^iet 0^ S^ccta^ 



sisniFicant health 



By ANNE W. WERTZ, Dspc.tment of Home Economics Nutrition 

 and EUGENE M. HOLDEN, M. D., cooperating physician 



THE WRONG DIET during preg- 

 nancy may mean trouble for an 

 expectant mother. It may mean a 

 sick mother or child or a difficult 

 delivery. In the January 1952 issue 

 of Research in Review, it was empha- 

 sized that many women did not eat 

 adequate diets during pregnancy. 



Additional work has been con- 

 ducted on this subject, and clinical 

 records have been kept on 77 women 



throughout pregnancy and during 

 delivery. Any condition that de- 

 viated from a normal healthy pre- 

 natal course was considered a compli- 

 cation. 



Sixty-one Percent Normal 



The most common difficulties dur- 

 ing pregnancy were anemia, edema 

 (swelling of the extremities), severe 

 nausea, and vomiting. Other compli- 



Comporison of percentage of women on adequate (group I) and inadequate (group 

 in which complications occurred during pregnancy, labor, and delivery. 



diets 



■ Group I 



o Group n 



di 



% of Women . 

 with compticQTions 



Pregnancy 



Labor & 

 Delivery 



^Other . ^fA^icAaocoui, 



Anemia Nausea tdema CompnoaTion& ConipucaT\ons 



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