Should pregnant women abandon their holidays for the sake of the health of future children? Pregnancy is not a disease, but a special state of mind and body. Of course, during pregnancy, you need to monitor your diet. But at the same time, a holiday is a joy among everyday worries. The best cure for stress. Even a very "cheerful" festive feast for pregnant women will not do any harm if you follow certain precautions.
If you are visiting.
Any feast is rich in a variety of various dishes and drinks. Sweet smoked products, grilled chicken , pickled mushrooms and an unforgettable salad with olivier. It's sad to watch other people eat food while you poke a curd over a spoon. But do not be depressed! It is clear that an interesting position requires you to adhere to a certain diet. But there are no rules without exceptions. The main thing to remember, at a festive feast for pregnant women is not a ban, but a reasonable restriction. When everything is banned, you want the most desirable. Why swallow drool? If the condition allows, you can risk trying the most delicious - but little by little.
Before the festive feast a visit to a good meal of fruit. Pears and apples are especially good. "Deceive" the stomach can and bran, brewed in warm water. This will reduce your appetite before a festive dinner. Otherwise, you will not give a pass to the hostess or waitress. And eat all the dishes within reach. It is also recommended to drink before the feast a glass of still water - half an hour before the banquet. It will also dull the feeling of hunger. In addition, will contribute to the good work of your intestines.
When the guests sat down and after the first toast began to eat, you too do not waste time. But pay attention: what is cooked from and what is tucked. Start the feast with fresh vegetables, seasoned with vegetable oil (ideally - olive), and not mayonnaise. You do not have to eat all the food at a time. Eat slowly. You are entitled for a compelling reason - pregnancy - to give up the third hot dish and pancakes with ten different fillings. Preference for dishes of lentils, beans, bright yellow and dark green vegetables. Such as pumpkin, green sweet pepper, broccoli, spinach and so on. But remember, sauces and spicy seasonings are contraindicated for pregnant women.
If you are drawn to smoked sausage, then you can be pampered with just a few slices. Do not at all seize it with potatoes. The best place for a garnish is cooked vegetables or rice. These products have a wrapping effect. And the harmful substances contained in smoked products will come naturally.
The most difficult thing is to resist the flour and sweet. The future mother does not need to get involved in cakes and cakes, buns and pies with a variety of fillings. In these dishes there are refined carbohydrates. They participate in the washing out of calcium from the bones, which can lead to serious complications. Also remember that excess calories are deposited in the tissues of not only the mother, but also the fetus. For pregnant women ideal dainties at the festive table will be desserts from dried fruits, all kinds of jellies, soufflé and fruit salads.
If some dish seemed doubtful, bitter, or simply did not go - do not eat it out of courtesy to the hostess. A luxuriant bouquet of symptoms of food poisoning, along with toxicosis, will please neither you nor the owners. If you want to please hospitable hosts, just do not leave the plate empty. Put a slide of salad and quietly enjoy communication with neighbors on the table. If you are persistently offered to try an unhealthy dish, refuse, referring to an allergy. This works more convincingly than the hints of a half-whisper of pregnancy.
Make breaks between meals is useful even to peasants with a three-day stubble. What can I say about pregnant women! Try to sit at the table less. During the general "smoke breaks" stroll along the fresh air. If you are tired of the noise of general fun, ask the owners to arrange you to relax in a separate room. Normal owners will never deny you this.
How about a drop of wine?
It is often possible to see a picture when a pregnant woman is persuaded to "sip" a little alcohol. Everyone in chorus is assured that there will be no harm. How to know. The impact of alcoholic beverages on the fetus depends largely on the characteristics of a particular mother, or rather her body. Every organism has its own reaction to alcohol. Its ability to process alcohol. This may depend on the condition of the internal organs, the genotype of the fetus, possible harmful habits, the nature of nutrition, the duration of pregnancy. Obviously, to expose the future child to even a minimal risk is not worth it. Therefore, we should give up even light champagne. You can quench your thirst with simple mors or mineral water without gases.
If you know in advance about the festive feast, grab some non-alcoholic wine. This will not arouse suspicion among particularly suspicious guests. You will feel "at ease".
If you are the hostess of a festive feast.
The best holiday table (for you) will be the one that you organize yourself. Then you do not have to choose dishes all evening, counting, they are useful or not. Make a list of dishes in advance. So you do not get confused how much and what products to buy. Feel free to take the lead in the process. Do not forget that you should only guide. Run around the shops trust the people close to you. The same applies to washing floors and dishes, cleaning vegetables, cutting meat, preparing and serving the table. At the feast you must be full of strength and health.
At pregnancy, taste sensations and addictions change very often. A heavily salted dish may seem slightly salted. The taste of familiar products may seem strange and quite unusual. This is due to changes in acidity in the stomach, with a shortage of certain substances that are intensively absorbed by the fetus. Considering this, you can please yourself with your favorite dishes, the taste and quality of which you like at the moment.
Useful - not useful.
Let's start with canned products. Pregnant women are not recommended for consumption. Also, the maximum consumption of spicy and fatty foods should be minimized. This will make you happy with your liver. With increased pressure, edema, avoid pickles and smoked products, which are rich in every festive feast.
Take it responsibly to the preparation of healthy dishes. If you already season salads with oil, then certainly olive. It is interesting to add yogurt, lemon juice, "liquid" cottage cheese with herbs. For you, meat assortment is desirable from baked and boiled meat. The table from this will not become poorer. Imagine: chicken fillet, turkey breast, jellied tongue, beef and young veal. It sounds delicious. This is much more original than the usual sausages and ham, it is not known what made.
Hot dishes: Fish and meat should be baked in foil, with a side dish of vegetables and greens. When cooking veal for flavor, you can grease the foil with a clove of garlic. And the meat itself season with soy sauce. A stunning smell will smash the guests on the spot! For you and the guests is especially useful any fatty fish . To maximally preserve all vitamins and trace elements, fish should be cooked for a couple. And to increase appetite, sprinkle them with lemon juice and herbs. The color will be elegant, but the taste is wonderful.
Dessert: If cooking dishes is the most useful, then as a dessert, cook the baked apples. Depending on your taste, they can be stuffed with marmalade, forest berries, honey, nuts, cottage cheese. Not inferior to the usefulness of apples and boiled in syrup with cinnamon pears, stuffed with cottage cheese. Just do not remove the pear tails, so much prettier. To impress guests can be berry soufflé, milk and fruit jelly fantasies. As an ornament, the usual chocolate can be replaced with hematogen. Add dried apricots and prunes.
Do not drink carbonated drinks, whether it's children's champagne or banal lemonade. Carbon dioxide increases the volume of the stomach, which is fraught for a pregnant woman. To quench your thirst, small-sweet compotes and fruit drinks are perfect. For aesthetes, non-alcoholic wine can be recommended. This is the real grape wine with all the usefulness. Only alcohol in them is removed by a cunning way at the last stage of production.
Small tweaks: If you are not sure of your resistance to food, and the duration of your pregnancy allows you to work around the house - take care of guests for yourself. Running with dishes from the kitchen to the table and back, you will not have time to peacefully eat off at the table.
What threatens overeating.
"The more you eat, the sooner you'll sleep." And consequently less time will remain for the celebration.
- Excess food inevitably leads to excess weight.
- The older generation assures that the mother should eat for two. Maybe fifty years ago this was actual. But now, with an abundance of synthetic products, overeating can lead to various complications during pregnancy and childbirth. The reason is the overweight of the newborn.
- Everything is good in moderation. Abuse of even the most useful products can lead to allergic reactions in you and in the future for your child.
If during a holiday feast you have allowed yourself a little extra, do not panic. A contrast shower and exercise for pregnant women will bring you back to life after a possible overeating.