12 Basic Items for Your and Baby’s Health
Nourishment is an important item that influences your health condition. Correct and well - balanced diet helps your baby's physical and intellectual development. Here come 12 vitamins and minerals most important for future mothers and their children.
12 Basic Items for Your and Baby’s Health
Vitamin A
It protects the thinnest membranes from getting over dried. It also fights viruses and pathogenic bacteria, keeps your body young and healthy, makes your skin smooth and elastic. It’s hard to overestimate the usefulness of this vitamin for our eyes. Its deficiency leads to the eyesight weakening.
Eat regularly: cod – liver oil, egg yolks, sour cream, milk, cheese, green vegetables and yellow and red vegetables: onion, spinach, cabbage, carrots, pumpkins, etc.
It is important to know: you should add fats like butter, oil or sour – cream to all carotene – containing vegetables. After cottage – cheese with sour – cream drink a glass of carrot juice.

Vitamin B6
It calms your nerves down, raises your spirit. You will avoid anemia with the help of it. This vitamin is also necessary for your baby’s brain and for his immune system development.
Eat regularly: meat, milk, cottage – cheese, cheese, oatmeal, eggs, sunflower seeds, nuts.
It is important to know: frozen, cooked and tinned products contain much less of vitamin B6, than fresh ones.

Vitamin B9
You and your baby need it very much. Folic acid helps to prevent any fetus’ development violation during first 12 weeks after fertilization. It is good for the work of nervous and blood systems. It is also a base of the “hormone of happiness” production.
Eat regularly: spinach, beetroot, watermelons, apples, oranges, carrots, eggs, milk, and beef.
It is important to know: take folic acid during your first pregnancy months.

Vitamin B12
It stimulates protein synthesis, controls growth and development processes, and takes part in blood circulation and in the work of the nervous system. Keep it in mind, if you want to look well, as any lack of this vitamin leads to your skin aging processes.
Eat regularly: meat, beef kidneys, cod liver, sea products, milk, and cheese.
It is important to know: we can find this useful vitamin only in the food of the organic origin. So, if you keep to a vegetarian diet, you may have the deficiency of it.

Vitamin C
It is necessary for you to take it in order to prevent diseases and make your organism stronger. Ascorbic acid is the worst enemy of all viruses and pathogenic microbes; it increases the resistibility of your organism towards any infection and stimulates metabolic processes as well. This vitamin raises your spirit up and now it is especially important for you! The lack of ascorbic acid leads to easy fatiguability and increases the risk or catching a cold, calls for irritability and sleepiness.
Eat regularly: lemons and oranges, cabbage, tomatoes, potatoes, sweetbrier.
 It is important to know: you should eat products that contain ascorbic acid every day, because vitamin C does not get accumulated in your organism. There is the ferment that destroys it in fresh cucumbers. That is why do not add cucumbers into the salad, prepared of cabbage.

Vitamin D
Iit is worked out in our skin under the impact of the sun. The deficiency of it may cause caries and lack of calcium in our bones. This “sunny vitamin” is especially important for your baby’s skeleton and teeth formation. It makes the calcium and phosphorus adoption easier.
Eat regularly: egg yolks, sea fish, and butter.
It is important to know: too much of vitamin D causes the calcium accumulation in the blood that may provoke cork formation in your arteries. 

Vitamin E
Iit protects red blood corpuscles, that carry oxygen to heart and other organs and systems. It also favours the conjunctive tissue and muscles development and it prevents any inflammatory process in the organism. Keep this vitamin in mind, as it foresees the miscarriage risk. The deficiency of it may lead to easy tiredness and having anemia.
Eat regularly: oil, green vegetables, nuts, eggs.
It is important to know: high temperature, fresh air and light access destroy vitamin E. Keep your oil tightly closed in the bottle and in a dark place.

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