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A healthy pregnancy is attributed to a eating healthy while pregnant, lifestyle and exercises. The first trimester of your pregnancy could cause you to feel nauseated and lose appetite but you still need to eat right. What happens in the first trimester? The body has to be prepared to grow a baby. The folic acid is the most important nutrient that you should consume before you get pregnant. A variety of pregnancy diet and nutrition food items lets you get the required quantity of folic acid. This includes fortified cereals, meat and lentils. Your first trimester will last for  13 weeks  and this is when the body is having a lot of pregnancy hormones that is causing discomfort to you. What should be in your diet in the first trimester? The below are some of the essential food items that should form apart of your diet in the first trimester. Spinach – Spinach has high folic acid content and it helps in the fusing of the neural tube of the baby. This happens in th...

Gestational diabetes in  pregnant  women leads to a rise in her blood sugar levels. It gets diagnosed when one is pregnant at around  week 24  and  week 28 . This is the time when the hormones secreted by the placenta blocks the insulin. Insulin is produced by the pancreas and it controls how the body breaks down carbs and fats and helps to convert sugar in the form of energy. When the insulin is blocked, it does not allow the body to regulate the increase in blood sugar and this in turns leads to high levels of sugar. Unlike the type 1 and type 2 diabetes,  gestational diabetes  is not permanent. Once the woman delivers the baby, the blood sugar tends to become normal. However, care needs to be taken since those women who have gestational  diabetes  are at high risk of developing diabetes in the future. GD may not affect all women who are pregnant. Some women are at a higher risk of developing the condition. Women at high risk of dev...

Medication safety for pregnant women is as important as medication and it should not be overlooked. First we will try to understand the term medication safety in short. What Is Medication safety? Medication or medicines are prescribed by the doctors to treat diseases, manage conditions, and relieve symptoms in patents. Generally medication is safe when used as prescribed or as directed by the manufacturer, but no one can deny that there may be some risks in taking any medicine. To know these risks and knowing well how to avoid them or taking safe substitute is called medication safety. Medication safety for pregnant women We all know that pregnancy is the most beautiful thing to receive an angel from the heavens but we can not deny that in today’s time it is the most difficult process for some women. And when you are pregnant you experience a lot of changes into your body. At this sensitive time getting sick may be common but scary. It is very important for a pregnant la...