When a woman is pregnant, she is totally responsible for the health of her unborn child. There are a number of things that you can do to safeguard this health. Avoiding alcohol and drugs is critical but so is making sure you are getting the proper level of prenatal nutrients. There are several nutrients which are important not only to the health of the baby, but also the health of the mother.

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For over thirty years, physicians have been praising the benefits of antioxidant-rich super fruits, especially red grapes and blueberries because of the high levels of antioxidants found in them. Acai berries have over 30 times more antioxidants than blueberries or red grapes! One would have to agree that acai berries are the single-most antioxidant-rich food on earth.

More and more research is pointing to the benefits of Vitamin D during pregnancy, but this great pregnancy nutrient has so many additional functions in the body. Vitamin D’s role is fundamentally calcium maintenance; in this role it maintains the healthy calcium levels in your bones. When pregnant, vitamin D may work in a similar fashion. However, this individual vitamin also touches hundreds of discrete genes and to affect a lot of areas of wellbeing.