The dangers of overeating during pregnancy

In life, many people want to enhance the nutritional content of their bodies. It does not mean that the better they eat, the more they will eat. Excessive eating can ensure good health. Especially now, many pregnant women, after becoming pregnant, rely on the fact that they are the key figures of the family and start to eat a lot. In the end, they find that they often harm their bodies due to overeating. So how harmful is overeating for pregnant women?

Eating too much can also harm the fetus. First, it is easy to have dystocia. The heavier the fetus, the higher the dystocia rate. Secondly, it is easy to have a giant fetus (weighing more than 4.5 kilograms), which will prolong the labor process and easily affect the fetal heartbeat and cause suffocation. After birth, the massive proliferation of fat cells during the fetal period causes lifelong obesity. Therefore, obesity should be prevented during the fetal period. Third, the perinatal fetal mortality rate is high. According to statistics, when a pregnant woman's weight increases by more than 13 kg, the perinatal fetal mortality rate is 2-5 times higher than that of ordinary pregnant women.

Therefore, pregnant women should arrange their diet reasonably and avoid overeating endlessly. "Wan's Women's Medicine" says: "After a woman becomes pregnant, she should avoid eating too much, eat light food, avoid cold and heat, and always get pure air to nourish the fetus, so that the fetus will be healthy and the child will be born without disease."

Normally, after a woman becomes pregnant, she needs 2,500 kcal of calories per day, which is 500 kcal more than usual. Therefore, in the middle and late stages of pregnancy, about 400-500 grams of staple food per day, 250 ml of milk or 500 ml of soy milk, 1-2 eggs, 100-150 grams of fish, shrimp, and meat, 100-150 grams of beans and soy products, 500-1000 grams of fresh vegetables, and an appropriate amount of fruit can meet the needs of pregnant women. Try to combine coarse and fine grains, both meat and vegetarian food, with a wide variety of varieties and appropriate food intake. The key is to have a balanced combination to prevent picky eating and avoid excessive eating.

The best way to determine whether a pregnant woman is overnourished is to observe her weight gain. Under normal circumstances, it is best to gain 0.75-1.5 kg of weight in the early stages of pregnancy, and then gain 0.4 kg per week. By the time the pregnancy is full term, the total weight gain should be 12.5 kg.

If you find that your weight is gaining too quickly, you should adjust your diet structure in time, appropriately limit staple foods, eat less sweets and fatty foods, and increase your activity level appropriately in the late pregnancy. Please eat appropriately and in moderation based on the specific circumstances of your pregnancy.