Menu for pregnant women - 1 trimester

Eating a pregnant woman plays an important role in the development of the baby. This is relevant not only for later terms, but also apply to the first trimester. Of course, it is impossible at one point to adjust to the right rhythm and diet, but it must be done as soon as possible for the good of your child.

There are four groups of products that must necessarily enter the menu of pregnant women in the first trimester. Proper use of them ensures that the baby will develop fully, and the future mother will not suffer from a lack of essential microelements and vitamins.


Vegetables and fruits

The menu for pregnant women in the first trimester necessarily includes fruits and vegetables. This category of products forms the basis of the so-called pyramid of proper nutrition. In it, from the bottom up, there are lists of products, from the most useful (in the diet there should be many), to those that must be present on the pregnant table in the minimum amount.

Vegetables and fruits should be consumed at least four times a day and, if possible, untreated. So, it is better to eat a fresh apple or a handful of berries, rather than jam from them. Fiber found in these foods helps the intestines work more actively and reduces the likelihood of constipation, to which pregnant women are so prone.

In addition, red beets, carrots, apples, pomegranates contain the iron necessary for the baby. Using these products constantly, the mother creates his stock and for the period of future breastfeeding.

To not so desirable for the pregnant woman vegetables, the potato concerns. It should be a little in the first trimester of pregnancy, because this is a high-carbohydrate product, vitamins are not necessary and many are needed. Excessive consumption of potatoes in fried and choked form leads to a set of excess weight. An exception for this product is baked potatoes.

Cereal (flour) products

Products from white flour, such as rolls, bread, cakes, cakes, vareniki should appear in the first trimester of pregnancy extremely rarely. There is even an advice to those who can not limit the portions of such products - just abandon them. This is not so difficult as it seems - it will suffice for about a week and then the craving for harmful products disappears.

But how to be without bread? Do not eat it at all? Of course, no, after all, the use of gray or black bread will be more useful than white. Even better, if a piece of whole-grain is going to the first dish.

Porridge from buckwheat, wheat and oatmeal should always be included in the menu during pregnancy, not only in 1, but also in the 2nd and 3rd trimester. They are full of all sorts of microelements necessary for the normal development of the fetus and make the diet diverse and useful. But rice cereals should not be used often and in small amounts, so as not to cause constipation.

Meat and fish products

Dairy and meat products are at the same level of the food pyramid, but they are not interchangeable, but necessary in equal measure. Meat can not eat everything, and from fat pork and lamb is better to refuse. Will be useful chicken, turkey, rabbit, veal and all kinds of fish, but preference is still given to the sea, and not river, as it contains useful for pregnant Omega-3 acids.

From by-products, you should choose a liver - it helps to saturate the body with iron. But the kidneys, lungs and other products of this group should now abstain.

Dairy

If a woman does not use fresh milk, this is not a problem. To replenish the ration of the milk group can kefir, low-fat cottage cheese and sour cream. From fatty household cream is better to refuse - harm from them now will be more than good. Solid cheeses are very useful, but you should not abuse them, 30 grams a day will suffice.

Fats in the form of cream, vegetable and other oils should be present at a minimum, as well as sweets: chocolate, ice cream, baked goods.