The Christmas dinner

We are back in the last and most enjoyable month of the year! Enjoy the pleasant days with family and friends with your (future) family! Tasty food and drink is also part of it and that is exactly where it is. Often the Christmas dinner consists of many delicious things that you should not eat when you are pregnant, such as raw meat (think of carpaccio, medium steak, ox sausage), raw fish (sushi, smoked salmon) or a homemade tiramisu (raw egg) for dessert. On the site of the nutrition center you can find good information about what you can and cannot eat during pregnancy, see nutrition list. Furthermore, it is sometimes difficult to skip a glass of bubbles or a glass of red wine, but of course it is very important not to drink alcohol when you are pregnant! See why on this link: http://www.fasstichting.nl

But the most important thing for everyone, enjoy a warm, cozy and loving December! 

The season of skiing and snowboarding is coming again. What is wise if you are pregnant?
Do not go skiing or snowboarding above 2,150 meters. When you get higher, the air contains less oxygen for you and therefore also for the baby.
If you want to do winter sports, you should realize that you are less stable than normal and have weaker joints, so faster injuries. Skiing and snowboarding is a sport with a high risk of falling. That chance is even greater during pregnancy. So take it easy! It is not advisable to go skiing or snowboarding for the first time if you are pregnant. Estimate for yourself what you like and be especially careful! No matter how experienced you are, there is always a risk that others can hurt you.

As part of “Together for Breastfeeding Week”, the Netherlands Nutrition Center has created a fresh online breastfeeding magazine. With personal stories, advice, tips and videos. (Expectant) parents receive answers to frequently asked questions about breastfeeding: How do I properly position my baby? Is my baby getting enough? How does flasks work?

Click here for the online breastfeeding magazine

Giving birth at the midwife is as safe as giving birth in a hospital under the supervision of a gynecologist. That is the conclusion of gynecologists and obstetricians from the AMC and VUmc in Amsterdam.

Home birth is a unique Dutch tradition. It happens within a “midwifery system” where pregnant women with a low risk of complications give birth under the control of the midwife. That is possible at home, but also in a clinic. Women with an increased chance of something going wrong during delivery are supervised by the gynecologist. They can no longer choose to give birth at home.

“Baby mortality due to obstetric system”, headlined NRC Handelsblad in early November 2010 when the Utrecht study appeared. And the newspaper Trouw started the news with: “Baby safer with gynecologist”. The tone was set and the battle between midwives and gynecologists flared up in newspapers and on TV. With the positive conclusion that cooperation must improve. It all happened in a period of worrying publications about the high infant mortality rate in the Netherlands, compared to other European countries.

http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2015/08/31/thuis-bevallen-is-net-zo-veilig-als-in-het-ziekenhuis/

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Hospital deliveries are often artificially generated. The World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned about this increase.

The KNOV midwifery association states that insufficient attention is being paid to the negative consequences of an introduction, whereby digestion and contractions are artificially induced by breaking membranes and an infusion with contractions.

Gynecologists’ association NVOG says in the newspaper that there are indeed risks associated with an introduction. “And so you only have to intervene if the life of mother and / or child is in danger,” says gynecologist Jan Derks.

Door: NU.nl