Eating safely in Pregnancy
When you're pregnant your levels of immunity are lower than usual, so you're more at risk of getting diseases carried by food. Find out how to protect yourself from foodborne illness – food poisoning – when pregnant.
Foodborne illness can affect your baby
To protect you and your developing baby's health, it's important to eat safely during pregnancy. Foodborne illness can make you and your baby unwell, and in extreme cases can cause:
- serious illness
- premature or stillbirths
- the death of newborn babies.
You can minimise your risks of food poisoning by:
- knowing which foods are high risk, and avoiding them
- following basic food safety guidelines when preparing and storing food. This helps prevent pathogens (bugs) getting in your food.
Download the Food Safety in Pregnancy brochure:
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Download the quick guide as to whats safe to eat in pregnancy:
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Visit the NZ goventment site for more info on safe eating for pregnanyt women: http://www.mpi.govt.nz/food-safety/pregnant-and-at-risk-people/food-and-pregnancy/
Nutrition in pregnancy
Most dietary advice offered to mothers is done so with the aim of avoiding health issues, for minimising risk. The aim of this booklet from Early Life Nutrition is different. It has been developed specifically to provide parents and carers with nutritional guidance, from pre-conception right through to toddlerhood, which can help optimise the long-term future health of your baby.
Information and recommendations in the booklet are based on the findings of a panel of experts from Australia and NZ, specially convened to review findings and develop recommendations around how early nutrition helps lay the foundations for future health.
Download the brochure "20 recommendations from pre-conception and pregnancy to help lay the foundations for your child’s life-long health"
Visit their website for more info: www.earlylifenutrition.org
