What To Expect: Eating Well When You're Expecting ) Author: Heidi Eisenberg Murkoff | Language: English | ISBN:
0606316442 | Format: PDF
What To Expect: Eating Well When You're Expecting ) Description
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Featuring recipes to promote fetal development and maternal well-being, an updated edition of the guide suggests a diet plan comprised of unprocessed foods and includes information on nutrition, food safety, and more.
- Series: What to Expect (Workman Publishing)
- Library Binding: 470 pages
- Publisher: Turtleback (October 1, 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0606316442
- ISBN-13: 978-0606316446
- Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Wow -- what a great book!!! I'm newly pregnant and I really want to make sure I'm eating good food for my baby, especailly since I'm so nauseous all the time. I saw this book in the bookstore and bought it... and am I glad I did. It's packed with info about nutrition during pregnancy. It's funny and it's a really easy to read book -- plus it doesn't make you feel bad if you miss a few days of eating healthy or if you eat some unhealthy food every once in a while.
The first chapter tells you why it's important to eat nutritious food. The second chapter is so great because it goes through all the pregnancy symptoms and gives advice on exactly what to do for them in terms of food. Too nauseaous to eat (my problem) -- here are some tips. What to do about the food cravings (especially when you're craving something totally unhealthy). But the best thing is that it doesn't make you feel guilty if you do crave ice cream or cake or whatever. It recognizes that sometimes the only thing I can eat is potato chips, and it doesn't make me feel like I'm hurting my baby! But it still gives you the ideal of what you should eat (there's a really funny section later on called "ideal...get real" that totally gets this point across. Plus it makes you realize you probably are eating healthy for the most aprt anyway). I love that.
The next chapter goes through weight gain and the pregnancy diet telling you what you should be eating each day. The best thing is that the book has tons of lists of different foods -- and the serving amounts -- so figuring out how much to eat is no big deal. Then there's a great chapter on being an expectant gourmet. It goes through all the different types of food that you can eat while you're pregnant. I learned so much from that chapter.
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