How to Increase Calcium when Pregnant Better Pregnancy Nutrition

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When pregnant you need more calcium than you do normally to help with the babies development. Here are a few tips to add calcium to your pregnancy diet.

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Step 1

Cook rice or pasta and cooked cereals with some milk or all milk instead of water. You will need to lower the heat and stir more to avoid scorching.
Step 2

Instead of coffee try a cup of cocoa or hot chocolate made with milk for your warm drink in the morning. You should be watching your caffeine intake closer anyway. Caffeine will leach calcium from your bones over time.
Step 3

When you make a baked potato or salad or have soup add grated cheese or sour cream instead of butter. Track your nutrition more than calories.
Step 4

Drink milk with lunch or have a small glass instead of what you normally drink. Warm milk before bed helps you sleep better as well.
Step 5

You can add powdered milk to soup or gravy or sauces. Also add it to casseroles. It will make soup creamier and add needed calcium.
Step 6

Eat cheese as a snack. Yogurt is filling and very good for you. If you want something sweet try chocolate milk. It is still as good as when you were a kid.
Step 7

This last one I found a bit extreme, but probably works well. When my friend who runs a health food store and is a strict vegan was pregnant and calcium deficient because she lacks dairy products in her diet, she took egg shell halves and wiped them clean, then filled them with pure lemon juice and let it sit a bit. The lemon juice dissolves the egg shell calcium. She then drinks the lemon juice and it is a great source of calcium. If it is one of your few sources as a vegan outside of leafy green vegetables like spinach I guess I might do it. For now I will pass on this one. Pass me the chocolate milk.

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PurpleAnkh said

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on 12/18/2008 Haha My comment should have read "RAW" milk not rww milk! haha.

on 12/1/2008 I am with ya on everything but drinking plani milk. For some reason, my body rejects "rww" milk when I am pregnant, happened all 3 times. Normal people, unlike me, should have no problem!!