Healthy Diet for Pregnant Recipes

Pregnancy is never an easy process. If you're planning to conceive a baby, you should start monitoring emotional health and diet from 3 to 6 months ahead. That's the only way to ensure the fetus is healthy.

Advices to a mom-to-be on pre pregnancy stage:

You should schedule a comprehensive obstetrical/gynaecological check-up 6 months ahead. Consult your doctor on any issue to do with expecting a baby.

Most women don't have perfectly regular menstrual cycles. You may have to collect data for your own pattern 4 months before you get pregnant. You may plot out the most fertile period (days with highest chance of conceiving).

Advices to a dad-to-be on the preparation:

Most people think it's a women task to recuperate before getting pregnant. However a guy with poor health is unlikely to have healthy and vigorous sperms, meaning a lower chance of your wife conceiving a baby. To recuperate a guy body, you should quit smoking, drinking and eating spicy food.

Healthy diet for pregnant recipes provides a range of recipes. Both mom-to-be and dad-to-be should have eat different kinds of fresh natural food and wide range of nutrients. Example of mom-to-be should replenishing folic acid to avoid defects in a fetus nervous system. Folic acid is available from dark green vegetables, oranges, tangerines, animal liver and egg yolks. For dad-to-be, they can alleviated by eating eels, squids, sea cucumber, cuttlefish, bean curd, gingkoes as these food include the structural constituency of sperm formation.

Below is a list of before or pre pregnancy nutrition food:

1.Stew Cook with Pomelo 2.Stir-Fried Prawn with Rice Wine
3.Tu Si Zi and Oyster in Salad Dressing 4.Stir-Fried Shredded Pork with Qi Zi
5.Sea Cucumber Congee with Huai Shan 6.Radish Congee with Huai Shan and Jobs Tears
7.Sea Cucumber Congee with Qi Zi 8.Abalone Soup with Chinese Cordyceps
9.Beef Shin Soup with Dang Gui and Dan Shen 10.Stewed Chicken Soup with Deer Antler and Qi Zi
11.Stewed Quail Eggs with Qi Zi 12.Lotus Root Porridge with Huai Shan and Black Dates
13.Glutinous Rice Porridge with Black Beans and Qi Zi  

 

After we have gone through the pre pregnancy nutrition food and now would like to introduce the nutritious food during pregnancy. Most pregnant women would see the symptoms of early pregnancy (including nausea and poor appetite). Therefore, you're advised to boost your nutrient intake at this point. A balanced diet is a must including protein, calcium, vitamins A,B,C, minerals and dietary fibres. 

Below is a list of during food pregnancy:

1.Chicken Congee with Dang Shen and Du Zhong 2.Dried Duck Gizzard Congee with Dried Tangerine Peel
3.Milk Custard with Ginger Juice 4.Fish Head Soup
5.Pork Liver Soup with Spinach 6.Lean Pork Soup with Sweet Corn and Small Red Beans
7.Lean Pork Soup with Tian Ma and Gou Teng 8.Pork Liver Soup with Qi Zi
9.Black Plum Drink with Ginger and Lu Gen 10.Sang Ji Sheng Drink with Black Beans and Egg
11.Lotus Seed Congee with Mai Dong 12.Chicken Congee with Peanuts
13.Oxtail Soup with Tomato and Assorted Vegetables 14.Yellow Croaker Soup with Garlic
15.Lean Pork Soup with Walnuts and Small Red Beans 16.Lean Pork Soup with Lotus Seeds and Dried Longans
17.Fish Tail Soup with Sweet Corn and Bean Curd 18.Lean Pork Soup with White Fungus and Dried Black Mushrooms
19.Crucian Carp Soup with Small Red Beans 20.Lean Pork Soup with Watercress and Luo Han Guo
21.Tai Zi Shen Drink with Fu Shen 22.Pork Shin Soup with Apple and Almonds
23.Pork Rib Soup with Lotus Root and Dried Octupus 24.Chicken Soup with Ba Ji Tian
25.Chicken Feet Soup with Peanuts 26.Lotus Seeds Drink with Raisins, Black Beans and Egg

 

The first month after delivery is crucial to a woman's health ever after. In Chinese has long had the tradition of "The Sitting Month" which means the woman should not leave the house for a month after giving birth. This is the best time to recuperate when the body is most receptive to the nutrients and medications. Diet after pregnancy is very important, do eat more food which is easy to digest, light in flavour and beneficial in recuperation. However, avoid raw and cold food.

 

Healthy diet for pregnant do have some recipes on diet after pregnancy as below:

 
1.Pork Trotter Soup with Peanuts and Papaya 2.Muttom Soup with Dang Gui
3.Black Skinned Chicken Soup with Deer Antler 4.Stewed Chicken Soup with Rice Wine Sesame Oil and Cloud Ear Fungus
5.Stewed Chicken Soup with Dried Fish Maw and Qi Zi 6.Black Date and Dried Longan Drink with Ginger Juice and Honey
7.Malt Sweet Drink 8.Yi Mu Cao Drink with Egg
9.Pork Trotter in Sweet Vinegar with Dried Fish Maw and Eggs  

 

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