5 Foods to avoid during pregnancy

Pregnancy is a miracle and one of the most sensitive times in a woman’s life. Having a healthy diet, proper rest, stress-free time, and staying happy is so important because everything you feel will affect your baby inside your womb. If you are happy and eat a balanced diet, it will help your baby and you will have a healthy and strong baby.

Here is a list of 5 foods to avoid during your pregnancy.

Moms who smoke, eat junk foods and don’t take care of their health during pregnancy give birth to babies with low immunity. So choice is yours!

There are so many things to avoid during pregnancy but right now we will talk about just foods. I remember when I was pregnant for the first time, around 10 years back, my mother used to tell me about all that stuff that I am writing down now. It helped me a lot.

I want to share this so that every pregnant woman out who is confused about what not to eat during pregnancy and the best foods to eat when pregnant.

Don’t forget to share these foods to avoid during pregnancy and why you shouldn’t eat them.

HIGH MERCURY FISH

We all know that mercury is toxic. It can affect your nervous system, kidneys and immunity in bad ways. Polluted seas are high in mercury so marine fish is high in mercury and thus not good for your pregnant body. It’s advised to keep the intake of fish from 1 to 2 servings per month. It is a food to avoid during early pregnancy.

You must avoid too much intake of these fish types:

Shark

King mackerel

Swordfish

Tuna

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UNDERCOOKED/ PROCESSED/ RAW MEAT

Having undercooked meat is one of the foods to avoid during pregnancy as it may increase the risk of bacterial infection. You definitely don’t want that if you are pregnant as anything that affects you will affect your unborn baby too. In some cases, eating undercooked food resulted in still birth and epilepsy.

The reason being when you cook the meat from outside, the bacteria may stay inside the meat that’s not cooked properly. Rib eye, Sirloins and Tenderloins from veal and lamb are safe to consume but properly cooked.

RAW EGGS

Another food to avoid while pregnant is eggs. Eating raw eggs can give you salmonella infections that are not good for your baby growing inside you. You may feel cramps, vomiting, diarrhea, and fever after having an infection. So its better to be safe and not eat raw eggs. Avoid these during your pregnancy:

Cake icings made from raw eggs

Poached eggs

Slightly scrambled eggs

Mayonnaise that contain raw eggs

Egg salad dressing

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TOO MUCH CAFFEINE

When you are pregnant, you have to control your caffeine intake. Be it in the form of tea, coffee, sodas, cocoa, or anything else that is caffeinated. It’s not good for your placenta and baby and it is among the foods to avoid when pregnant. It’s suggested to keep the coffee intake from 2 to 3 cups a day or even lesser.

UNPASTEURIZED CHEESE AND MILK

Raw milk contains Salmonella, E.coli, Campylobacter and Listeria. These bacteria may cause life threatening infections that may prove fatal for your baby as well as for you. Pasteurization is an effective way to kill any of these bacteria types without harming the nutritional value of dairy products.

So these were the foods to avoid during pregnancy. Apart from that, too much sugar, junk food, smoking, or drinking should be stopped too. It’s best to have a healthy diet because everyone wants a healthy baby and to get that, you have to work a little harder. Children come first!

So what to eat during Pregnancy?

Here is a list of foods to eat during pregnancy:

Oatmeal

Avocados

Beans/lentils

Cooked eggs

Nuts

Cooked red meat

Green vegetables

Berries

Bananas

Dry apricots

Chicken

Try to add these healthy foods in your diet when you are pregnant. They are good for your health and for your baby too.

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Saima Nadeem

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