About half of all pregnancies in the United States are unplanned. But increasingly women are able to plan their pregnancies, a trend that has the potential to improve children’s health when mothers-to-be take the time to make sure they are entering pregnancy prepared. If you are reading this post before pregnancy, congratulations; you have the opportunity to take some positive steps to help
secure your future baby’s health.
Women who are hoping to become pregnant are often concerned with ensuring their fertility, and we’ll talk about the role nutrition may play helping you conceive. The goal of planning for pregnancy is not just to help you get pregnant but also to help ensure that you are in the best possible health when you become pregnant. By achieving a good state of health before your pregnancy, you can help avoid some potential complications and also increase the chances that your child will be healthy. Here are a few of the advantages of pre pregnancy planning:
• Reaching a healthy weight before pregnancy will make your pregnancy easier and can contribute to the long-term health of your child.
• Supplementing your diet with folic acid now can help prevent birth defects.
• Adopting good health habits now will help you maintain them throughout your pregnancy.
• Getting any medical conditions under control before pregnancy can help prevent complications.
If you are planning a pregnancy, you should start changing habits now rather than waiting until you are pregnant. There are two reasons why it’s good to plan ahead. One is simply that changing habits can be a difficult task. The more time you allow yourself to start following a healthier diet, cutting back on harmful habits, and addressing your own health, the easier it will be to have a healthy pregnancy. The second reason is the unpredictability of pregnancy.
Once you start trying to get pregnant, you won’t know whether it will happen this week, this month, or this year. You won’t know for sure that you are pregnant until you miss a period and have a positive pregnancy test. By that time, you will probably have been pregnant for a couple of weeks or more. While a few weeks is just a small amount of time in a person’s life, it is a critical time for your baby’s development. Those first weeks are a time when the foundations of a baby’s body are put into place; just three days after your first missed period, all of the major organs in your baby’s body have
begun to form. During this time, your baby’s health is sensitive to potential nutrient deficiencies or exposures to harmful substances. Because you can’t be sure when pregnancy will happen, the best chance to give your baby a healthy start is to make sure you are already providing the proper environment for a fetus before you become pregnant.
secure your future baby’s health.
Women who are hoping to become pregnant are often concerned with ensuring their fertility, and we’ll talk about the role nutrition may play helping you conceive. The goal of planning for pregnancy is not just to help you get pregnant but also to help ensure that you are in the best possible health when you become pregnant. By achieving a good state of health before your pregnancy, you can help avoid some potential complications and also increase the chances that your child will be healthy. Here are a few of the advantages of pre pregnancy planning:
• Reaching a healthy weight before pregnancy will make your pregnancy easier and can contribute to the long-term health of your child.
• Supplementing your diet with folic acid now can help prevent birth defects.
• Adopting good health habits now will help you maintain them throughout your pregnancy.
• Getting any medical conditions under control before pregnancy can help prevent complications.
If you are planning a pregnancy, you should start changing habits now rather than waiting until you are pregnant. There are two reasons why it’s good to plan ahead. One is simply that changing habits can be a difficult task. The more time you allow yourself to start following a healthier diet, cutting back on harmful habits, and addressing your own health, the easier it will be to have a healthy pregnancy. The second reason is the unpredictability of pregnancy.
Once you start trying to get pregnant, you won’t know whether it will happen this week, this month, or this year. You won’t know for sure that you are pregnant until you miss a period and have a positive pregnancy test. By that time, you will probably have been pregnant for a couple of weeks or more. While a few weeks is just a small amount of time in a person’s life, it is a critical time for your baby’s development. Those first weeks are a time when the foundations of a baby’s body are put into place; just three days after your first missed period, all of the major organs in your baby’s body have
begun to form. During this time, your baby’s health is sensitive to potential nutrient deficiencies or exposures to harmful substances. Because you can’t be sure when pregnancy will happen, the best chance to give your baby a healthy start is to make sure you are already providing the proper environment for a fetus before you become pregnant.
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