Question

How will you create a nutritional plan for a young, pregnant client named Anna. Teenage mothers-to-be during pregnancy require special nutritional care for themselves as well as the developing fetus. Using the internet to identify the risks of the teen as well as the risks of the infant's development.

This scenario is intended to explore differences between macronutrient and micronutrient concepts and describe their physiological functioning. Additionally, you will apply human nutritional theories and relevant research to formulate nutritional assessments and describe nutritional requirements corresponding to stages in the life span.

·        Nutritionally, what is the cause for many low birth weight babies? Discuss.

·        How might the mother's environment affect food choices for Anna?

·        Are prenatal vitamins suggested for teen mothers and why?

·        What foods, or dietary suggestions could you make to Anna to ensure that the baby gets a healthy start?

·        Can prematurity at birth be caused by inadequate nutrition of the teen mother? Explain.

Answer 1

1.The cause of low birth weight babies are quickly being uncovered. The genetic background of mother and the baby, the age of mother, her nutrition level, access to prenatal Care are main causes for low birth weight babies.

Nutrition has the huge role in maintaining mother and baby health. An adequate supply of nutrients is essential for the normal progression of healthy fetal growth and development. Low birth weight,prematurity, as well as neural tube defects and other non congenital abnormalities, have shown that nutritional status is extremely important from around the time of conception and throughout the pregnancy. Along with extra calorie requirements, pregnant women need to eat a wide variety of foods ,with a focus on vitamin and mineral intake. Women who received nutritional supplement or sufficient nutrients through diet gave a birth to healthy babies. Several factors that can help identify nutritional risk in a pregnancy include adolescence, anemia,abnormal pregnancy weight, multiple gestation ,medical illness or medication that interfere with absorption of vitamins and mineral. By screening pregnant women for these factors,nutritional risk can be identified early on and dealt with in an effective manner.

2. Factors having influence on food choices are social environment such as family, peer, and social network, physical environment include child care, food stores, macro environment such ad socio economic status,cultural norms and values.

Anne was teen mother ,it may effect her nutrition intake due to poor education, unavailability of financial support, her age , these factors may affect her nutrition choice. Because in teenage most girl use to have limited nutrition due to beauty conscious, and due to peer influence ,so Anne in teenage have effecon her food choices.

3. Prenatal vitamins and mineral are suggest for the teen mother to maintain health of mother. Nutritional problems in teenage can be manage by supplementation of vitamins and minerals. Teenager growth and development was inadequate to have a baby in that age due to poor development reproductive tract organ ,so there are many chance of miscarriage . To prevent that and to maintain good health of teen mother and to avoid premature birth and low birth weight baby prenatal vitamins and Mineral supplementation was needed.

4. Dietary suggestion was needed for teen mother for maintaining of good health and to reduce risk of premature delivery, and low birth weight of baby.

*Advice to take complete cooked foods and need to avoid partially coocked foods to avoid warm infestation. *Encourage to take clean raw vegetables like carrots and beetroots to improve iron percentage. *Advice to take iron rich food to maintain hemoglobin percentage and to avoid neural problem to baby. *Advice to take vitamin supplementation . *Encourage to take vitamin c rich foods which work as anti oxidant and improve iron absorption.

5. Poor nutrition before or during pregnancy is main risk factor for premature delivery. Due to poor nutrition, there was poor development of reproductive organs thus may leads to premature delivery of baby.