A quiz to find out how to eat healthily in pregnancy and when breastfeeding. What foods should you eat to stay well and help your baby grow.
Prevent miscarriage
Help the baby develop and grow
Prevent birth defects
This is a good guide for eating in pregnancy
It means you should eat twice as much as normal in pregnancy
Is now an out of date view of how much to eat.
About a stone
As much as she likes
About 2 stone
Rickets
Miscarriage
Neural tube defects (eg spina bifida)
Make the mother's bones healthy
Make the baby's bones and teeth
Prevent rickets
She will become anaemic
Her baby will not grow
She will not be able to breastfeed
Calcium
Vitamin D
Iron
Iron and vitamin B12
Calcium
Vitamin D
She should not worry as she can lose it after
She puts her baby at risk of defects
She is at risk of high blood pressure
To make them taste better
To prevent food poisoning
To help the baby grow
A tuna sandwich
A bar of chocolate
A runny boiled egg and toast
1000 calories a day
400 - 700 calories a day
100 - 200 calories a day
Eat your usual diet and when hungry
Be very careful what you eat in case the baby gets colic
Avoid spicy food
Will give your baby wind
Will increase your milk supply
May make you put on weight