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Guidelines for Healthy Mothers and
Babies
- During pregnancy and lactation additional 300 calories
and 500 calories are recommended.
- Diet should be rich in protein, vitamins and minerals
specially calcium, iron and vitamins, especially folic acid.
- For additional iron requirements, food stuff like green
leafy vegetables, whole pulses, eggs, meat, should be consumed
along with vitamin C rich foods for effective ultilisation
of iron.
- Avoid heavily spiced and flavored foods.
- Intake of milk products, egg, meat, green vegetables,
citrus fruits, yellow fruits and vegetables is essential
to meet the increased energy, protein, calcium, vitamin,
A and C requirements during lactation.
Babies
- Monitor the growth of the child up to 6 years of age.
- A healthy growing infant child should gain height and
weight regularly.
- A healthy growing infant normally doubles his birth weight
in 5-6 months and triples his birth weight by the time he
is10-12 months old. In the first year, there is an increase
of 18-22 cms in babies' length.
- To monitor growth of children after 1 year, the following
height and weight table can be referred:
Height and Weight of Healthy Growing
Children
| Age |
Boy's
height. Cms |
Boy's
weight. Kg |
Girls
height.cms |
Girl's
weight. Kg |
| 1+ |
80 |
10.5 |
78 |
10 |
| 2+ |
90 |
12.5 |
88 |
12 |
| 3+ |
98 |
15 |
96 |
14 |
| 4+ |
105 |
16 |
104 |
16 |
| 5+ |
114 |
19 |
112 |
19 |
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