Diet Quality During Pregnancy

Dietary intake during pregnancy and in infancy was assessed with food frequency questionnaires and diet quality scores were calculated reflecting adherence to dietary guidelines.

Diet quality during pregnancy. A comprehensive search of all published articles in medline all ovid embase ovid food science and technology abstracts ovid and cinahl ebscohost from. Diet quality during pregnancy may impact fetal growth and infant birth weight yet findings are inconclusive. To examine relationships between maternal characteristics and diet quality during the first trimester of pregnancy. Our secondary outcomes include gestational diabetes pre eclampsia and birth weight.

Maternal diet may influence outcomes of pregnancy and childhood but data on correlates of food and nutrient intake during pregnancy are scarce. Here s what tops the list. We examined the relation between maternal diet quality during pregnancy and infant birth size among women enrolled in a prospective birth cohort. However a few nutrients in a pregnancy diet deserve special attention.

Maternal diet quality during pregnancy and lactation was also inversely associated with infant adiposity table 4. Specifically a 10 unit increase in hei 2015 total scores during pregnancy was associated with an approximately 0 6 lower infant bf at six months β 0 58 p 0 05. Methods and analysis we will conduct a systematic review of all prospective cohort studies on diet quality in preconception or pregnancy and gwg. There s no magic formula for a healthy pregnancy diet.

It is not known whether diet quality is altered over pregnancy and the post partum period. During pregnancy with a questionnaire. Ensuring adequate dietary intake during pregnancy has important implications for optimising maternal and fetal health. Breastfeeding practices were assessed with questionnaires at 2 6 and 12 months.