What to eat and not to eat when trying to conceive

hello Firefly, i like the name:-)

will look up his website, thanks for the advice, much appreciated.

regards

Hello Belaine, thank you for the advice, will google the book.

All the luck with TCC, let me know the good news...

take care

all the luck

Hi dts,

If you want to be super healthy, Patrick Holford has a book called "Optimum Nutrition Before, After and During Pregnancy" which outlines what you should/should not eat while ttc, including what vitamin supplements you should take.

Some people find him to be a bit extreme in his thinking (absolutely no caffeine, little to no sugar in favour of natural sweetners, no processed foods, no white/refined flours, no fizzy drinks, dilute fruit juices 50/50 with water..) but I try to follow his eating plans as far as I can, while regularly falling off the wagon without feeling too bad about it (he also has tons of books on low GL eating, healthy eating, nutrition etc www.patrickholford.com/).

Generally he recommends taking some sort of omega supplement, a multi-vit/mineral and a vitamin C supplement (in addition to your muli-vit). For pregnancy/ttc he also recommends vit B supplements, folic acid and a few other things.

I have the book tucked away somewhere and can check it up for you if you'd like.

Hi My hubby bought me a nice book it was in Afrikaans bur I'm sure you get the English one as well. Pregnancy - Sister Lillian

There is nice advice about what to eat etc it helped me a lot. I'm als TTC after my blighted ovum hope to be pregnant again very soon!!

Good luck, Well done on giving up caffeine drinks and centrum materna is good, folic acid is very important and it contains that.

What I remember that all meat and food must be well cooked so don"t eat sushi etc.
Fruit is very important and rather eat a fruit than drinking the juice but the juice is also healthy , drink lots of water, I will have a look in that book and let you know. But you can google it also.

Good luck

Hi ladies, i have been trying to conceive since September last year, had a few hiccups, but all seems to be ok for now, i am following a healthy diet, even joined Weighless, to lose a few kilos, I would like to know, what food to eat to help with conceiving and what to avoid, i have stopped all caffeine drinks, I dont drink or smoke. I am on Centrum materna DHA. thank you