which are the toughest varieties. The pregnant woman must eat low-fat spreadable white cheeses, queso fresco, mozzarella, port health cheese and other low calorie varieties.

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Vitamin D in Pregnancy

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

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Vitamin D is essential during pregnancy, the baby during the third trimester of pregnancy needs 30 grams of absorbed calcium and 200-250 mg / day because this is when it grows and bones develop.

This process is regulated by parathyroid hormone, vitamin D and calcitonin.

For the calcium fixed in bone is necessary for the body of the mother has enough vitamin D. this is how the body from cholesterol but that this process occurs is necessary sun exposure.

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Tummy flying, flying pregnant

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

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It is typically female fly with imagination. But in this note we will not talk “of being on the moon”, but for air travel. Sometimes it’s by necessity, sometimes go on a “Last Holiday” with no baby. Are there risks? What care should have?

Changes in the air
When any person boarding a flight, undergoes some changes in his general condition and symptoms such as nausea and / or vomiting, dizziness, stuffy ears, headache or tightness in the throat. Not everyone who happens to them, nor on every trip, nor at all stages of the tour. Sometimes it’s just taking off and landing, sometimes just an air shaft.

When a woman is pregnant often have feelings that were not common in various stages of gestation, without being as passage of any aircraft, so may be confusing, if you choose this mode of transportation, any nuisance described in the their own state.

It is believed that pregnant women are not more likely than others to have any of these conditions described earlier. Obstetricians and pediatricians say the pregnant woman, although discomfort can feel with some discomfort, no risk to fly on particular airlines reliable.

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