Write Pregnancy Diary During Pregnancy

It’s good if all expecting mother to adopt writing a daily pregnancy diary during their pregnancy period. This pregnancy diary is to record accurately the pregnancy related events. Keeping a diary during pregnancy is important so as when your Gynecologist read your diary it will helps him/her to understand your specific situation better during pregnancy. The content should keep it simple when writing your personal pregnancy diary. Pregnant woman should record and write everything accordance to your own feelings.

What should I write about on pregnancy diary?

Here are the list of things you can record down for future easy reference.

1. Your last menstrual period. Gynecologist can then judged and calculated your expecting delivery date.

2. The beginning and the end of your morning sickness, nausea, vomiting and anorexia to what extent.

3. The first time when you can feel your baby movements. Usually you can feet your baby movement in around the 16-18 weeks of pregnancy.

4. Records and preserved the test result examine by your gynecological.

5. All kinds of pregnancy complications encounter such as vaginal bleeding, lower limb swelling, dizziness, confusion, visual impairment, with the exception of timely treatment, should be recorded in the pregnancy diary.

6. Are you exposed to any radioactive material?

7. Your fetal movement situation. Generally your baby will move more than four times per hour. If less than 4 time, there a possibility that your fetal having hypoxia. Do consult your gynecological immediately.

8. When and what type illness during pregnancy. In particular if it is a virus infection, you should record down in more detailed.

9. As pregnant woman cannot take any type of medication. If you are under medication during pregnancy. Please include the drug name, dosage and the date you take. Consult your gynecological immediately of the medication.

10. Record down any sex activity during pregnancy. It is best to consult your doctor before having sex as it may cause abortion or may cause premature baby.

11. The date of prenatal care, abnormal fetal position, the fetal heart rate, blood pressure, weight, and so on.

Beside writing down important pregnancy related things mention above, expecting mother can also write about their experiences of their childbearing. Or write about your changing bodies, your fears of labor, childbirth, and parenting.

Excessive Weight Gain During Pregnancy

Almost all expecting mother may have a concern about excessive weight gain during pregnancy. But your baby’s development have to depends on your nutrition food intake from as early stages right through to breastfeeding. Expecting mother, these concerns can be taken care of if you follow a well- balanced nutrition diet everyday.

Let look take a closer insight of what will happen to you during the early stage of pregnancy.

In the early stage of pregnancy, your food diet should be light. As most of the pregnant women, during the 5-6 weeks appear to have symptom of nausea and vomiting while eating. Loss of appetite is a common reaction during the first  few weeks of pregnancy. Generally at most in three months this symptom will naturally reduce or disappear. Pregnant women at this stage should try to eat light food for easy digestion. Avoid oily foods, no alcohol and caffeine drinks.

Expecting mother Examine Your Eating Habits

During the early stages of pregnancy, there is a tendency of incurring excessive weight gain. Expecting mother should examine their eating habits and change your eating habits accordingly. Stop eating food that are salty, deep-frying food, sweets. These foods are likely to cause excessive weight gain. Pregnant woman must find ways to improve and overcome your cravings for this type of food.

During the second trimester

During the second trimester pregnancy you can consider taking some simple exercise activities, exercise movement is of great help to pregnant women. It helps to reduce pregnancy related discomfort and lowering the chance of having to have a cesarean. But you must avoid rapid exercise, avoid lifting heavy weights.

What are the type of nutrition food intake during the second trimester

During the second trimester, your appetite will improve and will eat more. This is the time you will incur excessive weight gain. This is the time you need to take note of the food intake. At this stage expecting mother should avoid eating too much fried, greasy food and sweets to prevent excessive weight gain.  Pay more attention on foods with iron-rich such as liver and beef, to prevent iron deficiency anemia.

You may encounter frequent leg cramps. This may be due to calcium deficiency. Your pregnancy diet meal should include high-calcium foods such as milk, soybean products and so on.

During the third trimester

Beside your normal three nutrition meal intake, take note of food that you take between (tea break). It is necessary to strictly control yourself and avoid excessive food intake on food contain starch and high-fat food such as cakes, any other type of desserts. You are encourage to eat fruits, cup of milk or just a small whole wheat bread. Avoid all junk food.

What are the type of nutrition food intake during the third trimester

Pregnant woman should ensure quality of meals intake with different food variety. During the final three months, at this stage, your fetal with growth faster than other trimester. Your baby’s nutritional needs will increase and you may be more risk of developing nutritional deficiencies. At this stage you have to make sure that the food you eat is nutritious.

Food including sources of calcium and B vitamins in your diet becomes very important and reduce salt intake.

Some good sources of vitamins B6 and B12 are:

* Brown rice
* Baked potato (with skin)
* Bananas, prune juice, carrot juice
* Nuts (and peanut butter, for those who like its taste)
* Eggs and dairy products

Some good sources of calcium are:

* Dairy products such as Yoghurt
* Soyabean and tofu
* Almonds and other nuts
* Sesame seeds

Remember at every stage of pregnancy, the main focus nutrition food intake must include Folic Acid, vegetables and fruits. At every stage of pregnancy needs eat according to what is needed. Take note of what incur excessive weight gain to you. Watch and change your eating habits. Stop eating salty, deep-frying food, sweets that likely to cause excessive weight gain. Pregnant woman must find ways to improve and overcome your cravings, seek profession help when needed.

Maintain a Healthy Weight During Pregnancy

Every woman during pregnancy will gain weight and it’s natural when you are expecting a baby. But how to maintain healthy weight during pregnancy. I believe every pregnant woman would care about their body weight. If too excessive weight gain, woman will worry that these will be added to the weight of her body. The pressure of post-natal diet will always linger. However, if the pregnant woman has insufficient weight gain, mothers worried about fetal health whether there will be a problem.

So how much weight gain during pregnancy is normal so as not to increase excessive weight gain and also not to reduce nutrition intake during pregnancy?

To determine the amount of weight gain during pregnancy is depend on the weight of the woman before pregnancy. And what is the ideal weight during the nine month pregnancy can be calculated by measuring BMI (body weight index) before getting pregnant. As nutritionists said that pregnant women should gain weight in accordance with their own body weight index.

How to calculate BMI?

BMI (body weight index) is calculated by the person body weight (kg as a unit) divided by height (meters units) of the square. For example, if the weight is 50 kilograms, is 1.65 m in height, then the BMI = 50 ÷ 1.65 ÷ 1.65 = 18.36. The body weight index is 18.36. Normal women’s BMI is 20 to 26.

Different stages of trimester during pregnancy, will have different weight gain.

We would recommend to normal pregnant women in the first trimester (1-3 months) monthly increase in weight should be around 0.5 kg. Some pregnant women because of pregnancy reaction, nausea, vomiting, anorexia, weight loss will appear in this situation. You do not have to worry too much for in the second trimester (4-6 months), your weight should increase to 0.25-0.35 kg per week. During pregnancy in the second trimester, a total of about four kilograms in increase in weight. Subsequently in the latter part of pregnancy, the weight will increase 0.5 kilograms per week. And in the final three months, a total of weight gain about six kilograms.

The risk of excessive weight gain.

If you are are obese or overweight before pregnant, without proper weight control during pregnancy, the risk of eclampsia occurred will be higher than the average pregnant woman. Excessive weight gain during pregnancy will easily lead to hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, urinary tract infections, diabetes, kidney disease. In addition you may not give birth naturally.

Take note of the BMI weight categories of weight gain.

If your weight is too light when your BMI less than 18.5, 11-18kg. Most Obstetrics and Gynecology Medical Association believes that BMI less than 19.5, consider the weight was too light. The normal weight for pregnant woman should be around BMI 19.5-24, 11-13 kg, the maximum weight is up to 16 kg. Other then that are consider overweight.

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