Nutritional Supplements for Pregnant Women
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 that report, scientists have discovered the importance of folic acid in preventing neural tube defects […]
Nutrition During Pregnancy
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 daily calories, is important for the fetus to grow to an optimal size. In early […]