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| What to Drink | Fresh milk and cheese will provide you both with proteins and folic acid. Cottage – cheese, yoghurt and sour milk will also keep the flora of your digestive system healthy. Red meat is rich in proteins, iron and vitamins of B group, but white meat is digested easily. Fish and sea products contain easily adopted proteins and rare mineral salts, like iodine, which are also necessary for the thyroid gland normal functioning. The daily need of protein should be covered not only with the help of animal food, but with the help of those proteins, coming from vegetables as well. We can fine them in the beans, flour, nuts.
While you are pregnant, your necessity in liquid grows. Your fetus needs liquid as well, as his body, as well as the body of any person, mostly consists from liquid.
Liquid will purify your organism from toxins, keep your skin elastic, and decrease the constipation possibility. That is why it is especially useful to drink plenty of water if you are experiencing toxicosis, when your organism loses much of moisture. This may lead to dehydration, harmful for you as well as for your baby. You should also keep in mind that the amniotic fluid renews every 2 – 4 hours completely. But it never means that you should consume liquid in uncontrolled amounts. 8 – 10 glasses a day will be enough for both of you.
Purified water is the best for you and your little one now. It should become your main drink and contain 70% of liquid you consume. The rest 30% are juices, soups, vegetables and fruits. You should always have a bottle of water with you.
Mineral water is the best variant for any pregnant woman. Pure, without bubbles, it will quench your thirst and provide you with useful minerals.
Soda water is not very useful now. It is saturated with carbon that gives it refreshing taste, but irritates your stomach. Sweet soda drinks contain many synthetic chemical substances, not recommended by doctors at all, especially at the pregnancy period. They may cause for heartburn.
Juices are very useful of course, especially fresh squeezed ones. Make carrot, beetroot drinks, but do not get too much involved with any, as you may get allergic. You should avoid orange juice during the last months of your pregnancy.
If you could not stay without coffee and strong tea before, now it is just the time to restrict yourself in these drinks, as they contain caffeine that influences your baby’s health in a negative way. And these drinks prevent iron from getting into your stomach. So, you do not let yourself to more than a couple of cups per week of these drinks.
Cacao prevents calcium adoption by your organism. It may cause allergy even sooner than oranges or lemons. But if you are crazy about it, and having anemia, the only way out for you is to add more milk into your cup.
Tea contains caffeine as well. Do not forget about it. It is more useful to drink green tea, as it has many natural biologically active substances and antioxidants.
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