Lifestages - Pregnancy: Energetics

Question 1

Pregnancy: Energetics

Answer 1

• Although everyone’s constitution is different, pregnancy is generally considered a time of moisture (consider the amniotic fluid).
• During pregnancy, women can feel more hungry, emotional, lethargic, and congested (all signs of excess moisture).
• Avoid:
  o Damp-forming food (i.e. dairy, refined sugars, processed foods).
  o Excess fluids, cold green smoothies, mucilaginous foods (e.g. okra).
  o Sweet and high-water content fruits (e.g. melons, ripe bananas).
  amniotic fluid= fluid surrounding the foetus

Question 2

Pregnancy: Energetics

Answer 2

Focus on more drying foods:
* Whole grains, legumes and generally lighter, drier, crunchier foods.
* Warmth also helps to counteract moisture so foods and drinks taken warm and small amounts of culinary herbs and spices will be balancing (not high amounts during pregnancy and breast feeding).
* The newborn baby is also damp (childhood is the moist life stage). An infant needs breastmilk, warmth, comfort and sleep.