Category Archives: Pregnancy Nutrition

Nutritional supplements have become a fixed feature of prenatal care in the United States. In its 1990 report, the Institute of Medicine concluded that, except for iron, all nutritional needs of most pregnant women can be met through diet. Since … Continue reading →

We don’t know all the ways a fetus may be affected by what its mother eats. We do know, from studies of babies born during famine in world war II, that adequate nutrition, or at least an adequate number of … Continue reading →