Childbirth Video - Healthy Pregnancy Choices

You must have already felt the changes in your body from pregnancy. Watching this childbirth video you will learn a lot about healthy pregnancy and nutrition. Pregnancy is the time you expand not only in the outer physical world, but your senses expand their perception ranges s and your body and blood circulatory system expand and work for two.

The basis of this expansion is in what you eat.

During pregnancy your primary need is iron. Iron goes into the baby's muscles, blood, and other tissues.

The mother's bloodstream also supplies the baby with protein, minerals and vitamins. Watch the childbirth video to learn what the experts say about the healthy choices you can make to have a fit pregnancy and easy birth.

Iron stands out as vital. It is the most important part of the hemoglobin molecule. The hemoglobin molecule is what a red blood cell is made of. The hemoglobin molecule carries the oxygen through the blood to all the body tissues.

During pregnancy mother's blood increases with 33% - one third extra blood runs in the mother. The baby also creates its own supply and some more blood is stored in the placenta and the cord after birth.

The placenta soaks up iron for the baby. The mother's bone marrow creates her blood cells. That is why it also needs extra iron and soaks up or draws on iron stored in the bone marrow itself. A healthy woman average iron pool is about 500 mg. While pregnant the woman needs 1000 mg of iron.

Watch the childbirth video to learn about the best nutrition in pregnancy. Pregnancy is not only an "iron hungry" state, but also a "protein" hungry state. You need to have a balanced diet, including grains, fruits, vegetables and liquids, to provide sustenance for you and the baby.

The blood volume and the other maternal tissues grow very visibly from 12 weeks to 20. The greatest need of more food occurs from 20 to 30 weeks. After the 30th week, the baby really grows rapidly, but the maternal tissues are essentially complete.

It is important to choose not only quantity, but quality products. You need to provide the greatest value of iron, protein, and fiber to the baby without burdening your own body. This childbirth video is covers a wide range of topics on healthy pregnancy which is a prerequisite for easy birth.

So, choose high quality foods. These high quality foods will help the baby grow all the complex tissues of a human body.

Nutrition (as you see in the childbirth video) is important from the very start of pregnancy. If you have morning sickness, find the foods which you can eat and appeal to you.

In the first trimester you might feel very picky, but really make your best to eat fresh food and whole grain cereals, vegetables and fruit. You usually get hungry for the kind of food you need.

By the second trimester the uterus compresses the stomach and even though you are hungry, you get quickly full. At that time you may eat six small meals a day, instead of three.

With the increase of the serum portion of the blood you will need more water. Your body has a perfect signal system to tell you that it needs more water. Your mouth gets dry. If you tune in to your body, you will drink what you need in pregnancy. If the day is stressful, you might be forgetful, and then it is better to create a ritual of drinking water regularly. Learn more by watching the childbirth video.

You might feel also hunger for salt. If you have been craving for olives, or some pickles, this is because you need more salt. Don't discourage this need. Blood is a salty fluid. Natural salt is ionized. Ions are simply atoms that have gained or lost electrons. Ions play many important roles in the body, from controlling muscular contractions, to firing nerve impulses, maintaining brain and heart function, and digestion. Important ionic minerals that do this are; sodium, magnesium, calcium, and potassium.

Salt is also iodized.Prevention of iodine deficiency is most simply done by eating seafood regularly or by the use of iodized salt. Too much salt affects blood pressure -- and not in a good way. But for some people, cutting back has a downside. Too little salt -- iodized salt, that is -- is dangerous, too. It's the iodine in iodized salt that helps the body make thyroid hormone, which is critical to an infant's brain development. Iodine is an essential mineral for the production of thyroid hormones. Too little iodine in a pregnant women's diet can affect the development of the fetus' brain and can cause cretinism, an irreversible form of physical and mental retardation. Iodine deficiency during infancy can also result in abnormal brain development and impaired intellectual development.

Iodized salt is rarely found in canned, frozen, or boxed food. French fries and other snack foods mostly contain regular salt -- not iodized salt.

The woman who eats well will be strong and capable during childbirth. Watch the childbirth video to get some tips about healthy pregnancy and nutrition. Good nutrition is also important after birth. Often after birth is the time between pregnancies. You do not need to have lower hemoglobin and hematocrit with each pregnancy. Pay attention to what you eat. Proper care and feeding will make you and your children healthy.

 

 

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