Dietary Investigation Report

This literature review will look into obesity in pregnancy and the influences its has on maternity care. The review will explore specifically health promotion including weight, dietary and exercise advice given to obese women, and will explore the challenges that come with giving weight related advice for the midwife and the women involved.

Since the beginning of time, the birth of a baby was a sign of a new life, and within today’s society, many of those lives start within a hospital with the assistance of different medical staff. Now, every family and parent is different in regards to the upbringing of their future child well before their birth, and in order to protect and support this idea; different programs were established within Canada. The Canadian Prenatal Nutrition Program which was established in 1995 can be considered one, as they work to provide support to the health and wellbeing of pregnant women within different communities. Within their program some prominent goals mentioned are: to improve maternal-infant health, increase birth weight rate, and promote breastfeeding

A healthy diet is full of fruit, vegetables, starchy foods, proteins, fibre and calcium is also important for the mother to avoid caffeine.

The Christina Rentz’s blog, she writes from personal experience of breastfeeding, on how much it roughly will cost parents a year to do so. She highlights and provides numbers and estimated cost of supplies that a mother or new parents may need for breastfeeding.

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WIC is a supplemental food program for pregnant and postpartum women and infants through the age of five years. The dieticians spoke of the food’s nutritional quality, the health benefits, how to sign up for WIC and the support given to mothers and children while on the WIC program. The dieticians reported they also provided referrals as needed for medical care, early childhood programs and additional food support options. The website reports that, “Nutrition education is the cornerstone of this public health program” (Hennepin County, 2016j). The website gives information on applying for WIC, education on the different food groups and information on buying fresh, local food from farmers markets (Hennepin County,

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The last segment of the program came back to India where Professor Caroline Fall was planning a dietary mediation program. By giving day by day snacks before and amid pregnancy, the analysts would like to supplement every mother 's eating regimen with basic supplements to enhance the soundness of her

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Technological advances in the past decade have allowed scientists to study the brain in ways that have led to new understanding about how young children develop. There is a new understanding of both the capabilities and the vulnerabilities of infants and young children and that understanding is has influenced the work of caregivers and teachers. During pregnancy, the basic architecture of the brain is formed. Although, certain experiences do influence the developing brain during pregnancy, such as maternal health and stress, intake of drugs and/or alcohol, and quality of maternal nutrition.

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From taking this class, I have gained significant understanding of biological determinants of women’s health. Learning about the number of unique biological risks women face is important to understand for me because I am a woman and this risks are likely to pertain to me as well. One of topic of biological aspect of women’s health we covered in class were risks factors associated with pregnancy, its complication and pregnancy itself. Understanding about maternal death and number of causes such as hemorrhage, sepsis, hypertensive, and abortion