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Staying healthy while pregnant!

It's even more vitally important to maintain good health while you're pregnant. Not only do you need extra help to adapt to the changes and the extra strain on your own body, but you are growing a person who needs and deserves the very best nutrients to grow on.

Pregnancy can be the most wonderful and scary time in a woman's life.  The knowledge that you are creating a new life can be an empowering thing.  Especially if this is your first baby, it can also be a time of innumerable worries and fears.  The best way to combat this fear is to educate yourself on every aspect of pregnancy, birth, and parenting that you can.  That is one of the reasons this page was created.  To educate those who wish it on different aspects of pregnancy.  The most obvious place to start is with nutrition. 

 Most problems of pregnancy can be avoided by proper attention to nutrition.  Morning sickness and mood swings are caused by low blood sugar, leg cramps, backaches, hypertension, and severe labor pains can be attributed to lack of calcium.  Varicose veins and hemorrhoids can be a vitamin E deficiency, while anemia is usually caused by a lack of iron.  By following a few simple rules for eating you can prevent most of these problems.  Most midwives believe that pre-eclampsia or toxemia, one of the most serious complications of pregnancy is usually caused by severe malnutrition.   {see comments from an assistant professor at a cardiology institute affiliated with

Remember that during pregnancy your body creates the cells needed to form two extra pounds of uterine muscle, all the structures - muscles, nerves, bones, glands, skin, and organs - of your baby, several pounds of amniotic fluid, the placenta, and not to mention a 50% increase in your blood volume.  Your body will also replace the kidney and liver cells used to process the waste of two people.  It is not possible for you to do this effectively and optimally if you are not eating right.