What to Eat During Pregnancy
I took my first pregnancy as an excuse to eat whatever I wanted. I gained 60 pounds. With my following three pregnancies, I tried to eat healthy and that included eating as much fresh fruit as I could. All of those babies were nine to ten pounds. My fourth delivery was extremely difficult. He was huge and I really had to work to get him out. I was in fantastic shape, I did yoga every day and I could bend myself into whatever position the midwife requested to help ease the baby out. It is helpful to be limber and strong when going into your labor (more on this in another post) but it is equally important that your baby is a healthy size as well. While I was in the "agonizing about whether or not to have another baby" stage of my fifth child, I called my midwife to see if it was safe for me to have one more. I remembered my labor to be quite difficult and I was worried about future shoulder dystocia, potential cesarean sections, gestational diabetes, et...