NUTRITION ADVOCATE

You will agree with me that one of the things women look forward to is the time when they get pregnant and give birth to their own baby. But when that time comes, are they well prepared for it? How prepared are you nutritionally for the time of pregnancy and childbirth? This is so important because adequate nutrition before and during pregnancy have a great potential for a long term health impact on the baby to be born. Sadly, It has been observed that many expectant mothers do not put into consideration their nutritional state before getting pregnant. This as a matter of fact, has a lot of health risk on the unborn child. It can even bring about undernutrition in infants. Women with low birth weight and poor nutritional status prior to pregnancy usually give birth to low birth weight infants, or have premature baby, infections and anaemia. Also, overweight women are more likely to have foetal death, diabetes, hypertensive disorders and labour abnormalities. So, if you're a woman a...