Vitamin Complex for Pregnant Women

To ensure the future child's normal growth and development, and to protect oneself from violations in the body, the expectant mother should take vitamins. But not just one vitamin, but a whole complex, which contains a lot of useful substances. Let's talk about vitamins and their properties more.

Vitamin H, or biotin

It is necessary for the skin to develop normally and be healthy, so that the necessary liquid balance is maintained in it. If there is a shortage of vitamin N in the body of a future mother, the skin of the hands signals this first. It becomes dry, and under the eyes often appear early wrinkles.

Where can I get vitamin H?

From yeast, kidneys, liver, as well as mushrooms, beans, eggs, milk, berries: strawberries and blueberries.

Vitamin K

Very useful for the future mom and baby vitamin. It promotes the production of substances that are necessary for normal blood clotting. Without this vitamin in the future mother may bleed.

And vitamin K is extremely necessary for babies from the mother's body, because the baby can not develop it yet, can not.

Where to get vitamin K?

Basically from plants: cabbage, dogrose, tomatoes, carrots, spinach and all green salads, as well as nettle, alfalfa, strawberry.

Vitamin D

Without this extremely useful vitamin, bone tissue will grow very slowly. Vitamin D promotes the growth of teeth, bones of the skeleton, the development of hair follicles.

Without vitamin D in the body of the future baby and her mother can not absorb such useful substances as calcium and phosphorus. Therefore, vitamin D must necessarily be in the diet of a pregnant woman.

Where to get vitamin D?

From fish oil, sea fish, milk, butter, as well as mushrooms, nettle, spinach.

Greenhouse vegetables do not produce as much vitamin D as grown in the garden. Because this vitamin has a property to be formed only under the sun's rays, and not in the shade of the greenhouses.

Interesting facts about cooking fish - a source of vitamin D

When you prepare fish, consider a few nuances, future mothers. This is very useful for you and your child. Optimum for you lean fish, namely: pike, cod, saury, hake, perch. It is well absorbed by the body and gives a maximum of useful substances.

You during pregnancy are best avoided such fish as tuna, shark, mackerel - these kinds of ocean fish can highly contain heavy metals, which is extremely harmful for the health of both: mother and child.

Vitamin E or tocopherol

This vitamin helps fight against aging and unfavorable climate. This is thanks to him in the cells is an active oxygen exchange. This is thanks to him in the cells of the pregnant mother and baby delivered nutrients. This is due to tocopherol, our body is better against inflammations and infections.

Vitamin E is able to synthesize pregnancy hormones, it is actively involved in the production of breast milk. It accelerates metabolic processes in the body, helps to develop muscle tissue better, improves oxygen exchange in it.

If there is not enough vitamin E in the body of the mother, the growth of the child inside can be disturbed and significantly slowed down.

Where can I get vitamin E?

Most often it is found in plants. Namely in peas, green leaf lettuce, sea-buckthorn. And in peanuts, peanut butter, as well as corn and other types of oils.

Vitamin E is very little in meat and fish food, fats and liver. But it is a lot of in beans and soy.

A little about fats in the diet of pregnant women

Fats, according to the general false belief, lead to a significant increase in weight. Therefore, many, struggling with excess weight, especially during pregnancy, exclude fats from the diet or try to eat foods with their minimum doses. So: this is fundamentally wrong.

If the future mother wants to stay healthy and cares to ensure that her baby is fully developed, fat should not be avoided. First, fats are present in our cells, and without them normal vital activity is simply impossible.

Fats help vitamins be better absorbed by the body (fat-soluble). They help the intestines also absorb many minerals. If the diet of the future mother does not have fat, her skin will eventually lose its elasticity and healthy color.

Fats in the diet are extremely important for the normal operation of the brain. Do not be surprised and bear in mind that the cells of the brain have more than 60% fats. Imagine what will happen if they are deprived of this vital component!

And more information for general development: if from 1 gram of proteins in the diet we get 4.1 Kcal, and, consequently, a certain dose of energy, then from 1 gram of fat - more than twice! As much as 9.3 kcal - that is twice the life energy and vivacity.

Take into account this fact when you start to think about the menu for yourself and your future child, dear moms.

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