1, eat high protein food
Protein is the foundation of human life and the most basic nutrient for brain, muscles and organs, accounting for 10%-20% of total calories. For women who plan to get pregnant, the intake of protein should be increased.
High protein food: meat, fish, eggs, milk, bean products, etc.
2. Eat foods rich in calcium
Calcium is an important part of bones and teeth, and the amount needed during pregnancy is twice as much as usual. Not taking enough calcium before pregnancy is easy to cause rickets and calcium-deficient convulsions in the fetus. Pregnant women can suffer from osteomalacia and convulsions due to excessive calcium loss. If women begin to supplement calcium before pregnancy, it is good for pregnancy.
Foods rich in calcium: milk and dairy products, beans, shrimp skin, kelp, nuts, etc.
3. Eat foods rich in iron.
Iron is an important component of hemoglobin. If iron is deficient, anemia will occur. The fetus grows and develops rapidly, absorbing about 5 mg of iron every day, and the blood volume of pregnant women increases by 30% compared with that of non-pregnant women, that is, the average increase of 1500 ml of blood. If there is iron deficiency, it is easy to cause anemia in the middle and late stages of pregnant women. Iron can be stored in the body for 4 months, and it is very beneficial to start supplementing iron 3 months before pregnancy.
Iron-rich foods include: milk, pork, eggs, soybeans, seaweed, etc. You can also cook and stir-fry in an iron pan.
4. Eat foods rich in zinc
Zinc deficiency can not only delay the growth and development of human body, make people short stature, but also cause women's breasts to be undeveloped, have no menstruation, and the number of sperm in male semen is small or even no sperm. Eat more foods rich in zinc during pregnancy to increase the number of sperm or promote ovulation, thus increasing the chances of pregnancy.
Among plant foods, the ones with higher zinc content are: beans, millet, radish and Chinese cabbage; Among animal foods, oysters are the most abundant in zinc, and others such as lamb chops, chickens and sturgeons are also rich in zinc.
5, pregnancy conditioning recipes
1, turtle soup
Raw materials: a turtle, Lycium barbarum10g, sweet potato (Cornus officinalis)10g, Dioscorea opposita10g.
Production: the membrane on the turtle skin should be scalded off with boiling water and slaughtered into small pieces. Chinese medicine and turtle should be cooked together. Add some ginger and onion when cooking, and add some lard, salt and monosodium glutamate when cooking for 40 minutes.
Efficacy: increase transparent drawing and promote follicular development. Conducive to pregnancy.
2. Red yam
Ingredients: 300 grams of yam and 50 grams of brown sugar.
Production: first peel the yam, wash it and cut it into pieces: then pour the yam pieces into a pot with cold water to cook, take them out and soak them in cold water. After the brown sugar is dissolved, add water into the pot, boil it, and let it cool. Drain the yam blocks and put them into a bowl, then add the cold brown sugar juice.
Efficacy: Yam can tonify kidney qi, strengthen the body, invigorate qi and replenish essence, which is very suitable for women to eat before conception.
3, Yimu Angelica boiled eggs
Raw materials: motherwort 60g, angelica sinensis15g, egg150g.
Production: remove impurities from motherwort, wash it with Angelica sinensis in water, fry it in three bowls of clear water to one bowl, and filter it with gauze: cook the eggs, shell them, prick several holes with toothpicks, and add medicinal juice to cook for half an hour.
Efficacy: regulating menstruation and enriching blood, suitable for preparing for pregnancy.
6. Taboo items
Avoid eating too much sugar.
If you eat high-sugar food regularly, it will often cause disorder of sugar metabolism and even become a potential diabetic.
Avoid spicy food
Pepper, pepper, pepper and other condiments are irritating, and eating more can cause constipation in normal people. If expectant mothers who plan to get pregnant eat a lot of this kind of food, they will also have digestive dysfunction. Therefore, it is recommended that you avoid eating such foods as much as possible.
Avoid eating monosodium glutamate
The component of monosodium glutamate is sodium glutamate. Eating too much can affect the absorption of zinc, which is not conducive to the development of fetal nervous system.
Avoid eating all kinds of "polluted" food.
Food will go through many necessary links from the production of raw materials to the whole process before eating, and may be polluted to varying degrees, which will bring harm to people's health. Therefore, we should try to choose fresh natural food and avoid eating foods containing additives, pigments and preservatives; Vegetables should be thoroughly cleaned, and fruits should be peeled before eating to avoid pesticide pollution.
Avoid eating pickled food.
Although this kind of food is delicious, it contains nitrite, phenylpropyl pyrene and so on, which is very harmful to the health.
Avoid eating canned food.
Additives and preservatives contained in canned food are risk factors for teratogenesis and abortion.
Avoid eating ginseng and longan.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that most pregnant women are deficient in yin and blood, and eating people will cause excessive qi and yin consumption, which will aggravate early pregnancy reaction, edema and hypertension. Longan is warm and helps yang, and pregnant women are prone to blood and abortion after eating it. Therefore, it is recommended that you consider carefully before eating.
Avoid drinking alcohol
Alcohol is an important factor leading to fetal malformation and mental retardation.
People with allergic constitution should eat sensitized food carefully.
People have not paid attention to the influence of eating possibly allergic food on the fetus, but in fact, allergic food is likely to cause abortion, premature delivery, fetal malformation and other malignant consequences.