EAT WELL for nine months
LONG BEFORE YOU fall pregnant, you should carefully plan your diet. Your first aim should be to achieve your ideal body weight, since being overweight and underweight plays a big role in your pregnancy, especially when it comes to your baby’s birth weight.
By the time you discover you have a bun in the oven, critical development has already happened. So, everything that you should be eating and avoiding during pregnancy is valid when you’re just dreaming about having a baby.
If you choose to follow these diet guidelines, you can lower the chances of your baby being born with birth defects, being born premature or having a low birth weight. You can even spare her developing chronic illnesses, such as high blood pressure and diabetes when you’re already a granny.
