During pregnancy, it is important and healthy to gain a little weight for both the  mother and the child. A steady gain in body mass is normal. However, a pregnant  woman must ensure that she does not get obese during the pregnancy. This can be  prevented with the intake of a balanced and a nutrient-rich diet during that time  which is provided by our diet. Our diet ensures to supply your body with the requisite balanced diet. In order to not gain much weight during pregnancy, or get obese, our dietitian render you with a diet that concentrates on catering your hunger with small and frequent meals that are rich in proteins, minerals and carbohydrates. Our diet also includes snacks that are healthy.

We all know that during pregnancy, snack craving cannot be avoided. Therefore, our diet provides you with snacks that are low in fat and sugar, which helps you satisfy your urge and hunger, without hampering your baby or your body weight. It suggests the intake of low fat yogurt, vegetable salads, fresh fruit juices, vegetable soup. Our diet ensures that the food it suggests to a pregnant woman avoids those that are high in sugar, salt and fat content. It restricts the intake of products that causes stomach problems like loose motion or constipation and substitute them with foods that are rich in iron and fiber. Thus, it’s also important to mention that the diet provided by our dietitian can help you control your weight gain too. As our diet is rich in fruits and vegetables, it does not add excess weight to your body and allows you to live a happy, nourishing and healthy pregnancy.

Our Experts a Mohan’s Nutri Care Diet Clinic Recommend  When you are pregnant, you will probably feel more hungry than you usually do and often, it’s found that people suggest a pregnant woman to eat for two. But, this must not be done. Yes, you must eat healthy, but not for two. In order to have a healthy pregnancy, an additional amount of 300 calorie is needed on a daily basis and you get this additional amount from your balanced diet itself. The common problem that a women goes through during her pregnancy is that of weight gain or obesity. Obesity, is found as one of the main health concern among pregnant women.

Often, having higher body weight or BMI ( Body Mass Index) not only endanger the mother’s health, but also causes a threat to the forthcoming child. It increases the risk of miscarriage, still birth, recurring miscarriage, high blood pressure, organ damage-often liver and kidneys, sleep apnea, cardiac dysfunction, and also the need for a C-Section and its complications.

In the baby, it can cause birth defects, childhood asthma, childhood obesity, pre-mature birth or macrosomia. So, a woman must ensure that she gains only the required amount of weight during her pregnancy to avoid the above mentioned risks and complications. The recommended weight gain during pregnancy must range between 11kgs to 16kgs for a normal woman. But, if the woman is already obese , she must focus and ensure a weight loss so that she could deliver a healthy baby along with being herself healthy.