How exciting - you have just discovered you are pregnant! A new life is growing inside you, from a single sperm and egg into pounds of adorable flesh! What an absolute miracle!! To do the very best you can, you head to the internet to try and find whatever advice you can to achieve great health during pregnancy, for yourself and the baby.
You read time and time again that it is absolutely essential for you to eat good, nutritious food. You will read information on how you can not just eat anything just because you are pregnant. You read that what you eat helps with the brain, bone and organ development of your child, as well as your own health during pregnancy, labour and recovery.
Perhaps this information was new to you, perhaps not. It is all good, helpful information that helps you to lay down the foundation for your baby.
BUT . . . did you know this?
What you eat during your pregnancy will ALSO help your baby eat well after it is born and on solid foods. As your pregnancy progresses, some of what you eat will cross the placenta and the taste will be in your baby's amniotic fluid. Babies actually swallow this fluid and are able to taste these flavours even in the womb. Doctors believe that babies who are exposed to a wide variety of fruit and vegetables while in the uterus have less of a chance of being a fussy eater later in life. They think that these are the babies who will eat their fruit and vegetables without putting up any fight.
Another rarely known fact is that doctors also believe that the children of moms who drink their milk while pregnant will be weaned onto regular milk a lot easier! Who doesn't like that idea? It is recommended that you drink at least one glass of milk, preferably fat free, a day. A great thing about drinking milk is that it is also a good source of calcium which the babys bones and teeth need for development, even though the teeth do not come through for at least a few months.
So, how would you be? It is what you eat while you are pregnant that may possibly tell how well it will eat fruit and vegetables!! Take my advice, do anything you can to do that will make it a good eater. If you can avoid the struggles later on to get it to eat healthy, all the better!!
So, a possible long term benefit to make you strive for your health during pregnancy!
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Do all that you can to look after your health during pregnancy and the health of your unborn child. For further must have tips, visit http://www.health-during-pregnancy.com
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