Fasting During Pregnancy

Fasting during pregnancy, can?

Yes, as long as willing to meet the nutrition and calories needed during pregnancy to boost the development and growth of the baby.

Some tips fasting for pregnant women include:

• When dawn. Eat a balanced diet that has a composition that is 50% carbohydrate, 30% protein, 10-20 percent fat.
• When breaking. After evening prayers, eat larger portions, but do not overdo it so as to make the stomach feel full. To meet the current needs of the hungry in the evening, try to eat a little before bed.
• During fasting. Mothers should reduce physical activity that is too tiring, and do not hold fast if you have nausea and vomiting and weakness.

But there are things to consider before that pregnant women undergo fasting, fasting is not recommended during the first trimester of pregnancy disorders accompanied by nausea and vomiting, vomiting. For feared her fetus could be malnourished.

It can be said, the benefits of fasting for pregnant women are able to prevent disease caused by excessive eating. For pregnant women and fetuses, excess food nutrition can lead to obesity and degenerative diseases in the mother and fetus.

Another benefit of fasting for pregnant women that can rid the body of toxins and impurities or also called detoxification, which can limit their intake of calories into the body, resulting in antioxidant enzymes that clean up toxic substances in the body.

Mothers should also know that not only fasting, prayer tarawih done during Ramadan after breaking also has the benefit of helping to process food in the body's metabolism. If the calculation is done with calorie counter, the number of calories burned during tarawih prayers at 200 calories.

Oleh: Dr. dr. Imam Rasjdi, SpOG (K) Onk