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. Some pregnant females think that after they have gained 7 pounds for the baby, the rest of the weight will be just fat. This is just not true. Although the baby needs to weigh at least 7 pounds, the rest of the weight builds the unborn baby's home.