Journal de l'alimentation, de la nutrition et de la santé de la population Libre accès

Abstrait

Impact of Birth Weight of Newborns on Mother's Food Habit During Pregnancy. A Case-Control Study

Md. Asadulah

A woman’s health is essential to the good health of her baby. Eating a nutritious diet during pregnancy is linked to good fetal brain development, a healthy birth weight, and it reduces the risk of many birth defects. Women who eat well and exercise regularly along with regular prenatal care are less likely to have complications during pregnancy. They’re also more likely to successfully give birth to a healthy baby. Pregnancy is a special period of increased nutritional needs during which conscious nutritional support is required. Insufficient and imbalanced nutrition in this period of life causes serious conditions that affect both child and mother. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between pregnancy and nutrition/nutritional habits during pregnancy. Nutrition during pregnancy plays an important role for an optimum outcome of pregnancy. Maternal under nutrition can lead to poor intrauterine growth and low weight of the baby at birth. Moreover, the leading causes for maternal deaths like hemorrhage and infection are related directly or indirectly to nutrition. Since Bangladesh is a poor country and 40% people live below the poverty line. Therefore, it is very difficult to eat nutritious food with little income. We selected the majority of the respondents from the village. Because we try to see what kind of food mother eat in the village during pregnancy and how they are born. The aim of this study is to measure the effects of mother’s food habits during pregnancy on newborn baby.