Gestational Carrier’s Nutrition Guide

A healthy and nutritious diet can change your life for the better in so many ways, especially for a gestational carrier. From improving your mood to reducing your risk for various illnesses, choosing your food wisely has countless benefits. Here are some tips on how you can improve your health through the food that you eat while being a gestational carrier.

As a gestational carrier, you must pay attention to the labels at the back of the food that you buy in the grocery store. Take the time to read the nutritional values on the packages before you make your purchase. Doing so will help you make informed decisions on your food choices.

One of the best things you can do to ensure proper nutrition as a gestational carrier is to include a good multi-vitamin in your daily regimen. This will be more or less, provided for you by the soon to be parents and prescribed by your health practitioner.  A good multi-vitamin for a gestational carrier should be balanced and prescribed by your physician’s recommendations for you, not the RDA. These multivitamins provide your body with the necessary levels of various minerals and vitamins that you might not be getting in your diet. This will act as a supplement and will also aid in the development of the baby that you are carrying.

When considering your nutrition as a gestational carrier, it is important to keep the soon to be parents involved throughout the whole process. This will make them feel excited and bring about a feeling of value and importance. Take them to the store with you and have them help you pick out foods that they like and that are healthy for you and the baby.

As a gestational carrier, make sure to mix protein and carbohydrates when you sit down to eat. You’ll still get energy from the carbohydrates, but the protein will keep you full. Eating a mix of the two will keep your blood sugar stable and keep your appetite in check.

Building healthy eating habits are vital to a sustainable plan for healthy nutrition not just for you as a gestational carrier, but also for the child that you are carrying. The overall effectiveness of a healthy diet, hinges entirely on whether or not you can stick to it. Diet alterations that are easy to accept are preferable over extreme modifications that you, as a gestational carrier, will struggle with.

When considering your nutrition as a gestational carrier, be sure to watch out for foods that may appear healthy but end up being quite the opposite. There can be a lot of fats and sodium in supposedly healthy looking snacks. Smoothies for example, may end up having a lot of calories from fats and sugar depending on the ingredients they used. You are, after all, eating for two so it is vital for you to be careful with what you put in your body.