Question

There are numerous things that pregnant women should and should not do to have a healthy baby. Pick one and explain why it is so important.

Answer 1

Every mother wants a healthy baby, there are numerous things that are accept and non accept in pregnancy stage.

pregnancy period is a wonderful experience for a woman, in which there are certain habits of mother which are beneficial for foetus and sometime harmful for foetus.

This list of pregnancy do's and don't can shed some list on what you should worry about and what you really should not.

1. Do take a multivitamin.

2. don't smoke

3. do you get lots of sleep

4. don't drink alcohol.

5. do workout.

6. don't eat raw meat.

7. duet seafood.

8 . don't eat deli meat.

9. do have sex.

10. don't drink a lot of caffeine.

11. do get a flu shot.

12. don't sitting and stand long time period.

13 take adequate fluid.

14 . don't take stress.

15. avoid excessive physical workout.

16. routinely visit for antenatal check up.

17. eat adequate fibre diet.

18. do not take medicine without prescription.

19. avoid x-ray CT scan and other radiographic procedure.

20. maintain hygiene.

--- Alcohol consumption in pregnancy. =

alcohol is a teratogenic substance. teratogenic substance are those, they are taken by mother but may produce a lethal effect on foetus.

alcohol in the mother blood passes to the baby via umbilical cord. drinking alcohol during pregnancy can increase the the cause of miscarriage, lifelong physical abnormality, behaviour disability, intellectual disabilities in the baby.

these all disability is known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

The effect of alcohol are include.

- growth problem.children who were exposed to alcohol before they were born may be smaller than other children of the same age.

- facial abnormalities

-irritable baby.

birth defects

-problem bonding or feeding as a newborn.

-a child may have small head flat face and narrow opening for instance this gets more obvious by age 2 or 3 year.

-may cause mental retardation.

- mark behaviour changes.

HEAVY ALCOHOL USE IN PREGNANCY CAN ALSO LEAD TO MISCARRIAGE STILLBIRTH FOR A BABY BEING BORN EARLY (premature)