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YOUR BODY

IS YOUR

(BABY’S)

TEMPLE

GLOW PERIOD TRACKER APP, FREE, ITUNES

This app helps you track your period, emotions, moods, physical symptoms, fertility health and medications. Glow's

data shows women who actively use the app have at least a 40 per cent greater likelihood of getting pregnant. Glow

users report having sex most frequently on days 12-15 (around ovulation), but orgasm is more frequent in the 2-3 days at the start

of a cycle. According to the data, of those who are actively trying to conceive, 7.5 per cent still had sex during their period.

ALCOHOL:

The government recommends

women stop drinking alcohol

when trying for a baby. If you

are going to drink, they suggest

consuming no more than one or

two units of alcohol per week.

A schooner of beer or cider

is one unit. A small glass of

wine is 1.5 units. Alcopops are

about 1.5 units.

CAFFEINE:

The government advises

less than 200mg per day.

Flat white coffee using arabica

beans (180ml) = 60mg caffeine.

FOLIC ACID:

Take it as soon as you stop

using contraception until you’re

12 weeks pregnant. This

protects the unborn baby

against the risk of spina bifida

and other neural tube defects.

VITAMIN D:

Some women have low levels,

so check with your GP.

If you follow the medical advice – like, perfectly – this is what

you’d be putting in your shopping trolley*

*According to government recommendations

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PROTEIN: Lean meat and poultry,

fish, eggs, pulses (beans and lentils).

2 portions per day.

DA I RY:

3 portions per day.

FISH: 2 portions per

week (no more as oily fish

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3 if you’re

vegetarian

VEGIES:

5 per day.

FRUIT:

2 per day.

WHOLE

GRAINS:

Foods such

as bread,

pasta,

cereals,

protein,

oats

and rice.

Have 1

portion

with each

meal.

Eat iron-rich foods: red

meat, pulses, dried fruit,

bread, green vegetables,

fortified breakfast cereals.

Have vitamin C with meals

to help absorb the iron.

Soft, mould-ripened or

blue-veined cheese may

increase risk of listeriosis,

a bacterial infection that

can affect your pregnancy.

QUICK TIPS!

A GUIDE TO SHOPPING WHEN

YOU’RE TRYING TO BE PREGNANT