Eating for Pregnancy: The Essential Nutrition Guide and Cookbook for Today’s Mothers-to-be

This book offers essential nutrition advice for a healthy, happy pregnancy. Every pregnant woman recognizes that what she eats, drinks, and does with her body directly affects the baby developing within her. Yet mothers-to-be - between juggling work, other children, and their many other responsibilities - often don’t have the time they’d like to devote to their nutrition. Now, Eating for Pregnancy addresses the nutritional needs of pregnant women today, helping them navigate through frozen-food aisles and prepared-food sections and to create healthy, easy-to-prepare homemade meals.Their more than 150 recipes - more than 25 brand-new to this edition - organized into six main sections, are high in vitamins, iron, calcium, protein, and fibre, and moderate in amounts of fat, sodium, and sugar. Each recipe highlights the nutritional benefits for mother and baby and includes complete nutritional breakdowns and meal-planning advice; many offer suggestions for substitutions and other time-saving shortcuts. Eating for Pregnancy also caters to women with gestational diabetes with diabetic tips and both the ADA exchange system and the newer carbohydrate-counting system. An expanded vegetarian - and now also vegan-chapter offers essential advice to pregnant vegetarians/vegans along with inspiring recipes.