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How much should I put on weight during pregnancy?

 weight gain during pregnancy

There are many urban beliefs about weight gain during pregnancy, and few are true. Therefore, it is worth some clarification on how much weight you gain during pregnancy to know for sure how well you eat and how much you should stop eating, given the excesses that may lead to weight gain beyond what is due .

First you have to take into account the weight before pregnancy. Being very thin, normal weight or overweight or obese if you had a direct impact on how much you eat and the effects that food (or over feeding) will produce on you.

Then move on to the concrete. If you were underweight before becoming pregnant recommended weight gain between 12 and 18 kilograms. If your weight was located in the normal range, you get fat no less than eleven and not more than fifteen kilograms. If you were overweight you will be among of six to eleven pounds, and if you were obese need not spend six kilograms.

Pregnancy is not a time when you should lose weight, it will occupy after delivery. During pregnancy it is important not to exceed the fixed increase, it will be gradual and it’s you who controls what. Consult your doctor to get professional guarantee on weight gain during pregnancy, and watch your health and your baby.

Caries and Pregnancy

tooth decayTooth decay is the disease most often affects the oral cavity, so that is one of the most studied by specialists in dentistry. During pregnancy are a common ailment.

Its incidence caused from discomfort in the early stages until mutilation with serious psychological and aesthetic consequences, in terms of tooth loss in more advanced cases. What to do in this situation? Prevention is still the keyword.

Once installed, the cavities, the action is to treat it. Then, it is essential to find a good dentist, who will establish a recovery of the affected tooth, while providing the necessary guidance on another issue that may occur during pregnancy, which is the gingival bleeding.

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