Getting Healthy Before Pregnancy

• Go to the doctor and get checked up before you get pregnant, and afterwards get frequent doctor care.
• Always make sure that your vaccinations & immunizations are up to date.
• Get dental checkups before & during your pregnancy, and beware of gum disease.
• Take supplements that equal 400 micrograms of folic acid, or the equivalent in foods to prevent birth defects.
• Eat healthy foods before and while you are pregnant in order to get to a healthy pregnancy weight to avoid pregnancy problems due to obesity or underweight.
• Do not smoke, do drugs, or drink alcohol as well as drugs that havent been prescribed to you. 
• Educate yourself in your family's medical health history to watch for any illnesses that might be hereditary.
• Do not eat undercooked meat or change cat's litter box.
• Stay away from rodents that could carry viruses and disease that could harm you baby.
• Stay away from chemicals such as paint, paint thinner, etc., harmful chemicals can increase chance of birth defects.
• Get immediately help if you are suffering domestic abuse.
• Keep the stress level down.

How can Folic Acid prevent birth defects?

1. What foods are rich in Folic Acid? 
-Multi-Bran Chex Cereal
-Squash
-Raisin Bran
-Whole grains
-9 cups of orange juice

2. What can you do it you do not eat foods rich in Folic Acid?
-take supplements that contain pure Folic Acid daily

3. When should a woman begin taking Folic Acid if she is pregnant or wanting to become pregnant?
-one month before pregnancy, and if she is already pregnant take it immediately.

4. What birth defects are caused by a lack of Folic Acid?
-Down syndrome
-Gastroschisis
-Upper and lower limb reduction defects

5. Name 5 brands of cereal that have 100% of the daily recommended allowanced for Folic Acid.
 1.Wheat chex
 2. Honey toasted oat
 3. Oat Flakes and Blueberry Clusters
 4.Kellog's Meuslix
 5.Malt-o-meal mini spooners

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Chapter 1 Vocabulary

Human Development: an amazing, gradual process in which people change from birth through adulthood.
Physical Development: the changes in size, body composition, chemical make-up, and height that occur as humans develop from birth to adulthood.
Gross-motor skills: involves large muscle movements such as crawling, walking, and jumping.
Fine-motor skills: involve small muscle movements such as cutting with scissors, typing on a keyboard, and writing with a pen or pencil.
Cognition: actions or processes involving thinking and knowing.
Cognitive Development: the way people change and grow in how they think over the stages of life
Socio-emotional Development: refers to the changes in the way a person's social relationships, feelings, social skills, self-esteem, gender identity, and ways of coping with situations change over time.
Heredity: traits people are born with (genes passed down through your family's lineage)
Environment: all of a person's surroundings and the people in them
Nature versus nurture debate: the debate between genetics versus environmental influences on development (ex. the debate on wether evil can be born or only created)
Continuity: slow but steady developmental changes
Discontinuity: development spurred by sudden/abrupt changes (ex. divorce, new school, death in family)
Pedagogy: teacher or parent-directed method of learning
Andragogy: self-directed development from the earliest stages of infancy.

My First Blog in HGD

My name is Mayra Flores.
I go to Richland High School.