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01-10-2020
Column: The Mountain Midwife - EATING FOR TWO
Column: The Mountain Midwife - EATING FOR TWO
As a pregnant woman, your body is working hard to grow a baby and mindful eating is important to help support the growth and development of your child. Improving or optimising the quality of foods you eat is more important than increasing quantity. Before you become pregnant it is ideal to be in the best physical condition you can be.
Regular exercise and eating healthily not only assists with fertility, but it also improves long term outcomes for mothers, and helps avoid some risks that can occur with either too little or too much weight gain.
All of this is not really news. Most people are aware that a healthy lifestyle reduces risks of negative health outcomes and the key to healthy living is not in fad diets or celebrity ab workouts, but instead in healthy eating, exercise, and adequate rest. However, not everyone is aware of some of the risks specific to pregnancy of too little or too much weight gain. If you are underweight before becoming pregnant or gain too little weight in pregnancy you can be at i

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