Success StoryTaking Care of You and Baby with Healthy Choices for Your Pregnant Body
Taking Care of You and Baby with Healthy Choices for Your Pregnant Body
Author: Sandra Kennedy
Planning Unit: Clark County CES
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
Outcome: Long-Term Outcome
Whether you’re a new or experienced mother, uncertainty will happen. There are
help centers available for young women to get the support, education, and physical
needs met. They assist the mom with proper hygiene care, physical activity exercise
and nutritional needs for both mom and baby to insure they have a healthy baby.
We have worked very closely with our center director to provide nutritional
curriculum lessons from the Healthy Choices for Every Body/ Your Pregnant Body,
and if you are expecting or have a newborn, the materials can encourage you to
continue on the path of being as healthy as possible, during and after you deliver.
We started with the Healthy Choices for Your Pregnant Body, and followed up with
Healthy Choices for Every Little Body,
Eight participants meet each week at the center, bringing their ideas and solutions to
help with heartburn, upset tummies and those cravings that can get overwhelming
at times.
After the seven weeks, we asked the mothers what they gleaned from the
curriculum that was presented. Four mothers to be said, by choosing foods low in
Fat, Sodium and those hidden sugars in foods, they were able to maintain a healthy
weight throughout the whole pregnancy.
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