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During your pregnancy, your body needs twice as much iron than normal due to your body’s extra work load in providing additional blood for your unborn baby. And yet, more or less fifty percent of women are not getting sufficient quantities of this essential mineral during pregnancy. By eating foods …

During your pregnancy, your baby needs blood for it to survive inside you. Thus, you’ll need to stock up on the mineral iron and the vitamin folate so your body can produce hemoglobin, a substance found in red blood cells that carries oxygen throughout your body. After all, you wouldn’t …