Right Diet During Pregnancy

It is very essential to eat the right food at the right time. One needs to eat nutritious food too at this time. Everything you eat should have some good food value. One should eat for two but not twice as much. The body takes the nutrients it requires, regardless of whether you have enough or not.

The food you need to take should be rich in iron, calcium and proteins. Body needs iron for the formation of baby's blood. Then it takes calcium from mother's body to form baby's bones and teeth. Iron is present in green leafy vegetables. You may keep pudhina and dhania chutney handy, just make small quantity and store in a bottle in refrigerator. Two spoon of chutney meet a good part of your daily iron requirement. Iron is present in kishmish or raisins. It is present in gur or jiggery, powdered brown sugar, soyabean, kabuli channa, kala channa, whole Bengal gram, horse gram, rajma, green gram and sprouted moong are rich in both iron and calcium.

If you don't sieve the atta or flour before making chapattis you will get iron from it. Calcium is there in milk and milk products. You must drink three glasses of milk in a day. You can have milk in whichever form you like - curry made curd, cheese, paneer, custard, lassi etc. Eggs and lemons are good source of calcium. Lack of calcium will make you weak. It can also cause severe backache. It is a good idea to take a cup of hot milk before you sleep.

Protein is the body's building material. You need protein to build baby's body and it is also needed for the maintenance of your body too. If you eat pulses, dals and an egg a day you get enough proteins. If you are a pure vegetarian and do not eat eggs, you can have dals which is a very good source of protein. For non vegetarian who eat meat at least thrice a week the protein intake is adequate. Nuts like peanuts or moong phalli, almonds or badams, cashewnuts or kaju are also good source of protein. Channa, channa dal or roasted channa is also very good source of protein. You can keep channas mixed with jiggery to eat when hungry. Channa will provide you protein and jaggery will provide you iron. In this period of time you must take a good care of yourself.