In addition, a mother also often suffer from anemia or deficiency of red blood. As a result supply of food brought by the red blood is reduced, and the automatic also inhibited the growth of your fetus.
To prevent this and to be born a healthy baby, you need to eat nutritious foods, such as high protein foods, vegetables, and fruits. High carbohydrate foods that are usually less advisable because it can cause the fetus is too large. In addition you are also advised to take vitamins, like A, C, D, E, and K. Also other nutrients that are important to your fetal health. Among other things, folic acid or folic acid, and EFA (Essential Fatty Acids) or essential fatty acids.
Folic acid, from various studies of interventions proven to reduce the risk of neural tube defects (NTD) or neural tube defects. NTDs are serious birth defects that occur in the brain or spinal cord. Broadly speaking there are three types of NTD, ie Anensefalus, Spina Bifida and Enchephaloce. In the United States estimated 4000 births each year are infected with NTD.
From the number of infected was approximately 2500 babies born with neural tube defects. By taking folic acid this condition can be reduced. This is evident from studies of several countries. As in Britain, NTD type of Spina Bifida than 215 incidents in 1972 decreased to only 38 events in 1992 for per 100 thousand births. Anensefalus also declined from 149 in 1972 to 29 in 1992 per 100 thousand births.
In addition, KL Mahan and S. Stump Escott in the book Food, Nutrition and Diet Therapy said folic acid during pregnancy contributes to the development of red blood cells. That is to prevent anemia.
In pregnant women need additional folic acid is as much as 50% compared to normal women (total of 600 ug DFE Folate per day).
Actually, folic acid is almost there on all kinds of food, especially in fresh green leafy vegetables (like spinach), liver, yeast, oranges, beans, potatoes and cereals. Unfortunately, folic acid which includes members of the vitamin B complex (vitamin B9) is also called folacine, easily damaged by heating during food processing. So the effort to get it in the form of milk or a specific vitamin needs to be done, especially 2-3 before and during pregnancy.
