13 Foods To Eat & 9 Foods To Avoid When Getting Pregnant You and your partner have decided to start trying for a baby! That’s great and you probably already know about how to chart your cycles, and you may have already visited your doctor because that is what must be done in order to properly attempt to achieve a healthy pregnancy. You may have already been told to be sure to get yourself to an acceptable weight and have a BMI of anywhere between 18 to 25, though you can still safely conceive if you have a BMI from 25 to 30 as well. However, you have to be cautious if you are overweight and trying to get pregnant. Being mildly overweight is not a huge concern, but if your BMI is closer to 30, you could be at a higher risk of ending up with complications like gestational diabetes or pre-eclampsia, or hyperemesis gravidarum, which is excessive nausea and vomiting. Being obese puts you at a higher risk of ending up with these complications.
Now, this leads to the topic of what to eat as well as what not to eat while you are trying to get pregnant, and while you are already pregnant. You must know this for several reasons. The first reason is that when you are trying to conceive, certain foods will help you get to a healthy weight and help your hormone levels level out so you will have healthy ovulatory cycles- which is what you need in order to properly conceive! The same foods will also be very good for your unborn baby’s development once pregnancy is attained. And we will also go through the list of foods that are not safe to eat while trying to conceive and at the same time to not eat while you are pregnant because it will have a negative impact on the development of the growing fetus. We will also talk about what foods that do not have to be avoided completely but to limit so your cycle is not affected, and the unborn baby won’t be harmed if you limit yourself to certain foods. Now, let’s focus on what foods to eat while trying to conceive:
