Pregnancy diet - donts

Healthy and balanced diet is very important for you and your baby. During pregnancy you would need 300 more calories per day than you normally do. Pregnancy sicknesses like Nausea and vomiting can make things it bit difficult during the first trimester, then you would gradually expertise on what fits your tummy and what not.  But for the baby's development nutritious food and drinking sufficient amount of water is very important.

Please avoid the below things to have a healthy pregnancy and to have a healthy baby...

Smoking
Drinking alcohol

Junk foods
Deep fried /oily stuffs
Fish with mercury
Raw meat
Raw eggs
Too much of anything(you need to maintain your weight growth in linear pace, since it inclines to your baby's growth)


Also, check with your medical adviser before taking any medication for any illness.Since this can cause any serious health issues.

Try below when you feel sick
Nausea- simple crackers, cereals, breads or pretzels before you get out of bed or when you feel so.
Eat smaller meals more frequently during the day. Avoid greasy, fried foods.
• Diarrhea- Take dietary fibers such as pectin and gums which can absorb extra water in the body. Foods that contain these include applesauce, white rice and oatmeal. Drink lot of juice, avoid artificially flavored ones.
• Constipation- Drink lot of water. Eat fresh fruit and vegetables, green leaves. Make sure whatever you eat is fully cooked.
• Heartburn- Drinking warm water after each meal helps a lot. Also, do not eat in big quantities. rather eat many times in small amount. Try drinking milk before meals and avoiding caffeinated beverages.

Pregnancy diet - do's

I tried to give a list which might be helpful to you...This is a time you should try to eat healthier stuffs, of course it should be tasty too..

Make sure you don't eat any of the below in deep fried or cooked in oil...
Fruits - of any form is good
Vegetables - rich source of energy...
Spinach - rich source of iron
Meat/Chicken - rich source of protein
Nuts or dried fruits
Fiber rich food
Sprouts of any grains
Eggs (limit to one a day is always good)
sea food (prawn, fish)
Milk - rich calcium source

Also when you are carving for a fried item or so, you can eat them for taste not for hunger. please limit them so as to avoid later digestion issues since during pregnancy it is good not to take any over the counter medications other than the supplements...

Be sure to have six to eleven servings of breads and grains, two to four servings of fruit, four or more servings of vegetables, four servings of dairy and three servings of protein sources (meat, eggs, fish, poultry, or nuts).
• Eat plenty of high fiber foods like cereals, whole-grain bread, pastas, rice, fruits and vegetables.
• Eat at least three servings of iron-rich foods per day to ensure you are getting 27 mg of iron daily. • Dont forget to drink milk - calcium source
• It is also important to get at least one good source of Vitamin C because pregnant women should get about 70 mg of it in their bodies per day. God sources of Vitamin C include grapefruit, oranges, strawberries, cauliflower, broccoli, honey dew and papaya.
• Eat one source of Vitamin A every OTHER day. If you absorb too much of this vitamin it can cause fetal malformations. Good sources of Vitamin A include carrots, cantaloupe, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, spinach, and turnip and beet greens.
• Each pregnant woman should have 0.4mg of folic acid per day to help protect their baby from developing neural tube defects such as spina bifida. Good sources of folic acid are dark green leafy vegetables and legumes (lima beans, black beans, black-eyed peas and chickpeas).
Last one - dont forget your prenatal vitamins.


Thanks for reading...Have a healthy life...All the best!..

Buying international air tickets in India

From my experience, for the round trips starts from India, travel agents in India gives very good deals when comparing the deals you get from the local travel agents in USA.

Consider these major facts

• Which agent gives you the best deal
• Service after buying the tickets, Ex., you need to place a service request for wheel chair, how do they help you out. 
• How fast they keep you updated, Ex., Flight / air line cancels their flight,  how soon your agent will inform you about this and help you getting your tickets booked in other airlines Or in case of bad weather if the flight gets delayed.
• Make sure you ask such questions before paying the money.

By registering in sulekha.com, you would receive calls from at least 5 to 6 travel agents(remember, if your parents can not do the online registering in sulekha, you can do that by giving their phone number, so they receive the calls).
Check  with your friends if they can refer someone to you.
Another option is, check with your company's travel desk whether they can do this if you pay for them, one of my friend who works for an MNC did this way, it is lot easier than approaching other agents.

United States visitor Health Insurance

These are the 2 major things once your visitors got their VISA. Health insurance and the air tickets. First and foremost is the health insurance since the health expenses is very very costly in the United States when comparing with India. It is worthy and safe to take health insurance from the day the visitor reaches the country until the day of departure.

Health Insurance
I would recommend you to get the insurance here in USA, so that in case you need any clarifications it becomes easy to talk to the customer care.
If it is taken in India, you need to talk to the customer care there and many a times you need to follow up with the branch of the insurance office as you wont get proper answers from the customer care representative.
Another reason I recommend this is, most hospital networks wont be aware of the different international insurance companies operates in India.
I took insurance from Inbound USA. Unfortunately we ran into emergency care as my mom met with a accident in kitchen. Though we had to call them couple of times, we got the right answer also we did not end up paying so much from pocket 80% of the expenses were covered by the insurance company.