Get enough vitamins and body minerals. A good balanced diet, of about 2,500 calories a day, supplies these essentials. If you are worried about it, add any good total vitamin and mineral supplement to the diet. Too many women do not change their previous faulty eating habits and prejudices when they are pregnant. You can't keep your weight down when you are pregnant, so don't try any reducing diets.
Some women take the occasion of their pregnancy for deliberately getting overweight.
They pamper themselves with an excess of food they would feel guilty about gorging at any other time. An excess of calories in the form of carbohydrates and fats is not essential in pregnancy-and, in fact, should be guarded against. Only for the time being. Within a few months afterward you will probably have a better figure-if pregnancy has taught you anything about diet and health care generally. With multiple and frequently repeated childbearing, the abdominal muscles tend to lose tone and sag, but it takes a lot of pregnancies for this.