Proper nutrition during pregnancy is essential to your health and your child, but can be turned into very bad for it if too fat and that weight gain is inadequate.
Pregnancy involves increased nutritional requirements, this means an increase in energy consumption (called increased basal metabolic rate) with the increase in nutritive elements, vitamins and minerals.
Anyway this is not excessive consumption of food, much less the increase in carbohydrate consumption although many mothers experience increased appetite or selectivity for certain foods.
The maternal weight
The ideal average weight gain in late pregnancy is (between week 38-42) 11 Kg
According to the committee on Maternal Nutrition National Research Council 1989, with a gain of 1 kg during the first trimester and 400 g per week from the second quarter.
This is due to begin forming new tissues, organs and unborn child develops.
It is important that during this period receive a correct diet in order to avoid complications and promote the normal course of your pregnancy and fetal growth.
A little weight gain, ie the bottom of 9 kg, can adversely affect pregnancy, in the sense of having a child as a result of low birth weight (less than 2.5 kg).
Studies show the existence of a relationship between fetal malnutrition and changes in weight and size of newborns who receive inadequate supply of nutrients during the gestation period, through a gap in the nutrition of the mother. It is imperative to motivate women to skinny gain weight during pregnancy than women of normal weight. This means that if you keep your weight within normal limits (9 and 12 kg) integrate the body of pregnant women with less incidence of preeclampsia, prematurity and low birth weight. (more…)
