A set of weight during pregnancy is caused by physiology, and nevertheless, this process cannot be neglected. From the medical point of view there are certain borders which characterize a normal set of weight. Sometimes the pregnant woman should use the considerable efforts to keep within them.
Instruction
1. Begin day with weighing. Get up on scales after visit of a toilet, approximately at the same time, till a breakfast. It is desirable to hold scales on a certain place as roughnesses of a floor can influence result.
2. Know that normal gain of weight in the first trimester of pregnancy – only 1.5-2 kg; in the second - 0.5 kg a week, only 6-7 kg; in the third – only 4-5 kg. As for the third trimester, there are features here: on month7-8 weight has to to accrue on 0.5 kg a week, and on the 9th month a week to decrease by 0.5 kg. It is important that increase in weight was smooth, but not spasmodic. For descriptive reasons it is useful to make the schedule of gain of weight.
3. Consider that small deviations from the schedule described above are norm. In practice it is difficult to keep within ideal theoretical model. At the same time the serious shortage of weight, as well as its solid gain, have to cause the request for consultation to the gynecologist observing you.
4. Avoid consumption of salty and preserved foods, smoked products – they detain liquid in an organism, can provoke the latent hypostases.
5. Refuse the high-calorific refined products in favor of healthy food to which organic vegetables and fruit, eggs in limited quantity, low-fat meat and surely fish belong. Replace sweets with prunes and dates. Candied fruits are not recommended because they contain a large number of sugar.
6. Try to minimize consumption of food after 18-19 hours. At this time the organism is preparing for sleeping, exchange processes in it slow down and the arrived energy often is transferred to fat stocks.
7. Keep physical activity, comfortable for your situation. Of course, it is not necessary to jump and run. Choose safe gymnastics, try to go more on foot. Remarkably, if you have an opportunity to visit the pool.
8. Be not fond of diets at all and if "pulls" you on some product, do not refuse to yourself pleasure to eat it. Popular belief that flavoring addictions of the pregnant woman are dictated by requirements of the growing fruit. Only the observing doctor can appoint a diet.