Even more important, eating right will help you have a normal, healthy baby. You need to be healthy yourself to have a healthy baby. Some teenagers have had poor diets for a long time. So they don't have enough of the needed nutrients such as calcium and iron stored up in their bodies. If this is the case with you, you especially need to eat extra helpings of nutritious food now.
Pregnancy is no time to diet.
It is important to eat a variety of foods, including milk and milk products, meat and other protein foods, breads and cereals, and fruit and vegetables. If you don't get enough nutrition for both yourself and your baby, it is the baby's health that is hurt. Teenage mothers have a higher risk of having very small babies. But 9 you gain the proper amount of weight during your pregnancy, you will have a better chance of having a healthy baby. The healthiest babies weigh over 7 pounds.