Daily Health Tip: The 5 Food Groups
Eat healthy to get the nutrients you and your unborn baby need. Your meals should include the five basic food groups. Each day you should get the following: 6-11 servings…
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Daily Health Tip: Put Down That Coffee!
Legal drugs such as alcohol and caffeine are important issues for pregnant women. There is no known safe amount of alcohol a woman can drink while pregnant. Fetal alcohol syndrome…
Continue readingDaily Health Tip: Your Pregnancy Weight
Being overweight or underweight during pregnancy may cause problems. Try to get within 15 pounds of your ideal weight before pregnancy. Remember, pregnancy is not a time to be dieting! …
Continue readingDaily Health Tip: Folic Acid
Take 400 micrograms of folic acid daily both before pregnancy and during the first few months of pregnancy to reduce the risk of birth defects of the brain and spine. …
Continue readingPregnant or Trying to Be? Take Your Folate!
Women of childbearing age should take 400 mcg of folic acid, aka folate, daily, say the March of Dimes and the Institute of Medicine. Folate has been proven to prevent…
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