If I am pregnat is there any foods I need to eat?

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Pippin

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There are no specific foods that you must eat.
Just a healthy diet with foods from all the basic food groups (fruits, veggies, grains, protein foods, dairy products, etc.) in sufficient quantities to keep you healthy and help baby grow.

You want to avoid unpasturized dairy products, raw fish, raw/rare hamburger (rare steak is ok ... no bacteria gets into the muscle of the cow) and a few very-high mercury types of fish. (You can google for lists.)
Heat lunch meat before you eat it.
Avoid or VERY strictly limit alcohol. (Most sources will say that a single drink on occassion is ok. Others prefer that you abstain completely.)
Limit caffeine to about 200 mg. day.
Limit moderate-mercury fish. (Again, you can google for lists.)\
Limit junk food in general.
Probably best to avoid artificial sweeteners.

And don't obsess ... every day there are questions here asking if it's ok if they ate pizza (because they think that 'soft cheese' means mozzerella) or if they killed their baby because they drank a cup of coffee. Even if you mess up occassionally, the risk from most of this stuff is VERY VERY low.
 
There are no specific foods that you must eat.
Just a healthy diet with foods from all the basic food groups (fruits, veggies, grains, protein foods, dairy products, etc.) in sufficient quantities to keep you healthy and help baby grow.

You want to avoid unpasturized dairy products, raw fish, raw/rare hamburger (rare steak is ok ... no bacteria gets into the muscle of the cow) and a few very-high mercury types of fish. (You can google for lists.)
Heat lunch meat before you eat it.
Avoid or VERY strictly limit alcohol. (Most sources will say that a single drink on occassion is ok. Others prefer that you abstain completely.)
Limit caffeine to about 200 mg. day.
Limit moderate-mercury fish. (Again, you can google for lists.)\
Limit junk food in general.
Probably best to avoid artificial sweeteners.

And don't obsess ... every day there are questions here asking if it's ok if they ate pizza (because they think that 'soft cheese' means mozzerella) or if they killed their baby because they drank a cup of coffee. Even if you mess up occassionally, the risk from most of this stuff is VERY VERY low.
 
There are no specific foods that you must eat.
Just a healthy diet with foods from all the basic food groups (fruits, veggies, grains, protein foods, dairy products, etc.) in sufficient quantities to keep you healthy and help baby grow.

You want to avoid unpasturized dairy products, raw fish, raw/rare hamburger (rare steak is ok ... no bacteria gets into the muscle of the cow) and a few very-high mercury types of fish. (You can google for lists.)
Heat lunch meat before you eat it.
Avoid or VERY strictly limit alcohol. (Most sources will say that a single drink on occassion is ok. Others prefer that you abstain completely.)
Limit caffeine to about 200 mg. day.
Limit moderate-mercury fish. (Again, you can google for lists.)\
Limit junk food in general.
Probably best to avoid artificial sweeteners.

And don't obsess ... every day there are questions here asking if it's ok if they ate pizza (because they think that 'soft cheese' means mozzerella) or if they killed their baby because they drank a cup of coffee. Even if you mess up occassionally, the risk from most of this stuff is VERY VERY low.
 
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