Pregnancy can be a very special time for a mother. Along with the responsibility of shaping a child’s health and personality comes the prospective exhilaration of watching the child develop and grow. Producing a healthy baby is not just a matter of luck. True, some aspects of foetal and newborn health are beyond a parent’s control. Maternal health is complex, influenced by various genetic, social and economic factors, infections and environmental conditions, many of which affect the foetal growth.
Pregnancy
Is a greatest physiological stress but not a pathological state
Is most common major alteration of normal biological life process
Is an altered physiological and metabolic change in mother because of growing foetus. Therefore there is altered nutritional requirements.
There is a need for specific health and dietary care.
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