When pregnant, the nutrition needs increase at least 25%.

Nutrition plays an important part in pregnancy because it needs to meet the needs of both pregnant woman and her fetus. In pregnancy, the nutrition needs increase at least 25%. Therefore, it’s essential that pregnant women have adequate diets to be healthy and have enough milk to feed babies after pregnancy.

Women need a great calcium supply in pregnancy.

Calcium is an important mineral and one of nutrients that are required for the support of fetal developments. It’s essential for growth of bone and maintaining the health of bones and teeth. It also plays an important role in clotting, sending neural signals, muscle spasm, hormone developments and fetal heartbeat stableness.

About two-thirds of the calcium amount is sent to fetuses from the 30th week of pregnancy. The calcium amount that is sent to fetuses is taken from the foods that pregnant women absorbed and from the pregnant women’s reserves. Children that are born by women provided with the essential amount of calcium have the higher lever of bone mineral than the ones who aren’t.

According to a research that is carried out in 2010 and published in “Nutrition Journal”, pregnant women’s calcium deficiency have an important role in the development of fetal cardiovascular diseases and the increase of newborn hypertension.

Besides, calcium can reduce pregnant women’s spasms. Latest researches in over the world also recorded the effects of calcium supply in reducing the risk of the gestation blood pressure increase.

Calcium is an important mineral and one of nutrients that are required for the support of fetal developments.

If pregnant women receive low calcium supplies, the fetal calcium supply will be taken from pregnant women’s bones, which leads to osteoporosis in pregnant women. The essential calcium supplies for women at reproductive ages are around 1,000-2,000 mg; for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding are 1,500mg.

The needs will be higher if women have biparous or trigeminal pregnancy. If pregnant women are lack of calcium, their bodies be weakened; they’ll have weak teeth and regular cramps. In the worse situation, it will cause fetal malnutrition, affect future baby’s height, make them have week bones, large fontanelle, easily startled when sleeping, cry at night, have sleeping difficulties and sweat a lot.

In contradistinction to calcium supply, the main vitamin D supply is not from nutrition. Despite the fact that there’re lots of foods that are rich in vitamin, such as milk and milk products, fish (especially fish liver and fat), egg yolk… it’s in the sunshine.

The main vitamin D supply of pregnant women is sunshine.

Sunshine makes the vitamin D precursor in the skin turn to vitamin. Being under the sunshine for 15 minutes several times a week in the early morning (06:30-07:30) can provide the essential amount of vitamin D for the body.

In one word, calcium is necessary for pregnancy and breastfeeding. Providing enough calcium is the important way to help fetuses develop healthily and reduce the harmful risks that affect pregnant women’s health.