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Week 18 · Nutrition

So many Mommies, so many diets!

"Do all future mothers eat the same things as I do?" In general, yes, but of course diets vary in their details for a number of reasons. If you move a lot, work, and expend a lot of energy, it is logical that you will eat more calorie rich foods than moms who lie in bed. What doesn’t vary is the arithmetic: no extra calories at all in the first trimester, about 340 a day in the second, about 450 in the third. That is a sandwich and a glass of milk, not a second dinner.

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So many Mommies, so many diets! — week 18 of pregnancy — Hello Belly