• Protein
The main function of the protein is to form new tissue and maintain the existing network. That is, why start this second trimester pregnant women are advised to obtain additional proteins, at least as much as 10-12 grams, according to high weight.
Additional protein is required for fetal growth, the formation of muscle tissue, skin, hair, nails, and so on.
Some examples of food that is a source of animal protein are meat / fish / poultry, eggs, milk and dairy products like cheese. While examples of foods containing vegetable protein include beans and refined product as tofu, tempeh and peanut butter

• Iron
During pregnancy the body’s blood volume increases 40-60% to reach the needs of the mother and the placenta that supplies food and oxygen to the fetus. That’s why pregnant women need extra iron, so pregnant woman not to suffer from blood deficiency (anemia) and must have enough iron inventories in the face of labor. Adequacy of iron are also useful to prevent babies suffering from iron deficiency anemia. When 10-25% of total calories needed comes from livestock products, the total requirement of iron for pregnant women about 29mg.
Iron in food is divided into two groups, namely heme iron and non-haem iron. Heme iron from hemoglobin and myoglobin are found only in animal foods. While the non-heme iron is generally present in foodstuffs that derived from plants such as vegetables, fruits, cereals, grains, nuts, and small amounts found in meat, fish, eggs. Heme iron is more easily absorbed by the body than non-heme iron. But the food is so-called meat factor such as meat, fish and chicken, if there is in the diet, although in small amounts, will increase absorption of non-haem iron. Please note, milk, cheese, eggs do not increase the absorption of non-haem iron. In addition to meat factor, vitamin C can also increase the absorption of non-haem iron. Therefore, if you eat a peanut butter sandwich in your pregnancy , you should combine it with orange chapters that contain vitamin C. Instead, you should avoid compounds that can inhibit iron absorption, such as tannins and phenolic compounds, found in tea and coffee while eating a diet rich in iron.

• Fiber
In the second trimester of pregnancy, the hormone progesterone increases. As a result, the abdominal muscles work more slowly, so the “journey” of food in the digestive tract will be longer. When the body’s need for fiber is not fulfilled properly, then the pregnant woman will experience constipation (difficult bowel movements), hemorrhoids (varicose veins in the anus), and arise in heartburn . That is why fiber is needed.
Not only that. Foods that are high in fiber will also make a pregnant woman chewed longer and feel full more quickly. This can help keep weight gain.
To meet the body’s daily requirement of fiber, you should consume lots of fruits and vegetables, and choose brown rice, bread, pasta or cakes made from whole-wheat flour. Conversely, if you’re eating too many processed foods, such as various canned food, then you will lack fiber.

With a healthy body in pregnancy condition, do exercises 2-3 sets (one set is 10 edit icon replications). Rest 30-45 seconds between 2 sets. So exercise against a wall, for example, repeated 20 times (2 sets), then rest, and do repeat the exercise 10 times longer, (1 set).

Do this exercise in your pregnancy 2-3 times a week on non consecutive days. You can mix up the gymnastic exercises of the 1st trimester and 2nd in pregnancy. The important thing, you feel more comfortable. If the body and your pregnancy is still strong, you may add gymnastics to other sports, a case of walking or swimming. It is good for pregnant women.

If you have followed all the existing training in your pregnancy and still have power, do exercises to strengthen the heart, too. Practice three times a week, for 20-30 minutes each workout. If you can not breathe freely or waist pain, reduce the intensity of exercise and choose the proper exercise, according to your ability. Remember, you are pregnant so must take care of it. For example, although it is recommended to walk for pregnant women, but if feel not afford, do not be forced.

Abdominal muscles also need to be strengthened in pregnancy, before and after childbirth. Therefore, the abdominal muscles strong to have many uses such as to stabilize your body. During pregnancy, it is very important to maintain the center of our body, in order to remain strong. Because in pregnancy , usually flexion at the waist most pregnant women would be more obvious if the pregnancy weight increase getting bigger due to stomach. When the “combined” with a hormone that relaxes the joints and ligaments (connective tissue thin), burden on the pubic bone are increase. So, strengthen the abdominal muscles in this time of pregnancy will help overcome the tendency of curved waist.

Special pregnancy gymnastic movements will help you to increase the strength of your stomach muscles safely. Although these exercises safely performed during pregnancy, you should use techniques that do physical exercises carefully and not too fast to do a hard workout. Because, it would be better if the training exercise was conducted under the supervision of a gymnastic master instructor for pregnant women.

Gymnastics, ideal sports
Basically, different types of sports that you normally do when you were not pregnant, like swimming cycling or golf, you can still go ahead. It’s just that you have a normal pregnancy conditions. Also avoid the speed advantage of a sudden, change direction and playback speed of the body, and too many jumps. Do exercise in your pregnancy with relaxation. And, keep communicate your activity with your doctor or midwife during antenatal care.

Gymnastics is one type of exercise is recommended at fourth month of pregnancy. In addition to light, exercise also prepares the body to deal with childbirth. 2nd trimester Gymnastics training usually focuses on specific body parts,such as the blood circulation and strengthens the muscles associated with pregnancy and childbirth. For example, the pelvis, abdomen, legs, and so forth.

So for you do not get bored doing your exercise during pregnancy, you can create schedules and change form of exercise. For example, swim once a week, gymnastics three times a week, or take a walk in the morning or late afternoon.

In line with the end of the third month of pregnancy, any discomfort experienced early in pregnancy gradually disappeared. If you usually feel tired, dizzy, nauseous and want to vomit enters your fourth month would be free of the disorder. That’s why this second trimester is arguably the most comfortable time of the entire term of pregnancy. Surely not all women experience the same thing. Some pregnant women are still experiencing morning sickness.

Usually the pregnant woman’s appetite began to improve. Body parts, such as skin and hair, getting a little greasy. Notwithstanding the foregoing, although so your face will look more fresh and radiant.

The most enjoyable aspect of the fourth month is, pregnant woman begin to feel or realize the subtle movements of the fetus. Usually this happens at the end of the fourth month. Hey, you start feeling your fetal Movement! Initially, fetal movement was very smooth, like a gentle caress or tingling. The longer the fetal movement was getting stronger and often. At one point, its movement can be very active. But different while the fetus quietly. Usually fetal movements felt more when pregnant woman is lying in bed or resting with legs outstretched. Apparently, the position make room in the uterus, so the fetus to move freely. At this point you may feel fine kicks from inside the abdomen.

On first pregnancy, fetal motion is usually detected only by pregnant women during gestation enter up to week 8-22. At first, pregnant women are a little difficult to feel fetal movement. But with increasing gestational age, pregnant women will easily to feel about fetal “attraction”.

Full attention of the husband at early pregnancy time can make pregnant women more trust on her husband. If the husband little ignore, maybe the pregnant women will immediately worried. fear of feeling left behind will probably get attacked pregnant woman. Changes in the body, regular or not, perhaps affect pregnant women’s self-image, so they feel less confident.

You do not need such of that feelings. Many argue, pregnant women actually show beauty different than usual. In fact, many a husband who thinks his pregnant wife is more sexy and alluring. So, begin to change your appearance by wearing dresses made specifically for pregnant women. In addition, the freshness and body hygiene still be maintained. At the very least, a shower and wash hair regularly, or try a new hair style, you can make a performance increase fresher.

In addition to worry, other things that often interfere with pregnant women in this month is decreased concentration. Inability to focus attention on something is a common occurrence experienced by pregnant women even most intelligent. All, according to experts, is caused by hormonal changes.

In fourth month of pregnancy your fetus increasingly large and active. Therefore, all movements that fetus do can be perceived by pregnant woman. In addition, the fetus’s face also begun to take shape. Like a father or mother? Hey!,.. now he is clever wink.

In this fourth month of pregnancy there are still many “homework” that you should do. Though physically in good condition , so that you are free to take sport and to consume any food, but you may still have unstable mental condition. Your emotions go up and down sometimes abysmally. You may feel the fall in confidence,but this is an exciting moment, too because you start to feel more about your baby. So, stay have a good thinking and healthy diet for this fourth month of pregnancy.

In order to perform this activity, your fetus’s mouth and lips should be able to do the sucking and swallowing movements. And, in this time of your pregnancy the two provisions are now supported by the digestive organs which started functioning digest food, then extract the starch. Digestive organs of the fetus have been able to sort out, where the substance to be absorbed and which are “junk” that should be discarded.

Approaching the end of the third month of pregnancy, the sense of taste of your fetus is working. Nerve cells around the mouth and lips started to feel the touch. The surface of the fetus’s tongue began to fill the nipples of taste which will help your baby to feel the delicious food for next time. Saliva glands in this third month of pregnancy also become active. Similarly, other digestive glands in the stomach. And in your baby’s kidneys mini, the screening process fluid and the formation of urine has also been initiated.

Every time your fetus sip fetal amniotic fluid, digestive system will immediately process it. Nutritional substances contained in amniotic fluid, especially in the form of sugar and salt will be absorbed. A small amount of other “solid food” will be stored in the gut.
While the “junk” substance that a liquid processed by the fetal kidneys into urine droplets are then removed from the fetus’s body. Urine is sterile in nature. therefore, urine fetus in the womb will not pollute the amniotic fluid.

While in the womb, amniotic fluid just inhaled into the lungs of fetus, then out again, along with the motion which carried by a diaphragm pump. Amniotic fluid is not dangerous, even on the contrary, assisting the process of development of fetus’s lung function. Order later to be able to function properly, the diaphragm also require “training”. The trick? By doing hiccups!

From a research proven, 3-month fetus can hiccup as much as 100 times an hour. One-time hiccups usually lasts a few minutes, then stopped, then started again. And so on, over and over again. Movement of the hiccups that strengthens the muscles in the various respiratory organs of the fetus.

This month, your fetus actively engaged. At the age of 10-11 weeks, with body length about 5.5 cm and weighs less than 13 grams, the fetus shape more similar to the shape of a baby. Hands and feet continue to elongate. So do fetus’s fingers and toes. Nail “bud” at each end of the finger began to turn into a kind of nail. Yes, hands and feet the fetus more perfect form and function. That is why, the fetus now dare to make movements that are fantastic. Not only swayed to the right and left, or forward and backward.
Indeed, at the age of 3 months is little more “alive”. He is very actively engaged. Any form of movement tried. Starting from a slow motion to fast motion. Not just a movement that “simple”, like touching the face with one hand, the fetus also start tried doing the movements are “difficult”. To do so, it needs good coordination between the body with other organs. For example waved his hand in turn, while moving his legs like a man walking. Your fetus even able to do salto movement, and turned around 360 degree.

By actively moving like this, the muscles of his new joints that been formed also started well trained.
In addition, by actively moving, the fetus can find new positions are more comfortable. Therefore, do not be surprised if within an hour, your fetus could change the position up to 20 times! Can horizontal, could also be vertical. Maybe he in a position “standing” in one minute. But in the next minute his head position has moved. This time the position was under, while his legs crossed. Although pregnant woman is laying to rest or sleep, the fetus remained active moving in the womb. The fetus almost never stops moving more than 5 minutes. So lively, to the point that he almost never slept.

However, not all fetus movements on its own initiative. There are sometimes arising from activities of the pregnant woman. For example, when his mother coughing, sneezing or laugh, the fetus in the womb move following shocks carried the mother’s body. Fetus would be bobbing in the amniotic fluid, the front and backward, like a boat tossed seas. Indeed, amniotic sac which is the “home”and “bearing” a protector for the child, now is still very broad. Because, despite being 12 weeks old, fetus’s body has not reached 5 cm. So he is still traveling freely in the warm temperature of 37.5 celcius degrees amniotic fluid surrounding.

No not be surprised if this month your fetus can hiccup till 100 times and started to “eat” in your womb!.

In your pregnancy, take this essential fats in your menu. Because it is important for your baby’s brain. Besides the fish like salmon, essential fatty others can be found in vegetable oils, egg, almonds,nuts (for those of you who easily allergies are advised to avoid peanuts), and seeds (eg sunflower seeds, sesame). If you cook your meal, avoid all fried and processed foods that are excessive for your essential fats, because it contains a lot of saturated fat. If so, you will lose the kindness of essential fats in your pregnancy time.

Lack of essential fatty fulfillment would seem from the appearance of the pregnant woman. For example, dry skin, dull hair and nails.