You must start eating properly during pregnancy planning. If we talk about nutrition in general, then it should not contain "harmful" food: food from fast foods, containing preservatives, dyes and other synthetic substances.
It is necessary to limit the consumption of fried and fatty foods, smoked products (including sausages and fish). During this period, you can start taking vitamin B9 (folic acid). A sufficient amount of this vitamin will enable the child's nervous system to fully develop. Products containing folic acid: milk, fish, meat.
Proper nutrition at the beginning of pregnancy is not only a strong foundation of healthy growth and development of the fetus, but also an opportunity to keep your figure after childbirth. In the diet, you need to include a sufficient number of vegetables and fruits, slow carbohydrates (whole grains, in which a large number of dietary fiber), proteins.
Nutrition in the first trimester of pregnancy
Nutrition in the first trimester of pregnancy should be given special attention, because it is during this period that the organs and systems of life of the unborn child are formed. In accordance with the stages of the formation of the fetal organs, it is possible to compose the diet of the future mother by weeks.
Nutrition in the first weeks of pregnancy
The first two weeks the fertilized egg moves to the uterus and is fixed in it. Beginning with the third week, the woman's body begins to need additional calcium, which is necessary for the formation of bone tissue (dairy products, fruit juices, broccoli and green vegetables). Also, to build a new organism you need manganese and zinc (eggs, bananas, nuts, oatmeal).
It is necessary not only to balance nutrition in the first month of pregnancy, but also to abandon bad habits. The ideal period for this is the fourth week. Right now, there is an adaptation of the female body to a new condition, and without stress, it can transfer the rejection of nicotine and caffeine.
The fifth week is most often remembered for future mothers by the fact that toxicosis begins! To avoid it or ease its condition, you need to eat legumes, nuts, eggs, cheese and carrots. Give up products that you are disgusted with and disagreeable with. Until the seventh week the fetus has a nervous system, a heart, a brain, respiratory tracts and many internal organs. Now the body needs proteins, fats, calcium, fluoride, phosphorus and vitamins B and E ( milk , meat, fish, greens).
From the eighth to the ninth week, bones, joints, lungs and the cerebellum develop actively. The woman's body undergoes a number of changes. The volume of blood increases. There is a need for vitamins C and P (they are contained in onions, dog-rose, black currant, strawberry, buckwheat). During this period, a woman can begin to recover rapidly. Then you need to limit the consumption of flour products, sweets.
The cardiovascular system begins to form in the tenth week. Also during this period, the foundations of the teeth, the reproductive system, and the sense of smell are laid. The organism of the mother needs iron (red meat, beans), calcium, fluorine (fish), zinc (cheese, legumes, seafood), vitamin E (nuts, spinach, dried apricots).
By the twelfth week of pregnancy, all the organs of a future child have been formed.
General recommendations
In the first weeks of pregnancy, a woman's diet should be varied. It should feed your body with different vitamins, micro- and macro elements. Already in the first days of pregnancy, nutrition affects the health of the baby, it lays the foundation for its development.
Also nutrition at the first stages of pregnancy is important for a woman, as she gives the child useful substances from her body and must restore it in time.