Healthy Pregnancy Diet

layersofmeaning · May 2010

Hello everyone! I'm looking for weekly healthy pregnancy diet plans. Any suggestions? Books, websites? I find it easier to follow a healthy plan if I have sample menus. Thanks.

MF

jenn5283 · May 2010

I was just gonna post this. Guess were in the same boat. I'm trying to make a food shopping list. Any help will be greatful

Anonymi · May 2010

Pretty much you just want to keep to a healthy diet that you would have before pregnancy adding a few hundred extra calories.

Also you want to avoid things like: caffeine, certain seafood (though I know that shrimp, salmon, tilapia, catfish and light tuna are still safe), sandwich meats, soft cheeses (check for the word pasteurized on the package) , and be careful on medications until you know what is okay or not okay through your ob.

princesscm99 · May 2010

"What to Expect When You're Expecting" has a pretty good diet section, but I will warn you with this as well as all other pregnancy eating plans:

Do not beat yourself up when you most likely are unable to eat as well as you'd like. Week four I wrote up a wonderful menu for myself, went grocery shopping, bought all kinds of great organic stuff, and ate wonderfully. Week five I started getting queasy and ate much less. This past week I was nauseous all the freakin time and I was lucky to keep down whole wheat toast and peanut butter.

At some point you'll probably just decide that eating healthy means keeping food down.

Good luck!

Raemee4818 · May 2010

What to Expect: Eating Well When You're Expecting

What to Eat When You're Expecting

LIBride6-16-07 · May 2010

Try www.babyfit.com It had menus to follow and also tools to track how many servings of fruits and veggies and water you are getting. It reminds me of the weight watchers online program.

shanesfiance · May 2010

Babyfit.com is a good free website. I used it for awhile to see if I was getting enough calcium and iron and just to kind of see where I was doing good and where I was falling short.

It shows you daily menu suggestions for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. You can also turn off the menu suggestions and just put in whatever you ate that day. It lets you add your own foods too if they are not in the database (just copy info off the package for calories, fat, etc) and it stores it for future use.

PunkyBooster · May 2010

The links above are great.

It's early- don't be hard on yourself if can't stomach much until your second tri. I couldn't eat veggies until week 9 and even now I can't have them cooked (gag). Something appeals to me one day and makes my stomach turn the next.

The main thing I am focusing on is milk and my vitamins. I let myself eat what my stomach wants- which is mostly salad, pizza/pasta, and foods that don't hurt coming back up (most soft, unchunky foods)

arissachic · May 2010

This makes me giggle because I was the exact same way at 4 weeks. Got my preggo Yoga DVD's and workout stuff and was going to eat awesome - and then about 6 weeks it all goes out the window. You feel like crap you crave eating crap. I havn't eaten a cookie or ice cream in 15 years and all I wanted to do was make cupcakes - I don't even like cupcakes! So good luck but don't get to discouraged. I am eating healty again now but I was a total fat kid up until a week ago

NW_Clarinetist · May 2010

The Mayo Clinic's Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy has a great outline of what you should be eating everyday. I don't remember if there are menus, but it will at least help you plan out menus. But, like everyone else has said, it goes out the window when you're not feeling well. The only thing that stays down for me right now are cheeseburgers and Taco Bell of all things. Be sure to have a good prenatal vitamin.

manatee21 · May 2010

I got these books from the library and was able to get some good tips and recipes too:

The Well-Rounded Pregnancy Cookbook

Feed the Belly

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