Prepare Yourself for Motherhood

• The couple must take nutritious and balanced diets at least for 2-3 months.
• Try to have freshly cooked meals.
• Diet  must include lentils, ice, vegetables, roti (wheat bread), butter, buttermilk, ghee,
• green gram khichdi and seasonal fruits.
•  Include milk and milk products like kheer, dudhpak, basundi in your diet.
•  Stay away from processed, Sour items like pav, dabali, pizza, burger, toast, puffs, bakery and fermented items like dhokla, idla, khaman, locho, serkhamni, dosa, uttapam, idli. Also avoid canned food, cold drinks, flavored dishes and Chinese and Punjabi cuisine or any other spicy items.
• Avoid addictions like tea, coffee, tobacco, bidis and cigarettes.
• One should eat only when really hungry. It is advisable to chew the food properly with  no distractions. Avoid talking or laughing at the time of meals. Do not eat too quickly or too slow
•  Tamasic food like meat, egg, fish, marijuana, alcohol and cannabis are not advisable.
• Avoid too sour or too salty items like pickle, papad.
• A nutritious and balanced diet should be taken in the right proportion. Overeating can lead to indigestion. Try to have smaller meals at regular intervals.
• Meal should include urad, milk and female urad (black lentil and should be cooked in
  sesame oil.
•  Try to restrict the intake of brinjal, papaya, elephant foot yam and dry fruits. Avoid citrus food. Prefer fruits like banana, apple, custard apple.

The food prescribed here is easy to digest and provides nutrition to the seven elements of the body, including plasma, blood, flesh, bones, marrow and semen.