Suggest A Diet To Be Followed During Pregnancy

Posted on Fri, 22 Sep 2017

Question: Kindly suggest the best nutrition related diet for my wife who is pregnant presently. She is currently nearing the completion of 5 months. Also she is taking the below medicines daily as per the prescription by Gynecologist.

Answered by Dr. Deepti Verma (43 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
High protein diet

Detailed Answer:
Hi dear,
I have gone through your question and understand the concerns.

She should take high protein diet and plenty of fluids.

The diet can be as follows:
7AM- I glass milk with 2 biscuits/ toasts
9AM- sprouts/ poha/ Dalia/ 2 Chapati/ Idli/ Uttapam
11AM- One seasonal fruit with 6-7 nuts
1-1:30PM-2 Chapati / 1 plate rice with vegetable, 1 cup pulses, 1 cup curd
3:00PM- 1 fruit or 2 ladoo made of nuts and flour
5:30 PM- 1 cup tea with mathri/ biscuits/ any dry snack
8: 00PM- Dinner similar to lunch with different vegetables and lentils
10PM- 1 glass milk

The diet plan can be changed Daily and different items should be included.
Milk and milk products should be taken in good amount.

Hope you found the answer helpful.

Regards
Dr Deepti Verma
OBGYN
Maternal and fetal medicine specialist

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Arnab Banerjee