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During pregnancy, what you eat has a huge impact on the health and welfare of your baby. The overall health and well being of your baby depends on what you eat before (immediately before conception), during and after pregnancy. It is therefore very important to eat healthy before, during and immediately after pregnancy for a healthy baby. Research has shown that maternal nutrition is a major determinant of infant health, as well as susceptibility to disease during adulthood. Improved maternal nutrition during pregnancy leads to healthy babies and healthy adults. The best thing is to make healthy eating lifestyle, rather than just eating healthy during pregnancy. A healthy diet during pregnancy should be part of your lifestyle.

Pre-conceptual nutrition facts:

Organogenesis (development of different organs in humans) takes place during the first days of pregnancy. Human organs begin to develop as early as third week after conception and 55 th day after conception human organs begin to develop. In fact the organs can begin to develop before the woman learns she is pregnant. It is therefore important to plan pregnancies and healthy nutrition to make sure that your baby is completely free of nutritional deficiencies. For example, deficiency of folic acid (a B vitamin) during organogenesis may lead to neural tube defects (like spina bifida and other neural tube deformation), which in later life leads to many neurological problems . As mentioned above, the development of different organs in humans can be started before the mother knows she is pregnant. Therefore, it is very important to have diet rich in folic acid pre-conceptual period (because if not planned, you can get pregnant at any time and folic acid supplementation after diagnosis of pregnancy can prevent tube defects neural).

It is common practice in the medical field to provide folic acid supplements after pregnancy is diagnosed. This practice is questioned by many experts, such as organogenesis, usually begins before the diagnosis of pregnancy. Since pregnancy is usually diagnosed 20 days after conception and organogenesis begins before (for the 3rd week after conception). But it remains a common practice, with the idea that something is better than nothing, ie folic acid supplements may be useful in preventing birth defects and will not hurt the baby or the mother and folic acid is very cheap.