Introduction

Fetal Development

The Danger Signs of Pregnancy

The Pregnant Patient's

Sexual Intimacy

 

Weight Gain

 

Communication Skills

 

Labor Coping Strategies

 

Birth Options and Preferences

 

What to Take to the Hospital

 

Labor

 

Addendum

 

Course Exam

Addendum

Food Groups

Protein Foods Grains & Cereals

Includes animal and vegetable foods a serving is 2-3 oz. cooked (boneless)of the following unless noted other otherwise.

  • Bacon, 6 slices
  • Beef: ground, roast, chopped  
  • Canned fish: tuna, crab, etc.
  • Clams, 4 large or 9 small   
  • Crab
  • Eggs, 2   
  • Fish: fillet, steak  
  • Fish: sticks, 4 
  • Hot dogs, 2   
  • Lamb: ground, roast, chopped 
  • Lobster  
  • Luncheon meat, 3 slices 
  • Organ meats: liver, kidney, tongue
  • Oysters, 10-15 medium
  • Pork: ham, ground, roast, chopped
  • Poultry: ground, roast  
  • Rabbit
  • Sausage links 4  
  • Shrimp, scallops, 5-6 large
  • Spareribs, 6 medium ribs
  • Veal: ground roast, chopped

Milk & Milk Products
A serving is 8 oz. or 1 cup unless noted otherwise.

  • Cheese: hard and semisoft (except blue, Camembert & cream), 1 ½ oz. 
  • Cheese Spread, 2 oz. 
  • Cottage Cheese, 1 1/3 cups
  • Cow’s Milk: whole, nonfat, low fat, nonfat dry reconstituted, buttermilk, chocolate milk, cocoa made with milk.
  • Cream Soups made with milk, 12 oz. Evaporated milk, 3 oz. Goat’s milk
  • Ice Cream, ½ cup
  • Ice milk
  • Milkshake, 8 oz.
  • Puddings, custard, flan
  • Yogurt

 

Choose whole grains over enriched grainproducts and enriched products over non-enriched products.

  • Brown rice, ½ cup
  • Cereals, hot: oatmeal, cracked wheat, etc., ½ cup.
  • Cereals, ready-to-eat: puffed oats, shredded wheat, granola, ¾ cup
  • Wheat germ, 1 tbsp.
  • Bread: 1 slice
  • Cereals, hot: cream of wheat, cream of rice, cornmeal, ½ cup
  • Cornbread, 1 piece (2” square)
  • Crackers, 4
  • Macaroni, noodles, spaghetti, cooked ½ cup
  • Muffin, biscuit, dumpling, 1
  • Pancake, 1 medium
  • Rice, cooked, ½ cup
  • Roll, bagel, 1
  • Tortilla, corn 2
  • Tortilla, flour, 1 large 
  • Waffle, 1 large

Leafy Green Vegetables
A serving is 1 cup raw or ¾ cup cooked

  • Asparagus
  • Broccoli
  • Brussels Sprouts
  • Cabbage
  • Dark, leafy lettuce: chicory, endive, escarole, red leaf, romaine.
  • Greens: beet, collard, kale, mustard,
    spinach, Swiss chard, turnip
  • Scallions
  • Watercress

 

Vitamin-C Rich Fruits & Vegetables
Fresh, frozen or canned forms may be used although canned products have alower Vitamin C content.

Juices:  

  • Orange, grapefruit, 4 oz.
  • Tomato, pineapple, 12 oz
  • Fruit juices and drinks-enriched with Vit. C, 6 oz. 

Fruits: 

  • Cantaloupe, ½
  • Grapefruit, ½  
  • Guava, ¼ medium 
  • Orange, 1 medium
  • Papaya, 1/3 medium
  • Strawberries, ¾ cup
  • Tangerine, 2 small 

Vegetables:

  • Bok choy, ¾ cup
  • Broccoli, 1 stalk         
  • Brussels sprouts, 3-4
  • Cabbage, cooked, 1 1/3 cups 
  • Cabbage, raw, ¾ cup
  • Cauliflower, raw or cooked, 1 cup
  • Greens: collard, kale, mustard,
  • Swiss Chard, turnip greens, ¾ cup
  • Peppers: green, red, ½ med.  
  • Tomatoes, 2 medium
  • Watercress, ¾ cup    


Other Fruits & Vegetables
A serving size is ½ cup either fresh, frozen or canned unless noted otherwise

Vegetables:

  • Artichoke
  • Bamboo shoots
  • Bean sprouts: alfalfa, mung
  • Beet
  • Carrot
  • Cauliflower
  • Celery
  • Corn
  • Cucumber
  • Eggplant
  • Beans: green, Wax
  • Hominy
  • Lettuce: head, Boston, bib     
  • Mushrooms
  • Onions
  • Parsnip
  • Peas
  • Pea Pods
  • Potato
  • Radishes
  • Summer squash
  • Sweet potato
  • Winter squash
  • Yam

Fruits:

  • Apricot, fresh, 1 large
  • Nectarine, 2 medium
  • Peach, fresh, 1 medium
  • Prunes, 4
  • Pumpkin, ¼ cup
  • Apple, 1 medium
  • Banana, 1 small
  • Berries
  • Cherries
  • Dates, 5
  • Figs, 2 large
  • Fruit cocktail
  • Grapes
  • Kumquats, 3
  • Pear, 1 medium
  • Pineapple
  • Plums, 2 medium
  • Raisins
  • Watermelon

 

 

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