{"id":177,"date":"2009-06-10T20:15:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T01:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2009-06-10T20:15:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T01:15:05","slug":"pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2009\/20090610-177.htm","title":{"rendered":"Pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What should I be eating now that I&#8217;m pregnant?  Everybody talks about eating for two, but what does that look like?  My friend&#8217;s doctor said she could gain as much weight as she wanted&#8211;but then I&#8217;ve seen her struggle to lose weight after she had the baby.  And then there&#8217;s this pregorexic thing.  I mean, I don&#8217;t want the baby to make me fat, but I certainly don&#8217;t want to become anorexic or anything&#8211;especially not while I&#8217;m pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Did I manage to scare all of you who read the first paragraph of my every post in your feed burner or on Facebook?  You needn&#8217;t be afraid.  I am not pregnant.  I am still a virgin (that&#8217;s for my few brave high school readers&#8211;you can do it!). <\/p>\n<p>Instead, I&#8217;m taking an online course in Life Cycle Nutrition.  As part of that course, I have been asked to review the USDA&#8217;s &#8220;MyPyramid for Moms&#8221; website.  While all I have to do for class is review the site and discuss it on the class discussion forum, I thought I would share my thoughts with you all as well.  So here goes&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mypyramid.gov\/mypyramidmoms\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyPyramid for Moms<\/a><\/h3>\n<h5>Advantages:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Calculators Galore<\/b>-You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mypyramid.gov\/mypyramidmoms\/pyramidmoms_plan.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"> calculate a personalized MyPyramid Plan<\/a> that tells you how much of each food group to eat during each trimester.  You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mypyramidtracker.gov\/planner\/launch.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">compare what you&#8217;re eating to the recommendations<\/a>. You can even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mypyramid.gov\/mypyramidmoms\/pregnancy_weight_gain.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">calculate how much weight you should gain<\/a> during your pregnancy.<\/li>\n<li><b>Understandable information<\/b>-What information is present is written in a fairly easy to understand style.<\/li>\n<li><b>Personalized Plan<\/b>-The MyPyramid Plan for pregnancy and for breastfeeding is personalized to your height, weight, activity level, due date, and whether you&#8217;re breastfeeding completely or partially.  It&#8217;s further broken down into trimesters of pregnancy and months after delivery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Disadvantages:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Wordiness<\/b>-You&#8217;ve got to sort through a lot of text to find what you really want to know<\/li>\n<li><b>Not very specific<\/b>-for example, the site proclaims that &#8220;when you are pregnant, you have a higher need for some vitamins and minerals&#8221;, but fails to mention <i>which<\/i> vitamins and minerals you need more of.<\/li>\n<li><b>Skirts the issues<\/b>-MyPyramid never actually says how much your nutrient needs are increased during pregnancy.  It has an eating plan&#8211;but you&#8217;d never know from MyPyramid that for most women, &#8220;eating for two&#8221; means only an additional 300 calories per day (about the calories in a large candy bar.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mypyramid.gov\/mypyramidmoms\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyPyramid for Moms<\/a> website and let me know what you think.  Was my assessment correct or am I way out there?  Even the non-Mom&#8217;s can participate in this one.  Just do as I did&#8211;enter 12\/01\/09 as your due date for the pregnancy calculators and enter 05\/01\/09 as your child&#8217;s birthday for the breastfeeding calculators.  I&#8217;d <b>love<\/b> to hear what you think (and your insight might add something worthwhile to my class&#8217;s discussion of the topic as well!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What should I be eating now that I&#8217;m pregnant? Everybody talks about eating for two, but what does that look like? My friend&#8217;s doctor said she could gain as much weight as she wanted&#8211;but then I&#8217;ve seen her struggle to lose weight after she had the baby. And then there&#8217;s this pregorexic thing. I mean, &#8230; <a title=\"Pregnancy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2009\/20090610-177.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pregnancy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}